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The Billion Pound o Gram

david — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:36:46 +0000

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.

Is the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Safe?

david — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:53:04 +0000

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.

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)

Skeptical Sources: Centre Of Disease Control. Medscape, New England Journal Of Medicine, British Medical Journal, PubMed.

Explore the sources In this Google doc

More Truth About Twitter

david — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:30:13 +0000

Revisited If Twitter Was 100 People with some interesting new data

sources: Sysomos: Inside Twitter, Sysomos: Twitter’s Most Active Users, Pear Analytics Twitter Study