I wrote this for Politico Europe, but they weren’t interested after much editing about. Apparently there were too many charts. A clear statement about migration, says Theresa May of the vote for Brexit. The last thing you’ll find in the data is clarity. Or migration. There has been a wealth of efforts to understand Brexit…
Read More A clear statement about migrationEver wondered how austerity affected Brexit? Sure you did, but there’s a reason nobody made a nice chart yet. To answer the question, you’d need a breakdown of consolidated central, regional/national, and local government spending by some geography or other (parliamentary constituency, local authority, super-output area, whatever). That in turn means you’ve just constructed your…
Read More Austerity And BrexitRemember this post? I never got around to making any more maps, but Duncan Stott’s map of English identity is suddenly relevant. Interesting map of Census data showing how many people identify as 'English': pic.twitter.com/lX3mKE32Ph — Duncan Stott (@DuncanStott) September 24, 2014 I had been planning to mock Daniel Davies for being an expert on…
Read More In which data visualisation solves a practical problemSome links, with combined themes of data visualisation and rage. This is from the Economist but don’t let that put you off. I still hear people saying “well, you say the Euro is awful, but what about bedroom tax eh eh?” This is pure whataboutery. The enormity of the disaster is pointed up by the…
Read More A charts postOh yes, so the IBM ManyEyes people fixed their computer. I’ve got much more data now – I still need to do the four (key) departments that release in PDF format, and flush the existing stuff to replace the records with ones with standardised dates, but that should give you an idea. Hit the button…
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