Continuing the cherry blossom data alive

Continuing the cherry blossom data alive

Japanese officials and researchers have been carefully documenting when cherry blossoms bloom in Kyoto for the past 1,200 years. Yasuyuki Aono was the current record keeper, but he passed away recently with no one to take his place. For the Guardian, Chris Baraniuk reports on the search for a new keeper: “You can very much see that he planned to continue,” said Tuna Acisu, a data scientist at Our World in Data, an online platform that publishes …