Hello! Warning: Graphic Content is still on a break — at this point, the most tortured one since Ross and Rachel in Friends. But as a reward for sticking with us/forgetting to unsubscribe, I’ve written another bumper Data Policy Digest for Connected by Data. (There’s also this one from July.)…

They say you can tell how successful a freelancer is through their website — the fewer bells and whistles it has and less up to date it is, the busier the freelancer. I like to think the same might be true of how long it takes them to publish their…

Something to Digest Well hello! And thanks for bearing with me/forgetting to unsubscribe during Warning: Graphic Content’s hiatus (which continues, I’m afraid/you’ll be delighted to hear). For those of you suffering from the lack of data-related links, I thought I’d share my latest, bumper Data Policy Digest for Connected by Data. It covers…

Something stirs! Hello, dear reader! It’s been a while — I hope you’ve been well. Thanks for sticking with me (or forgetting to unsubscribe). While this newsletter is still taking a break — sorry for any false hope/scaring you it was returning — I’m contributing to a new, pop-up newsletter-blogpost-type thing you…

Farewell for a while So. This newsletter will be taking a break for a short while. Partly because I have a madly busy few weeks coming up. Partly because, having done this since 2014 with only a short break in late 2018/early 2019, I definitely need some time off. Partly because, as someone who…

Happy New Year! I hope you had a very merry Christmas and have had a great start to 2023. (Where did December go?!) My new year got off to a smashing start… I still haven’t quite got my head around the fact it’s 2023, with various bits and pieces from 2022 still to…

See you in 2023! Yes, it’s the most wonderful time of the year — when your inbox stops creaking from data-based geeking and I give you a few weeks off the newsletter for good behaviour. …

Chart attack It’s been a while since I moaned about a pie chart, so… why not? (And also, why, BBC Wales News, why?!) If you are going to use a pie, at least order it from largest to smallest to help give a better sense of which slices are bigger than others…

Contextual intercourse Whatever the subject and whatever the design, there are some things common to every Institute for Government chart: a title on navy blue, a source, and a Creative Commons logo. That may seem obvious, but you’d be surprised how often charts circulate on social media without some of that information…