Ahmad Barclay

🚨 Job alert! An opportunity to join our fantastic #datavis team at the Office for National Statistics (UK). We're hiring two Senior Data Visualisation Specialists. Salary up to £42,394, permanent. https://civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1918861

Here's a 🧵 on some of my own ONS data vis highlights...
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I joined the ONS #datavis team in this same role at the start of the #Census2021 programme in 2020, and it was a truly fantastic experience. This article for the Data Visualization Society outlines the early ideas and concepts for communicating the census... https://medium.com/nightingale/making-census-data-open-accessible-and-useful-for-real-people-f3ffb167913a
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Making Census Data Open, Accessible and Useful for Real People

This year and next are seeing 10-year national population and housing censuses taking place in scores of countries around the world (India, Brazil, Nigeria, USA, Germany, Turkey, etc.), and with…

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Experimenting with localised "robo-journalism" and #scrolltelling formats was one of my early highlights with the ONS. This piece really exemplified what we were trying to achieve at the time, and set for format for later work...
https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/dvc1371/
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Exploring local income deprivation

A detailed picture of disparities within English local authorities to a neighbourhood level

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The biggest highlight of the #Census2021 programme was probably the release of #CensusMaps, which made neighbourhood-level census data truly available to the general public for the first time...
https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps
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Census Maps - Census 2021 data interactive, ONS

Census maps is an interactive tool to explore Census 2021 data across England and Wales for different topics down to a neighbourhood level.

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Sometimes we also get to do fun projects to expand the reach of official statistics. For me #CensusMapGame was the number one highlight. It even got featured on the BBC's daily Newscast podcast...
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/articles/playthecensus2021populationmapgame/2022-06-28
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Play the Census 2021 population map game - Office for National Statistics

Higher or lower game made with Census 2021 data. Guess if the next local authority area has more or fewer residents than the previous one.

Show threadAhmad BarclayAug 13, 2024
You can find more examples of ONS
#dataviz, #datajournalism and other digital content projects on this portfolio page...
https://onsvisual.github.io/project_cairo/
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Project Cairo - The ONS Digital Content Team Portfolio

Show threadAhmad BarclayAug 13, 2024
So... If you're looking for a new role/opportunity in the #dataviz world, look no further. We're open to candidates with a wide range of experiences and backgrounds. Please don't hesitate to respond to this thread or DM me if you have any questions!
https://civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1918861
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