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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)

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Whitehall Monitor

• Getting their Acts together? Legislation in the 2015-16 Parliament (Institute for Government)
• HMT had more bills per sitting day in every parliamentary session since 2010 (Institute for Government)

Everything else

• Japan: the next big quake (FT)
• Election 2016: The Race in Google Search (Google Trends)
• COMPARING POLICIES WORLDWIDE (Comparative Agendas Project)
• The Changing American Diet (Flowing Data)
• Net favorability 1976-2016. This year is a little different.(@PollsAndVotes)
• What happens when the tax credits go? (Flip Chart Fairy Tales)
• Number of retired people expected to rise sharply (swissinfo)
• How do childhood circumstances affect your chances of poverty as an adult? (ONS)

Sport

• Leicester’s incredible run: Started from the bottom, now they’re here (FT)
• Premier League 2015-16: The season that defied expectations(BBC Sport)

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Polling

• Is Traditional Polling Underselling Donald Trump’s True Strength? (The Upshot)
• What The Hell Is Going On With The EU Referendum Polls?(BuzzFeed)

Everything else

• Cities are fast-forwarding central government and doing much more with Open Data (European Data Portal)
• Cabinet Office vows greater transparency over outsourcing deals with new contracting standard (Civil Service World)
• Why the BBC should make its recipes database #opendata(Andy Dickinson)
• 5 Tips and Best Practices for Hyper-Local Data Journalism(MediaShift)
• ONS web site – urrgghh (Simon Briscoe)

And finally…

• US states and chemical elements, the Venn diagram (via in other news)
• The Market Failure of First Dates (Priceonomics, via Katie)

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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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#euref

• EU referendum results live (FT)
• EU referendum live results — tracker (The Guardian)
  
• The big issues still to be settled about Britain’s post-EU existence (FT)
• Referendums in Switzerland (Institute for Government)
• Brexit: how can the same statistics be read so differently? (Guardian Data)

Everything else

• Uber Data And Leaked Docs Provide A Look At How Much Uber Drivers Make (BuzzFeed)
• Euro 2016: BBC pundits on the new format and who has impressed them so far in France (BBC Sport)
• Apartheid’s Urban Legacy, in Striking Aerial Photographs (CityLab, via Alice)

Meta data

• History of content design in the UK government (Content Design Centre, via Daniel)
• Lessons from fact-checking the Brexit debate (Poynter)

And finally…

• Apollo 11 lunar landing told through data (Flowing Data)
• The Ultimate Crowdsourced Map of Long Distance Relationships (Atlas Obscura)
• The Weird World Of Expensive Wine (FiveThirtyEight)
• A “FED UP” MAN HAS TAKEN OUT A FULL PAGE AD IN THE METRO TO MAKE A POINT ABOUT THE EU REFERENDUM (Political Scrapbook, via Joe)

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From @ConradHackett

• Watch:
• America age
• America polarize
• Immigration to America change
• The income distribution in America shift
• Where executions happen in America
• America get fat
• The world’s largest populations change
• American gender differences by occupation over time (all via @ConradHackett)

From everywhere else

• 233 polls on UK-EU referendum, Sep 2010 until y'day.(@GoodwinMJ)
• Brexit betting odds: lesson from Scotland is not promising for Leave (The Conversation)
• Free speech: The muzzle grows tighter (The Economist)

Meta data

• Regulators fit for the future (Civil Service Quarterly)
• The trouble with big data? It’s called the ‘recency bias’ (BBC Future)
• Use your y-axis (Office for National Statistics)
• “You hoped we would sleep walk into accepting the collection of our data”: controversies surrounding the UK care.data scheme and their wider relevance for biomedical research (Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy)
• Linked data and structured journalism at the BBC (Online Journalism Blog)

And finally…

• How every Game of Thrones episode played out on Twitter(Wired - POTENTIAL SPOILERS)
• EURO 2016 - QUALIFYING STATS (Paddy Power)

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House of Commons Library on recent elections

• Wales
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland
• Local
• PCC

Everything else

• The incredible miracle in poor country development(Noahpinion)
• Annual hours worked per worker, 1950 to 2016 (Our World in Data)
• Age survey underlines pressures on Japan (FT)
• How British voters react to criticism of the political party they support (British Election Study, via @paul1kirby)
• Economists’ Views on Brexit (Ipsos MORI)
• City Footprints (Stats, Maps n Pix)
• IQ can predict your risk of death, and 8 other smart facts about intelligence (Vox)
• Jose Mourinho: Manchester United manager’s record in numbers(BBC Sport)

Meta data

• Just a quick pause (Defra Digital)
• The Co-op’s response to the Government consultation on Land Registry (Co-op Digital)
• Visualizing chess (via Alberto Cairo)

And finally…

• How London has killed off elements of local dialects across England (i100, via Josh)
• Cambridge App maps decline in regional diversity of English dialects (University of Cambridge)
• Do you say splinter, spool, smile or spell? Map (via @paul1kirby), English Dialects app tries to guess your regional accent (University of Cambridge)
  
• Does a British Person like you? (@LadyFOHF)
• Brexit Basil and Bremain Bridget – How British fictional characters might vote (YouGov)
• Venngeance (@MooseAllain)

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• The BBC’s past and future (The Economist)
• Where the Middle Class Is Shrinking (New York Times)
• Track the pulse of the US presidential race (Twitter)
• Five Charts That Show Americans Families’ Debt Crisis (Slate)
• Discontent among UK teachers drives recruitment crisis (FT Data)
• Here’s what the public think of “metro mayors” (CityMetric)

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Immigration

• EU immigration to the UK: what the National Insurance numbers reveal (Full Fact)
• EU Immigration Cover-Up Claims Dealt A Blow By UK’s Independent Statistics Agency (BuzzFeed)

Everything else

• Understanding Society May 2016: The death of polling? (Ipsos MORI)
• The PACAC experience (John Pullinger for the Civil Service blog)
• Effective data curation for big data (UK Data Service)
• GeoPlace identifies £4 return on every £1 spent on council address and street information (GeoPlace)
• Mapping The Stunning Complexity Of The World’s Shipping Routes (FastCo.Design)
• Humans Are Lousy at Predicting Rare Events. Exhibit A: Donald Trump. (The Upshot)
• Even Psychologists Respond To Meaningless Rewards: All they needed to be more open with their data was the promise of a badge showing they did it. (FiveThirtyEight)

And finally…

• Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Catalog of Beautiful Untranslatable Words from Around the World (Brain Pickings)
• An Unintended Side Effect of Transparency: Some readers are using a ProPublica database to search for doctors who freely prescribe opioid painkillers (ProPublica)
• Can You Match The Political Opinions To The Correct Part Of The UK? (BuzzFeed, via Nicola)

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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)

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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)

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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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