11 July 2016
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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)
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#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)
Today’s email compiled by @GavinFreeguard.
