Category Archives: Statistics

The Billion Pound o Gram

My latest visual piece for The Guardian, The Billion Pound O Gram, is a British cousin of The Billion Dollar Gram. It reveals the scale of the budget deficit in the centre of the British economy. SPOILER: It’s a big one..

Link to the Guardian piece.

Also posted in Data Journalism, Data Visualisation, Economics, Guardian Datablog, InfoVisualisation, Political, Visual Journalism |
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Is the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Safe?

Some frequent questions about the H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine answered as clearly and as visually as I could manage. A few people asked for this so I thought I would oblige.

It was hell on earth to research. There’s a jungle of science around H1N1. Very hard to hack through. You can check all my sources here.

Is the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Safe?

You can check all my sources here.

UPDATE 1: Interesting story here on how the H1N1 vaccine is made

UPDATE 2: Jan 2010: There’s now a Greek version of the H1N1 Swine Flu image. (Thanks to George Papadakis) and a Hebrew version (thanks Matty)



Also posted in De-Hyping, Disease, Health, Infographic |
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More Truth About Twitter

If The Twitter Community Were 100 People II
Revisited If Twitter Was 100 People with some interesting new data

Also posted in Data Journalism, Data Visualisation, De-Hyping, Media, News, Simple, Timelines, Web, twitter |
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