During the 1911 UK census, one James Edward Kitchen-Island listed the following infirmities of his children: ‘absent mindedness’, ‘argumentative’, and ‘powerful ugliness’

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For those interested in such things, here https://github.com/anisotropi4/nuthatch is a project to download and project GB 2021 census data onto a scaled set of layered hexagons

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For those interested in such things, here https://github.com/anisotropi4/nuthatch is a project to download and project GB 2021 census data onto a scaled set of layered hexagons

#UKCensus #Census2021 #population #hexagon #DataVisualisation

These maps are things of beauty!

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https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps?oa=E00013790

The headline on this piece is potentially misleading, because it implies Christianity is a 'minority' religion.

Christianity is by far the largest UK religious group at 46.2% of the population (a stat bizarrely not mentioned in the article).

The 'minority' issue stems from rising numbers identifying as "no religion", 37.2%.

The 2nd biggest 'religion' is Islam at 6.5%.

Headline writers need to be much more sensitive when framing stories like this.

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/29/leicester-and-birmingham-are-uk-first-minority-majority-cities-census-reveals

"People who said they had no religion increased by 12 percentage points, while the number of people identifying as Muslim increased by 1.2 million."

That '12 percentage points' equates to 6 million people, but which sounds like more?

How hard would it be to let readers easily compare like with like?

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