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• A groundbreaking study has meticulously mapped out the favorite athletes across American states, with a spotlight on the NFL and NBA leagues.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231206642078/en/
  Most favorite US athletes by state (Graphic: Business Wire)
  The research by CasinoReviews.net , conducted using data from Google Trends, Ahrefs search volume, NFLPA, NBAstore, and social media platforms – X (Twitter), Instagram and Facebook, aimed to determine the most popular American athletes based on merchandise sales, search volume, and social media following.
• An interesting observation from the research was the high search volume for players like JA Morant and Kyrie Irving.
• The lead researcher commented, "Our study provides a deep dive into the preferences of Americans when it comes to their favorite athletes.

• Amberdata's comprehensive digital asset datasets and analytics now accessible via Google Cloud's Analytics Hub, allowing direct integration into models, visualization tools and more
  MIAMI, Nov. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Amberdata , a leader in digital asset data and analytics for institutional customers, today announced that its crypto market, blockchain, and DeFi datasets are now available through Google Cloud's data exchange, Analytics Hub .
• With Amberdata's comprehensive digital asset datasets now available on Analytics Hub, customers can seamlessly access and leverage this data in tandem with Google Cloud AI, ML, and analytics capabilities to drive deep insights and make more informed business decisions
  "Amberdata is excited to provide customers access to its data on Google Cloud's Analytics Hub," said Shawn Douglass, CEO, Amberdata.
• Analytics Hub is a data exchange that allows the exchange of data assets efficiently and securely across organizations to address challenges of data reliability and cost.
• Sample data for Amberdata digital asset datasets (crypto spot and derivatives market, blockchain, and DeFi data) is available today via Analytics Hub and can be accessed at no cost.

• We wanted to know which of these methods was the most reliable during the first two years of the pandemic.
• The gold standard surveillance was the Office for National Statistics (ONS) COVID survey.
• This data tracked the ONS estimates very closely, though the reported numbers were usually only about 45% of the ONS data.
• The Zoe app also tracked the ONS survey estimates closely and was a good estimate of whether infections were rising or falling.
• For COVID, the question was can wastewater testing indicate how much infection is present in the population?
• In our analysis, we found that counts in wastewater were moderately correlated with the prevalence of COVID in the population.

Useful additional insights

• Even so, the other approaches provided useful additional insights.
• NHS 111 call and website data provided useful information early in the pandemic, before other surveillance methods were established.
• Although wastewater surveillance did little to increase our understanding of the course of the pandemic in England, this surveillance method may be useful in countries that don’t have easy access to human testing.

• Our new research explores the connection between extreme weather events in Australia and public interest in climate change or global warming between 2009 and 2020.
• We found that bushfires, storms and floods tended to focus attention on climate change.
• In between extreme events, the level of interest in climate change does not appear to be increasing over time.
• Read more: Here's why climate change isn't always to blame for extreme rainfall
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  Australia has been described as “the petri-dish of climate change”.