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
Carl Baker retweeted
Men are more likely to be overweight or obese than women in most age groups in England. Excess weight has been associated with increased risk of serious illness and death from #COVID19. Read our briefing for more info and stats on obesity across the UK: ow.ly/jahT50D79pQ
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Carl Baker retweeted
Ever wondered what your #UK neighbourhood looked like 100+ years ago? Here's a little interactive map that will help you find out... Have fun! bothness.github.io/ons-basem…
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Carl Baker retweeted
And here's the latest cartogram showing which small areas of England and Wales had the highest COVID-19 case rates in the week ending 6th January. Each hexagon⬢ represents an MSOA with a population of around 7k-10k. Areas are grouped into counties etc. 2/
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Carl Baker retweeted
COVID-19 rates rose in two-thirds of England's small areas in the week to 6th Jan. But some falls in London/SE. On this map, each arrow is an MSOA with a population of 7-10k. Green shows a fall since last week and purple shows a rise. Larger arrows show bigger rises/falls. 1/
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Carl Baker retweeted
Some posts on social media have falsely claimed that just 13,844 people in England and Wales caught Covid-19 last year. This comes from a misreading of official statistics. The true number is several million. fullfact.org/health/noids-co…
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3/ You can download high resolution versions of these images, including labels for each local authority area, on google drive at these links: 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1Y6O… 2. drive.google.com/file/d/1LmZ…
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The size of the "increasing" arrows maxes out at +500 cases per 100k population. The uniformity of the arrows in e.g. Merseyside and IoW shows that almost all MSOAs had weekly increases above +500 ☹️ In hindsight the max arrow length should have been higher than +500 this week.
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