@BBCNews’s statistician. Number nerd 24-7-365.2425.
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Jun 1
At the BBC we pulled out interesting leads in the Mandelson doc drop using Google's AI-powered journalism assistant. Clips have deets: 1 is an intro to the docs, 2 is what we did/found.
Ofc, pretty much all the lines/leads found by expert journos - this helps the manpower.
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Apr 28
More UK deaths than births expected every year from now on
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Apr 21
More young men living at home looks a lot like a flight home after uni that mainly (but not all) fades away over the 20s.
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Apr 12
Should you go first in a penalty shoot-out?
Which lane would you choose in a 400 metre final?
And should you work on your tennis serve?
Some myths debunked in my article for AB magazine.
abmagazine.accaglobal.com/gl…
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Robert Cuffe retweeted
Our new guidance explains appropriate use of renewable energy statistics for Scotland during upcoming elections, with clarity on key measures like installed capacity, derated capacity & actual generation👇
osr.statisticsauthority.gov.…
ALT Supporting appropriate use of renewable energy in Scotland statistics during elections - a picture icon showing wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable energy types
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Mar 18
Rounding reminder - to the nearest whole number:
0.5 = 0
1.5 = 2
2.5 = 2
3.5 = 4.....
Don't @ me. @ the IEE754 and round to the nearest even number.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_7…
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Mar 18
Prompted by a q on this line in a PQ from @anthony_reuben
"Figures have been rounded to 10 for presentational purposes. Numbers ending in 5 have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systemic bias."
questions-statements.parliam…
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15 Dec 2025
40k small boat crossings so far this year is
- second highest on record
- less than half of asylum claims*
- about 5% of immigration*
*July '24 - June '25, latest figs
More on BBC's migration tracker: bit.ly/4rVv595
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10 Dec 2025
Record* life expectancy for women in the UK.
*by 0.01 years.
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27 Jun 2025
Strong 1. Civil servants made excellent technical contributions to recent UK Statistics Assembly.
26 Jun 2025
😲Govt will stop public servants speaking in public
Really bad idea
Officials add LOADS to debates, e.g. explain technical policy details
Cutting them out of debates will reduce transparency & quality of public discourse
I agree with @DrHannahWhite :
instituteforgovernment.org.u…
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24 Jun 2025
Among the new BBC guidelines taking effect in September is an expanded chapter on stats, data, polls and surveys
bbc.co.uk/editorialguideline…
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22 Apr 2025
The cyclist's illustration of Simpson's paradox
"Transport policy crafted for a non-existent average Londoner is doomed: the mean conceals a multimodal reality."
🚨A tale of two sub-regional urban zones
@NeilGarratt has written for the Greater London Project about the stark and persistent divide in car use between inner and outer London 🔗👇
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22 Apr 2025
Difference between inner and outer London v clear in this thread
x.com/thomasforth/status/191…
22 Apr 2025
But now let's add in outer London too. It's pretty much like the rest of England and Wales now. At the very lower end of car ownership at every income level, but not an outlier. So Hillingdon in London is just like Milnthorpe in Wakefield. On these two measures.
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5 Mar 2025
NHS data officer's network raises concerns about the way NHS England is rolling out its federated data platform. The idea might be sound, but the implementation is as ever getting bumpy. Thoughts?
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20 Feb 2025
The head of Amnesty International UK claims in this Guardian article that "The evidence that [predictive policing] keeps us safe just isn’t there". But that's simply not true.
Let's look at what the available evidence on predictive policing shows …
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theguardian.com/uk-news/2025…
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