Stats researcher for @CommonsLibrary working mostly on NHS/health and maps/geography. Personal tweets on maps, stats, dataviz & games.

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Joined March 2009
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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Replying to @Hywel_Catalyst
As far as I can tell - these are aggregations of smaller areas ('STP' and 'ICS') that the local NHS have chosen for administration of local healthcare. So because 'South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw STP' exists, the wider NE/Yorks region has to include the Bassetlaw part of Notts too
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Replying to @dougclow
I don't think I've come across anything else quite as egregious that was done on purpose as those London-segmenting school regions.
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Cautionary note when looking at vaccine data for NHS regions in England: their boundaries are sometimes different from what the names suggest. The biggest difference is "North East & Yorkshire", which extends to North Cumbria and part of Nottinghamshire, but excludes Bentham.
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Also relevant for other NHS region data, e.g. hospital admissions, of course
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A classic of the genre
Who is following lockdown rules on #COVID19?
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Carl Baker retweeted
NEW video from me & @tomhannen addressing more myths that have been used to play down Covid this winter. Featuring: • Why delays in death registration (& bad charts) wrongly led people to think there was minimal excess mortality • "Excess winter deaths" are not "excess deaths"
The FT's @jburnmurdoch explains why the UK's Covid-19 death rate is likely to rise further. Watch the full video: ft.com/video/0cd6f9f9-664e-4…
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