Fair Warning - The extraterrestrials are out there
Hey! It's a short issue this week as I'm already running late (who knew that volunteering to help out with a play your friend is directing would lead to four days of mayhem and minimal sleep?) Amazingly though, the show went well, and we raised £1,000 for the Brain Tumour Charity which is incredible.
No Fair Warning for the next fortnight, as I'm in New York, and then the following week I'm at NICAR. I would say it's a 'break' but it's going to be intense and I'm going to come home reinvigorated but Extremely Tired. Let me know if you want to meet up for lunch! I have heard from reliable sources that I'm... fun?
On the home front
Profiles of a divided country - Build a British voter — www.economist.com
Go play with this! It's very cool and insightful which is probably what we should all be trying to do, right?
Gender pay gap grows at hundreds of big firms
The pay gap has widened at one in four firms that have reported their figures so far. Mainly, I like the little calculator widget because it's cute and informative. The funny thing about making all companies with over 250 employees report their gender pay gap is there are really weird quirks where people just... can't seem to properly maths. So, I'm looking forward to examining the data myself later in the year.
Deaths of homeless people in England and Wales – local authority estimates
This is from ONS. Deaths rates for homeless people were nine times higher in deprived areas compared to the least deprived areas. Interesting in part because of how the statistics came about in the first place. And because it shows that there is still a gap in the data (we don't actually know how many homeless people there are and where they live, we just know when they die).
British voters are unimpressed by Theresa May’s Brexit deal - The centre cannot hold
I know it's another Economist article but hear me out: This is also interesting. "The people most likely to support [the deal] are also the least interested in politics."
Over the pond
Too Far from Jobs: Spatial Mismatch and Hourly Workers — www.urban.org
I'm doing a lot of digging into labour market data at the moment and everything is fascinating to me, so I jumped at this one. It basically does what it says on the tin and looks at
How the Upper Middle Class Is Really Doing
Come for the mind-boggling stat (and chart), and stay for the US class and income analysis.
Odds and ends
What is permafrost and why might it be the climate change time bomb? — multimedia.scmp.com
Equal parts terrifying and beautiful. The map projections are wonderful.
Because Every Country Is the Best at Something
What is your country the best at? Mine is... billionaires. America's is spam email and Australia's is cyber security incidents. So, I guess it could be worse. Nice updated infographic from David McCandless here...
Extraterrestrial life probably exists. How do we search for aliens?
National Geographic does some absolutely stunning articles sometimes. This piece is all about how we're going to find life elsewhere and make contact with it and it is...well, out of this world :) I know it's not strictly data but there are great graphics in this, we're all nerds, and this is a safe space... so I feel you won't judge me too hard for this.
A really cute little quiz by The Pudding (my favourite ever website) which tests you on your spelling knowledge of famous people's names. It's brutal, and I did terribly, but I'm a big fan of the path visualisation.
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