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#ToryLeadership

• Parliamentary experience of previous UK Prime Ministers upon first becoming PM (Institute for Government)
• Who, and where, are the Conservative party’s members? (FT)

#Brexit

• Hard Evidence: how areas with low immigration voted mainly for Brexit (The Conversation)
• European voters reject ‘generous deal’ with UK post-Brexit(YouGov)
• Ladders to social mobility after Brexit (Ipsos MORI)
• Explaining Brexit: Britain’s immigration paradox (The Economist)
• It’s NOT the economy, stupid: Brexit as a story of personal values (LSE British Politics and Policy)
• Harsh realities of a weakened pound (FT)

#Everything else

• The Dallas Shooting Was Among The Deadliest For Police In U.S. History (FiveThirtyEight)
• What we know about attacks on police (Vox)
• Climate Change Claims a Lake, and an Identity (New York Times)
• New USA TODAY interactive database shows Trump lawsuits surpass 4,000 (USA Today)
• Political Polarization in the US (Robert Rouse/Interworks.com, via Tableau, using Pew Center data)
• The massive scale of Australia’s election (BBC News)
• Beautiful map showing progress against malaria—and how much work we still have to do (@BillGates)

#Wimbledon

• The prize money gap between women and men in tennis is shrinking, but there is still a way to go (FT Data)
• Serena Williams Ties Graf’s Majors Record Thanks To A Remarkable Run In Her 30s (FiveThirtyEight)
• Djokovic And Federer Are Vying To Be The Greatest Of All Time(part of FiveThirtyEight’s series on tennis)

Meta data

#dataviz

• Using Charts and Graphs (1984 book by Jan V. White) - anddiscussion (Alberto Cairo, Andy Cotgreave)
• The Surprising History of the Infographic (Smithsonian)
• Link: Mona Chalabi’s Data Sketches on Instagram (Eager Eyes)
• Interview: Giorgia Lupi on Accurat and Dear Data (infogr.am)
• Creative teams draw their own conclusions on power of digital graphics (BBC Academy)
• Visualising data outdoors (BBC Academy)

Data

• We need to talk about AI and access to publicly funded data-sets (Techcrunch)
• UK Trials Blockchain-Based Social Welfare Payments (Crypto Coins News)
• DfT scoops top stats award for work on road safety (Civil Service World)
• Athletes to analysts: How big data gave the German football team a leg up (CNBC)

And finally…

• What Does Google Think Of Your Bit Of London? (Londonist, viaJosh)
• The London Underground logo through the years (Handpicked)

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#ToryLeadership

• Gover and out… #ToryLeadership now May v Leadsom(Institute for Government)
• Reminder that Theresa May will have become the longest-serving post-war Home Sec by 9 September (Institute for Government)
• We won’t be needing to update this graphic.. (Guido Fawkes, viaJosh)

#Brexit

• Punk FT — EU models for a post-Brexit UK (FT)
• Four ways the anti-immigration vote won the referendum for Brexit (New Statesman)
• The real reason the U.K. voted for Brexit? Jobs lost to Chinese competition. (Monkey Cage)

USA

• Dallas sniper shootings: When, where, and how often police are shot dead in America (Wonkblog, Washington Post)
• Police Killings of Blacks: Here Is What the Data Say (The Upshot)
• 2016 Campaign: Strong Interest, Widespread Dissatisfaction(Pew Center)
• A Portrait Of America’s Middle Class, By The Numbers (NPR)
• Here’s Everyone Who’s Immigrated to the U.S. Since 1820(Metrocosm, via Liz)

Everything else

• Number of major projects and delivery confidence of each by department, Sept 2015 (Institute for Government)
• SMARTER NOT HARDER: HOW DEVOLUTION CAN MAKE PLACES MORE PRODUCTIVE (NLGN)

Meta data

• Data access legislation and data reform (Data in government)
• Digital Economy Bill aims to make it easier for public bodies to share data and collect debt (Civil Service World)
• A viable shot at a better NHS has been killed off by privacy paranoia (Polly Toynbee, The Guardian)
• The EU referendum and the wisdom of crowds (Populus)

And finally…

• Can the beautiful game affect some beautiful baby names?(ONS)
• Extraordinary 90 day EURef betting chart on the £120m Betfair market. LEAVE wasn’t favourite till 3am on Jun 24th, and June 23rd/24th version (Mike Smithson)

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#Brexit

• Brexit Brief: options for the UK’s future trade relationship with the EU (Institute for Government)
• Simplified (Institute for Government)

Everything else

• Latest #dataviz on Shadow Cabinet & frontbench gender balance(Institute for Government)
• 10 years of tax: How cities contribute to the national exchequer(Centre for Cities)
• U Can’t Touch This: the intangible economy and the social divides behind Brexit (Nesta)
• Four gifs which show just how astonishing NASA’s successful Juno mission is (indy100)
• The size of the Chilcot Iraq report (PA)

Meta data

Caldicott Review

• Caldicott review: Review of data security, consent and opt-outs(National Data Guardian)
• Written statement: Review of health and care data security and consent (George Freeman MP, Department of Health)
• NHS care.data scheme closed after years of controversy(Wired)
• expert reaction to release of dame fiona caldicott’s report into patient data (Science Media Centre)

Everything else

• Lasers, hedgehogs and the rise of the Age of Yoghurt: reflections on #OpenDefra (Ellen Broad)
• Three lessons on city data analytics from Mike Flowers (Nesta)

And finally…

• A New Pictographic Book Examines the Way We Live Now Versus Back Then (The Eye, Slate)

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British politics

• 1st round #ToryLeadership result (Institute for Government)
• Latest #dataviz on the Shadow Cabinet (Corbynate?) and frontbench. Positions yet to be filled, 2010 intake squeezed(Institute for Government)
• Ken Clarke on @SkyNews: May has been at Home Office ‘far too long’ - she’ll be longest serving since WW2 come August (Institute for Government)
• Conservative leadership: May gets a huge headstart (Number Cruncher Politics)
• Brexit has put the UK in an impossible position. This Venn diagram explains why. (Vox)

Everything else

• So if you are on @Twitter you are mostly young and posh (look at the data) (Ben Page)
• Buying of the President 2016: Tracking TV ads in the 2016 presidential race (Center for Public Integrity)
• Conditional probability (Setosa, via in other news)
• Is Sushi ‘Healthy’? What About Granola? Where Americans and Nutritionists Disagree (The Upshot)
• Wimbledon 2016: What makes the perfect champion at SW19?(BBC Sport)

Meta data

Data sharing

• Improving government data to transform public services(Cabinet Office, DCMS)
• Government data and the Digital Economy Bill (Data in Government)
• Digital Economy Bill 2016-17 (parliament.uk)
• Government response: Better use of data in government consultation (Cabinet Office)

Data

• Leave was always in the lead: why the polls got the referendum result wrong (LSE British Politics and Policy)
• Some scepticism (Chris Hanretty)
  
• Ethical dilemmas in data science and analytics (Kaiser Fung)

#dataviz

• The Telegraph is trying to streamline soccer live blogging with an automated graphic system (Nieman Lab)
• The art and science of the scatterplot (Pew Center)

And finally…

• I’ve charted the number of Davids in cabinet since 1997, based on @instituteforgov data (David Kane)
• My favourite bit of today’s publication of the Intelligence And Security Cttee annual report (Paul Waugh)
• Difficult to see the pound forming the Dying Elephant pattern as good news (Giles Wilkes)
• Men cite themselves more than women do (Nature, via Jill)
• Charts for life (Handpicked London)

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#ToryLeadership

• Conservative leadership contests: past and present (Institute for Government)
• Our special Next Party Leader survey result. It’s a two-horse race. Activists want Leadsom v May in the final.(ConservativeHome)

#Brexit

• The 2.8 Million Non-Voters Who Delivered Brexit (Bloomberg)
• How the number of non-British EU citizens living in the UK has grown… (@ian_a_jones)
• …and here are the number of British citizens currently living elsewhere in the EU (@ian_a_jones)

Everything else

• TERRORISM IN IRAQ 2006-2015 (Datagraver)
• The stars of Question Time (Chris Hanretty)

Meta data

• An insider’s view of the state of open data in Australia (The Walkley Foundation)

And finally…

• From Pluto to the Sun: A Field Guide to the Solar System (Wall Street Journal)

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#Brexit

• Brexit: everything you wanted to know about turnout by age at the EU referendum (FT Data)
• This Map Shows Why A Pro-EU Party Might Flop At The Next General Election (BuzzFeed, via Nicole)
• An image or graph is often more powerful than a thousand words: why we need the EU (@ruw_schulze)
• Government bond yields fall to fresh record lows led by UK Gilts(FT)
• Britain remains split as 9 in ten say they would not change their referendum vote (Ipsos MORI)

Tory leadership

• Theresa May more popular than Gove even among Leave voters(YouGov)
• How MPs are breaking to leadership candidates (Chris Cook, viaJill)

Everything else

• Live Australian election results: track the votes (Guardian Australia)
• Britain divided? Public attitudes after seven years of austerity - British Social Attitudes 2016 (Nat Cen)
• How Obama went from reluctant warrior to drone champion(Washington Post)
• Infoporn: how VPN use varies by country (Wired)
• Tour de France 2016: Stage by stage (The Guardian)
• All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization (The Money Project)

Meta data

• ‘Kicking and screaming’: 50 years of FOIA (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Transparency Bulletin: A break from Brexit (FOI Directory)
• Q&A: ODI’s Nigel Shadbolt explores if Brexit is a disaster for digital (New Statesman)
• WATCH: So you want to be a data journalist? (journalism.co.uk)
• Populus published poll (Populus)

And finally…

• First world war in historic Guardian infographics (Guardian Datablog)
• The weight of Brexit: Leave vote is higher in areas of higher obesity (LSE Brexit Vote)
• Geographical Fun: A Victorian Teenage Girl’s Impressive Cartographic Caricatures of European Countries and Their National Stereotypes (Brain Pickings)
• The only statistic that matters this weekend (BBC Sport)

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#euref

• Negotiating Brexit: with whom? (Institute for Government)
• GIF (Institute for Government)
  
• Six charts on cities and the EU Referendum vote (Centre for Cities)
• An Index of Uncertainty Surges After ‘Brexit’ (The Upshot)
• The economic factors behind the vote for Brexit (FT Data)

Labour

• Current Shadow Cabinet composition (Institute for Government)
• The official list (from @SimonDanczuk, via Cath)
  
• Corbyn loses support among Labour party membership (YouGov)

Everything else

• How Polling Can Go Wrong (The Upshot)
• Euro-dependency (The Economist)
• Measuring a progressive society (The Economist)

Meta data

Land Registry

• Government pushes ahead or retreats re #privatisation of @LandRegGov… (@owenboswarva)
• Amid Brexit chaos, the government pushes ahead with plans to privatise the Land Registry (The Conversation)
• Government retreats from Land Registry sale(UKAuthority.com)
• Government signals second thoughts on Land Registry sale (Law Society Gazette)

Everything else

• A History Of Data In American Politics (Part 3): The 2016 Primaries (FiveThirtyEight)
• Statistical Consultation - development of data visualisation tool for Family Court Statistics Quarterly (Ministry of Justice)
• The open future of banking (ODI)

And finally…

• The Battle of the Somme: 141 days of horror (BBC iWonder)

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Brexit fallout

• Current Labour frontbench state of play (Institute for Government)
• Cartogram Special – Brexit (Geographical)
• The EU referendum: how did Westminster constituencies vote? (Chris Hanretty)

Everything else

• Who will win the presidency? (FiveThirtyEight)
• How it developed, visually (@atmccann)
• Why presidents have limited influence over the economy (Urban Institute)
• Data Campfire: Make Friends with Data

Meta data

• What GDS is for (Government Digital Service)
• Making Sense of Brexit – the data you need to analyse (UK Data Service)

And finally…

• This is genuinely extraordinary (@chrismoranuk, via Josh)
• How Giant, Exactly, Are All the Pop Culture Giants? In One Chart. (Slate, Browbeat)
• Dear Lionel Messi, Please (Please!) Don’t Quit Argentina (FiveThirtyEight)
• Mozilla’s new game uses emoji to teach you about encryption (Mashable)

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Institute for Government

• What Brexit means for English devolution (Institute for Government)
• Where the shadow frontbench departmental teams currently are - quite a few gaps to fill yet (Institute for Government)
• The before/after of Shadow Cabinet positions (Institute for Government)
• Oliver Letwin to head up Brexit unit - already key government player, on nearly all Cabinet committees (Institute for Government)

Everything else

• Brexit: taking stock (The Economist)
• Our Next Tory Leader survey finds May leading Johnson by just ten votes in well over a thousand (ConservativeHome)
• The housing headwind (Resolution Foundation)
• Shifting Incomes for American Jobs (Flowing Data)

Meta data

• How Transparent are Think Tanks about Who Funds Them 2016? (Transparify)
• 100 Years of Data Visualisation Best Practice tumblr(@acotgreave, via in other news)
• Defying conventions in visualization: Should time always be on the horizontal axis? (the functional art)
• #OpenDefra DataMarket – a semi-live blog post. (Defra digital)
• Remix: How Breakfast Can Help Your Students Understand Data(Mediashift)

And finally…

• How Many Republicans Marry Democrats? (FiveThirtyEight)

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• Brexit was fueled by irrational xenophobia, not real economic grievances (Vox, via Joe)
• Inequality not personalities drove Britain to Brexit (Politico)
• When Journalists Are Killed, Prosecutions Are Rare (New York Times, via Josh)
• Infoporn: the sharp decline in war deaths since 1946 (Wired)

Meta data

• Friday lunchtime lecture: Data, the citizen and the state (ODI)
• 5 ways we are putting data in the driving seat (Civil Service)
• How our Brexit model fared on election night (The Economist)

And finally…

• Lego Brexit Map (Mashable)
• The last time the pound was this weak pop music was awesome(@OilSheppard, via Josh)

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