A Spatial Join Revealed 3 Million People Missing From Argentina's Official Numbers
MaxLenormand · x · 2026-09-05
- Developer Max Lenormand announced he left Fused and returned to making videos; his first project with Radiant Earth tells a wild data-engineering story.
- A spatial join accidentally revealed that 3 million people were unaccounted for in Argentina's official statistics.
- The video explains how large open datasets, new file formats, and query engines like DuckDB made this kind of massive spatial analysis feasible on a personal machine.
- Equal parts shocking statistical finding and hands-on lesson in the modern data stack.
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