Fair Warning - Dirty coal, division, and dodgy charts
Hi! A reminder that I’m talking about chatbots at the European Data Journalism Conference in Malaga in July!
Happy Father’s Day to my dad (here’s him and me getting ready to watch Wales v Australia in Cardiff), the biggest Fair Warning fan, my accidental personal bank manager, occasional chauffeur service, fellow nerrrrrd, and friendly cat botherer. He’s great.
On the home front
Grenfell Tower: Hundreds of buildings still have 'unsafe' cladding — www.bbc.co.uk
Two years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, more than 300 high-rise buildings still have the same type of cladding, according to this report. I thought that it was an urgent priority to ensure that all high-rise buildings were safe and did not have flammable cladding.
So this makes me very angry.
Game of Throwns: milkshakes as political protest
How do Brits feel about public figures being milkshaked? (For those not paying attention to the British collectively losing their minds, multiple politicians have had milkshakes thrown over them this year and it’s now a Thing). Most people disapprove, but Remain/Labour voters are a bit more relaxed about it.
Divided, pessimistic, angry: survey reveals bleak mood of pre-Brexit UK
Delightfully gloomy survey results: 1) 75% say UK politics is not fit for purpose. 2) Just one in five think the next PM will be up to the job. 3) Only 58% believe we will still leave the EU.
There’s more. Please go read it, it’s cheerful…
This is the UK version of that US map of ‘the most wikipedia’d person’ that I posted in a previous FW. The most popular person where I grew up is Caroline Flack. I can’t explain it but I have an irrational hatred of Caroline Flack [waiting for Americans to go “WHO?” - you don’t want to know]. It’s Roald Dahl where I am now, which is much better.
Over the pond
The Census Question — graphics.reuters.com
This explains the census stuff better than the Washington Post thing last week - it talks you through which specific bits of the government are more reliant on census results…
Police Accountability Tool — Mapping Police Violence
This is a “police accountability tool” which shows killings by police departments. There’s a lot to take in here, but horrifying stat: 38% of people killed by the police in the 100 largest cities were black, despite only being 21% of the population in their jurisdictions.
KyleOS | The Rise of Online Dating
This is a set of visualisations showing how dating has changed over time in the US. I realise this is childish but all I’m interested in is who has more sex, and looking at the chart, it’s independents, then democrats. Well done to all of you.
Elsewhere...
Frauenstreik: Was passiert, wenn alle Schweizer Frauen streiken? — www.nzz.ch
The translation is slightly shonky but this Swiss article looks at what would happen if all women went on strike, through looking at the proportion of men and women in different jobs that keep the country running. Jobs include air traffic controllers, child carers, chefs, etc.
[To translate articles, click the little ‘G’ logo on the right hand side of the URL bar in Chrome.]
Japan is the world’s third-largest coal-importing country
Terrible. Since the Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan seems to have changed from being more reliant on nuclear, to switching back to using coal. The future energy mix projected has coal at 26%. Which is a tragedy for the environment.
Odds and ends
How The Pudding team uses Mapbox – Points of interest — blog.mapbox.com
I love this overview of how The Pudding uses Mapbox to create the awesome maps you often see right here on Fair Warning. It’s great to see what’s actually possible.
This takes you on a journey through every Billboard top 5 hit, playing the number one hit as they change around. GOD I LOVE IT. I checked out the year I was born (no jokes please) and it was WILD. Also it accidentally reminded me of (the remix of) Stutter by Joe, which is an absolute tune. And TLC. Maybe the 90s wasn’t so bad…
Killing Eve and the rise of the older screen queen
Older women are finally getting more screen time. Hooray.
It’s 2019, come on people.
Bad chart of the week
I had a corker of a bad chart lined up for this week, but I ruined it by pointing out Italy was in it twice, and he eventually deleted it and then reposted it:
No methodology, no source, no explanation of how the data was calculated or which parties are considered populist. Is it right? Is it wrong? We have no way of knowing and verifying how this data (and the conclusions from it) were arrived at.
Friends don’t let friends use data without clear sources or methodology!
Well, that was an exciting issue. Please enjoy these two cats having a conversation. I have a couple of plans for things to do with Fair Warning and Fair Warning-themed stuff which I think you will like, but I need to a) find the time; b) learn two or three new skills along the way; c) stop being lazy.
Did you know you can support Fair Warning on Patreon? Or you can simply buy me a coffee which is a one-off payment. Every time I have a coffee now I think of Fair Warning and people who have left lovely comments about it. So that’s nice.