I have officially left the UK's Office for National Statistics to join the BBC as a visual data journalist!
Delighted to meet new colleagues on our team yesterday.
New #dataviz adventures start properly on Monday 🥳
SO excited! 🤓
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Miguel Roca
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Visual data journalist @BBC | Formerly @ONS 🇬🇧 | Born & bred here & briefly in 🇪🇸 | Recovering Musician | Posts about data analysis/visualisation/storytelling with data | Own views | Free as a bird 🐦
Dan GillmorJournalists shouldn't just leave Twitter with no migration plan. They can bring along their audiences and connections if they get organized. Reupping something I posted early this year:
So, I've been reading some fascinating books by an author called Nassim Nicholas Taleb which explore how randomness and black swans (very rare, unpredictable, disproportionately impactful events) can (and should) seriously affect our understanding of the world.
Keen to understand more about these topics and how they affect our ability to tell (and show) meaningful data-driven stories.
Recommendations for further/similar reading? (Except Nate Silver's Signal & Noise, which I must read) 🤓
T. from Data RocksHey friends!
📚 Every other week, I post a review from my Data Viz Bookshelf on LinkedIn and on my blog.
Check it out!
https://www.datarocks.co.nz/linktree
This week: Data-Driven Storytelling (multiple authors)
#datafam
#datavizbookshelf
#datavisualization
#dataviz
#datastorytelling
#vissocial
I've been quiet for a long time on social but I've also been busy at work. Here are some of the fruits of my recent labour, my 1st major project for the ONS in the UK.
Very much a team effort & just to say: I didn't make the visuals here as I work more as a data journalist than a visualisation developer in my current role. Nonetheless, it's been a brilliant collaborative effort and I am proud to be part of it:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/censushealthdisabilitycare/
The geographic divide in general health, disability and unpaid care: Census 2021
Despite improvements, parts of the north of England and areas of Wales had some of the highest proportions of people who reported being in bad or very bad health, were disabled and limited a lot in their day-to-day activities, or spent many hours per week doing unpaid care. How does your area compare?
keeps vis.social runningOK, I get how so many new, and recently returned, data viz folks are enthusiastic about finding and visualizing data about mastodon.
But, maybe, it might be a good idea to actually engage with other folks on mastodon as people? At least for a while?
The whole, landing in a new place and digging for data to viz about it? Wow, just kinda a bit colonial. No?
Seriously, please unplug your broadcast a bit, and actually connect with folks here.
So, I have completed my migration across from #twitter and used a couple of tools 🔧 to help me in the process while I was waiting for my data to arrive.
Thanks to past experience with the excellent #rtweet package for #r & some basic #python scripts plugged into #tweepy -> I scraped my own timeline as an insurance policy & reset my timeline - including likes - using my developer account access. 🥸
Should I visualise my old data? 🤓
Max KennerlyNiche servers I've bookmarked to peruse. A work in progress.
Humanities:
https://masthead.social/explore
https://journa.host/explore
https://mastodon.lol/explore
https://econtwitter.net/explore
https://newsie.social/explore
https://appellate.social/explore
https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/explore
Sci / Med:
https://sciencemastodon.com/explore
https://scicomm.xyz/explore
https://mstdn.science/explore
https://med-mastodon.com/explore
https://sciences.social/explore
* https://fediscience.org/explore
InfoSec:
https://ioc.exchange/explore
https://infosec.exchange/explore
Masthead
Masthead is a Social Networking Platform. With our new features, users can wonder posts,connect with each other, post photos, videos, earn money from their content, plus live stream. Plus we have introduced MobAds, also with this your content can be monetized. Added to this , their will be a Suggestions Tab at the top of the page , if there is something that you want to see , suggest it there , and we will look at it , SuperChat is already on the top One thing we were unable to do with the previous version was to develop, that's not the case with the new version , the sky is the limit!
Feel kinda torn about #Twitter as it's generally been a positive experience for me. I eventually learnt to avoid habits like doomscrolling, morbid fascination with rage-engage controversies, algorithm driven rabbit-hole quests, etc.
It's also been great for my burgeoning career & sense of vocation as a data journalist. I've made some lovely contacts. Heck, I found my 1st full-time data journalism job there!
So I'd be sad to lose it, but I'm optimistic about a future with #mastodon 🤓
mark belan | sci illustratorHi mastodon! Introducing a new piece of work: The Composition of Blood, by me!
#infographic #blood #hematology #science #scientificillustration #sciart #dataviz #illustration #data #infographics #art #artist
