Head of the Social and General Statistics team at the House of Commons Library (@commonslibrary). Personal tweets on maps, stats, dataviz & games.
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26 Nov 2020
New: I've published the geographical templates behind the UK cartogram maps shared here recently.
There are four geopackage files for MSOAs, local authorities (both lower-tier and upper-tier), and constituencies.
All on the @commonslibrary github here:
github.com/houseofcommonslib…
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Data nerds! @commonslibrary has published General election 2024: results and analysis full briefing.
It has many interesting documents - an afternoon of Excel spreadsheets awaits …
commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
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Carl Baker retweeted
26 Sep 2024
Are you an expert in UK finance and company law?
Apply now to join the Commons Library team as a Senior Researcher (Corporate and Finance). You can also join a virtual info session on 30 September to find out if this is the role for you.
Find out more: housesofparliament.tal.net/v…
ALT Graphic advertising job opportunities in the House of Commons Library "Senior Researcher Corporate and Finance Deadline: Sunday 6 October Come work with us!"
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Carl Baker retweeted
6 Sep 2024
I've just published two articles on the 2024 GE, on marginality and turnout (links below in reply).
Especially happy with this chart, which shows the clear correlation between turnout and winning party.
Almost all LD and Con wins were in higher-turnout seats.
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4 Sep 2024
The census took place in March 2021 during the pandemic. For some of the questions, in particular, this means it's unhelpful to present its findings in the present tense. ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabo…
4 Sep 2024
Working from home is heavily concentrated in the SE and London, Inner London especially. Interestingly this suggests that many people are paying a lot to live in central London despite not needing to do so for length-of-commute reasons.
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6% of trips used more than one mode of transport, and around two-thirds of these multi-modal trips started with walking (60%) and were followed by public transport modes #NationalTravelSurvey #England
gov.uk/government/statistics…
ALT 6% of trips used more than one mode of transport, and around two-thirds of these multi-modal trips started with walking (60%) and were followed by public transport modes.
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Carl Baker retweeted
26 Aug 2024
We've added new features to our Georeferenced Maps Viewer.
1. You can now filter historic map layers by date or scale.
2. You can set historic map layers as the background map.
More details at: maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/help… #MapMonday
ALT screenshot of Georeferenced maps viewer from National Library of Scotland
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20 Aug 2024
Can never get used to the idea that this was shown as a double feature with My Neighbour Totoro
Grave of the Fireflies, a Studio Ghibli classic, is coming to Netflix on September 16.
Based on Akiyuki Nosaka's short story and directed by Isao Takahata, orphaned siblings Seita and Setsuko fight for survival amidst the devastation in post-war Japan.
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Carl Baker retweeted
20 Aug 2024
Unfortunately, for travel from 1 October onwards, LNER are extending their 'fares trial', and discontinuing affordable/flexible/refundable Off-Peak fares on ALL their longer-distance flows.
20 Aug 2024
@greensignallers @seatsixtyone @MartinSLewis
Alert! Alert!!
LNER have extended their "no off peak fares at all" thing to virtually their entire route from I think 30th September - thus blocking the Haymarket loophole...
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Carl Baker retweeted
9 Aug 2024
Couple of thoughts on the migration stats which came out yesterday and were covered in The Times today.
Most strikingly, they show a fall in applications for work visas in health and care, which is where policy was recently changed to disallow bringing dependents. (1/7)
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Carl Baker retweeted
9 May 2024
I'm on the blue site with the same handle. I have a bunch of you on there, but may have missed some
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Carl Baker retweeted
1 Aug 2024
New *open* UK points of interest dataset from the @CDRC_UK (which should be funded forever, great work) - over 2 million categorised POI points 👏 and released as a single, ready-to-use gpkg file 🥳
data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/poin…
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26 Jul 2024
We've published a few updates and corrections in to our GE2024 dataset - and a file documenting what has changed.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
18 Jul 2024
We have election data! Full datasets with constituency and candidate-level vote shares, electorates, etc are now attached to our @commonslibrary briefing: commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
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26 Jul 2024
Thanks to diligent correspondents who notified us of discrepancies with updated local authority records.
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Carl Baker retweeted
25 Jul 2024
My colleague Mike Benson has just published a @commonslibrary briefing on the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill, before its 2nd Reading on Monday.
This Bill will effectively re-nationalise all the big train operating companies. 🚂
commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
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Carl Baker retweeted
22 Jul 2024
Did you know we answer over 17,000 research requests each year?
This helps MPs get reliable information for their parliamentary duties and to support their constituents.
We also publish over 30 briefings a week, available to everyone on our website: commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
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Carl Baker retweeted
19 Jul 2024
If you're reading the Library briefing on the 2024 general election results:
commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
and thinking that's marvellous, but I'd also like to see it sliced and diced by some other axis, all the same data is available as a @datasetteproj here:
psephology-datasette-f3e7b1b…
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19 Jul 2024
Just a word of thanks to the dedicated colleagues involved in this project - gathering, verifying and processing data, designing websites, keeping everyone informed, and providing advice. Too many to name here, but all crucial contributions.
18 Jul 2024
We have election data! Full datasets with constituency and candidate-level vote shares, electorates, etc are now attached to our @commonslibrary briefing: commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
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18 Jul 2024
We have election data! Full datasets with constituency and candidate-level vote shares, electorates, etc are now attached to our @commonslibrary briefing: commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
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18 Jul 2024
You can also browse the data on our election results website (which also has data for other elections back to 2010): electionresults.parliament.u…
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18 Jul 2024
Since election day we've been collating and verifying the local authority declarations showing votes, electorates, etc. We finally received the last confirmed declaration this morning.
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