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Bringing back the long s. Terrible puns on twitter; visual journalist . (Views expressed are mine alone.)

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  1. May 7

    A few months ago I wrote about how this year didn’t have much of a winter. I admit, I hadn’t considered the possibility it had simply been rescheduled for May.

    DEVELOPING: Potentially historic May snowstorm headed for the northeast US and New England. In addition to snow, 75M people will wake up to below freezing temperatures Saturday. For many cities it will be colder than it was on Christmas Day.
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    May 7

    Zoom backgrounds from the BBC Archives!

    Well this is awesome from - a bunch of zoom backgrounds. (ht )
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  3. May 6

    My made-up word of the day: “to schadenfrollow”. To follow a person on social media for the pleasure of watching them go off the deep end.

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    May 4

    📢 I'm doing a Reddit AMA on r/coronavirus this Thursday at 4pm BST! Ask me anything about visualising covid-19 data or anything else about data journalism at

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  5. May 4

    This is some incredibly promising news about malaria:

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  6. May 4

    My kid made himself a bacon and black pudding sandwich for breakfast, which I think means he gets an automatic pass on the Life in the UK test.

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    May 1

    all the usual caveats but....this seems like an enormous relief

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  8. Apr 25

    The state of Mexican food in England *is* dire, but this seems like an extreme solution.

    I am desperate to know the story of how Guadalajara came to replace Newcastle.
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    Apr 24

    Poor Americans can't afford to isolate themselves. We found that people in the richest 10% of counties were traveling about 30% less than the poorest. Our analysis suggests that the worst-off citizens are now dying from coronavirus at higher rates.

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    Apr 23

    “In the night before I laid off all 30 of my employees, I dreamed that my two children had perished, buried alive in dirt, while I dug in the wrong place, just five feet away from where they were actually smothered.” That’s just the first sentence.

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  11. Apr 23

    Hi twitter. I think I remember reading a recent academic study that surveyed people to work out what probabilities they associated with words like “likely”, “certain”, or etc. Does anyone know what I might be thinking of?

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    Apr 22

    Our excess-mortality tracker, with regularly updating interactive charts for total deaths around the world, is now in front of 's paywall, and free-to-read for everyone.

    We have made our regularly-updated excess-mortality tracker free to read. A thread👇 (1/9)
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    Apr 17

    Imagine getting the brief to write some copy on a fucking bin bag and then smashing it out of the park like this. Sensational effort.

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    Apr 18

    On this date 90 years ago, the BBC opened its nightly radio news report by telling listeners: “There is no news.”

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    Apr 16

    THREAD: From today onwards, will be tracking excess mortality from covid-19 in as many countries as possible. We have published interactive charts for six countries that have released this data. (1/14)

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  16. Apr 9

    Hey fellow nerd-parents: My first real intro to computers (age 6 or so) was HyperCard. I could draw, I could do silly animations, and (eventually) I could do some programming. What’s the equivalent today? Anything? Should I just dig out a System 6 emulator?

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    Apr 3

    Someone added the GameCube intro to my unemployment graph & it’s significantly better now.

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    Apr 6

    Data published by shows that rush hour traffic in cities in the UK and across the world has completely dropped off. It is feared that motorists are taking the chance to speed, with stretched police forces letting them off with written warnings

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  19. Mar 22

    Ok, Walthamstow, who didn’t get the message? Stop it, y’all.

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    Mar 17

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