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@financialtimes
. Honorary Professor
@UCLSocialData
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I won't name-and-shame the organisation responsible, but currently breaking out in a cold sweat and hyperventilating at the sight of this pie chart in a report I'm reading. 😱
For the third year in a row the
@FT
is named News Provider of the Year by our judges for its coronavirus data, landmark Wirecard investigation and punching “well beyond its niche with quality journalism which has been quite simply exemplary” across the board
#BJA2020
With
@jburnmurdoch
away,
@ollie
deputises on debut ("deput") for
@ftopinion
. The global race for supercomputing power - featuring a lesser spotted log scale
🚨Multiple job vacancies klaxon🚨 As part of our new Visual Storytelling team, we're looking for reporters and graphics journalists to join the
@ftdata
family. (1/4)
Looking for some light relief from a heavy week of Brexit shenanigans? I can offer you the yield curve played on a marimba. My latest
@FinancialTimes
Chart Doctor makeover, in conjunction with the amazing
@tomhannen
#dataviz
#sonification
First, second and third place finishes are revealing, including the role of the Brexit party in bringing down the red wall - and how the Lib Dems' push in the south came up short... great insight from
@digitalcampbell
and
@BobHaslett
A map of Atlantis 'in its prime' - My latest Chart Doctor column includes a discussion with Mark Monmonier about 'How to Lie With Maps' - followed up by
@sdbernard
talking about the evolution of cartography in the FT newsroom
NEW: today we've published the culmination of a weeks-long
@ftdata
team effort, summarising everything data has shown us about the virus over the year so far, from Wuhan to the autumn resurgence
Free to read, with a wealth of
#dataviz
on the key trends.
Well this is a first, even for
@SW_Help
- train delayed at Woking while we await another train crew, because the existing crew "don't know the way to London"
In the latest instalment of the Maptastic video series with
@tomhannen
, I spoke with
@kennethfield
about cartography in the age of coronavirus
#dataviz
Great methodological transparency in this analysis by
@jburnmurdoch
@mroliverbarnes
@JamieSmythF
on how nearly half of US winter covid hospitalisations could have been averted - R code is on GitHub
If you enjoyed my musical yield curve, join me for my first Reddit AMA on Thursday from 4pm GMT/12pm ET where I'm happy to talk
#datasonification
and
#dataviz
Love the use of animated illustration by Cecilia Reeve to open this great piece on peak coffee from Lucy Rodgers,
@carolinenevitt
Justine Williams
@Dan_Clark5
and Nian Liu
This year NYC started using ranked-choice voting in local elections. The system is not the easiest to picture; here's my attempt using a recent poll of the mayoral primary.
See
@rcvisdotcom
for more
#dataviz
@JoshuaChaffin
story
Turns out
@sdbernard
is so ridiculously talented that 'just' doing the 3d animated Blender maps and d3 charts doesn't do it for him anymore, so he got his Apple Pencil out and drew the artwork as well for this stunning piece on China's polluted skies...
@rawgraphs
now supports 'beeswarm plots' - focus on individual data points can be really powerful compared to boxplots: passenger manifest of titanic by survival/age/class of ticket
#dataviz
resource tip - if you've not signed up to the FT's new weekly newsletter "The Climate Graphic: Explained", you're missing out. Regularly explainers and insights from
@sdbernard
@digitalcampbell
and ,occasionally, me.
Also highly commended in the new Data Journalism prize category was the
@ftdata
team for its magisterial analysis of the pandemic and its progress around the globe
What to do with another lockdown Sunday? Why not apply to lead our new visual-first reporting team at the
@FinancialTimes
Closing date is Mar 11 (this is your last weekend folks!)
Fun fact: ex-basketballer
@undertheraedar
is nearly one foot taller than me.
@tomhannen
dealt with this and other filming challenges in our look at the new Atlas of Inequality