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Alex Selby-Boothroyd

4 years

For the second year running, @TheEconomist data team has won a silver @malofiej award 🥈 for our 'Graphic detail' print portfolio. These are the ten pieces we submitted 🎉

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd

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10 months

New favourite chart

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23 days

Saw this video yesterday and thought nothing of it. Just watched it again with the sound on and omg

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Cannot stop thinking about this video.

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2 months

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler, search interest, past seven days

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1 year

Men *really* want to run marathons in under four hours

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2 months

Spectacularly misjudged taking my mum for a fancy 80th birthday dinner (she's 79 today)

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2 years

Children have a brutal effect on household income, except in Germany where they are kinder

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4 months

Brutal first sentence

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1 year

Wow, a lot more vasectomies in the US after the Dobbs ruling. You could say it made a... vas deferens

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4 years

Today's magic words are "rest assured I’ve conveyed the strength of local feeling to relevant colleagues"

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2 years

This is like when they say the name of the film but for logo fans

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3 years

No regrets

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1 year

@willniedmann Go to HR. This is a grave incident

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3 months

On the Windrush line they kick you off the train if you can't produce every Travelcard you bought since 1987

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3 years

People think NFTs are new but this picture fetched £53m five years ago

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3 years

Visual representation of the variable efficiency of my oven. A heatmap, if you will

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3 years

I'm guessing a lot of "substitute teachers" need a little help today

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1 year

RRR is one helluva ride

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1 year

Men also don't want to be 5'11

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd

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1 year

Happy light jacket day

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2 years

wow, they had a queue tracker for Elizabeth I?

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1 year

Hilarious. Pixies fans who use this song to wake up have been sleeping through their alarm as the "stop" gets mistaken for a voice command which cancels the alarm

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1 year

Sorry about that! ⏰📱🛑

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7 months

"I’d long been aware that when you search for news related to politics on Google, it is predominantly Left-wing publications that top the list of results." —Nadine Dorries That's not what we found

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@NadineDorries

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I Googled my name, and learnt all about Big Tech! - The Mail

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2 months

This is a fantastic lede

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3 years

The kid asked me which is the best Simpsons episode, then instantly regretted it as I started a lecture on the virtues of the heat map as a data viz technique

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1 year

Chart comes from this paper, which has this shocking finding

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2 years

I'm at a conference about data communication. How much is too much data? This lift has the answer

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3 years

Joe Biden is not messing around, signing 15 executive orders already. We're tracking the first 100 days of his presidency, and it looks like we're going to be busy

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2 months

@duncanrobinson Only good according to her (she's not on Twitter, fortunately)

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6 months

There have now been more housing ministers than Chelsea managers since 2010

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Rachel Maclean has confirmed she's out at DLUHC, meaning we'll have our 16th housing minister since 2010. Despite only lasting 279 days, Maclean served longer than the last four of her predecessors.

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5 years

'Graphic detail', @TheEconomist 's print section dedicated to data journalism, just turned one!📈🎂📉 I wrote about what we learned in our first year here:

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Totally cool that two parents earning £99,999 between them can pay 20% tax while a single parent of three on just over £50,000 pays 70% tax

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4 years

On the surface this second wave looks a lot like the first, but less testing at the start of the pandemic meant millions of infections were being missed

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1 year

This chart doesn't have a title so it's hard to know what it's showing

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9 months

Imagine owning Twitter and being owned by Twitter at the same time

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1 year

You'll never guess the revenue threshold for paying VAT

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Mr Brightside has now spent 408 weeks in the Top 100 without reaching Number 1. How did it end up like this?

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3 years

I take one week off and we've got three pie charts on the cover...

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@TheEconomist

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China and America dominate global business like never before. That should be a wake-up call for other countries. Our cover this week

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3 years

This is NUTS

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4 years

@joe_r_Odonnell @taraskaduk And they both count in binary

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1 year

This is, by some distance, the greatest stunt ever filmed

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@Jontafkasi

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd

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6 years

The death of print has been greatly exaggerated. I wrote about the launch of @TheEconomist 's new print section dedicated to data journalism here

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2 months

@GuyHardingBC Yeah, already saving up

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2 years

It's nice that they both went into catering

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd

@AlexSelbyB

1 year

More people have seen this tweet than live in the UK

Greta Thunberg

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yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy @getalife .com

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5 years

Ivy is still the most likely name according to the bookies but James is now the most-backed boy's name (it was Arthur yesterday), and there has (rightly) been some recent movement towards Alexander #royalbabywatch

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2 months

If he thinks £100,000 isn't a huge salary, wait until he sees what happens at £100,001

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@AdamBienkov

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Jeremy Hunt repeats his claim that £100,000 isn't a "huge salary" "While it might sound like a high salary.. if you've got a mortgage and you've got childcare costs it doesn't go as far as you might think".

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"Retina damage", search interest in the United States, past four hours

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@AlexSelbyB

2 years

"People are no longer worried about whether they can heat their homes, they're worried about whether they can keep their homes" - @sarahjulianotts , BBC Radio Nottingham That's the soundbite.

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd

@AlexSelbyB

4 years

Joe Biden's chance of winning the electoral college has reached a new high of 95% according to our model

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4 years

Solid comms

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd

@AlexSelbyB

2 years

The top resignation speed so far today was between 2pm and 3pm when we reached 6 MPH (ministers per hour)

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2 years

Mike breaks Free(r) Two more and I'm going to have to extend the y-axis

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4 years

Our US presidential forecast is now live! This is a huge achievement for such a small team. Congrats to @gelliottmorris for the modelling, @futuraprime and @martgnz for the amazing site and @MatterofMatt for the beautiful design. It's free to view here:

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5 years

I'm inordinately proud to work for a newspaper that dedicates so much space to #ClimateChange . A huge number of articles this week, from the cover leader to the obituary, focus on this crucial issue. Read them and weep.

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This second wave is not like the first. Using serosurveys, which look for antibodies in past blood samples, @Sondreus estimates that there were up to 150,000 infections a day in Britain in March. Our leader argues against a new national lockdown

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1 month

When do we get the Martin Shkreli-style jury selection transcript??

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@AlexSelbyB

1 year

Finished my shed

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd

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3 years

I'm thrilled to announce the launch of 'Off the Charts', a weekly newsletter dedicated to data journalism from @TheEconomist . Regular readers and non-subscribers alike can sign up below to receive the first issue next Tuesday

Off the Charts Newsletter

Taking you behind the scenes of our data journalism, directly to your inbox every Tuesday.

www.economist.com

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3 years

These maps are just two days apart

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4 years

I've been helping the kid with her maths every morning for what feels like 624 weeks, biding my time, just waiting for this moment

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2 years

This is objectively hilarious

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1 year

@alysdenby Is this from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Manufacturing Collective?

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@ZachBowders It's in the top ten of the Jurassic Park franchise

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Like many newsrooms, we had a discussion this morning about how to visualise the flight of refugees from Ukraine. Half a dozen arrows feels both too sharp and too blunt—we're talking about over 1m desperate individuals. I *really* like what @eljlees came up with

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It's time to innovate the ways we show people fleeing war. 8 arrows for 874,026 human beings is not good enough. It's also the same visual language we use for the invaders. 1/3

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4 years

Joe Biden has now won Nevada too, adding another 6 EVs to his total

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5 years

We're hiring! @TheEconomist is looking for a full-time data visualisation designer to join our data-journalism team in Central London

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I'm always in awe of the great things my colleagues come up with, but this interactive by @JamesFransham , @martgnz and @futuraprime is exceptionally good

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2 years

Nice update to this classic chart by @MatterofMatt

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2 years

Macron's map looks like an error, but it's not

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2 years

When they don't even trust you to play triangle

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@RoseStokes She's already chatting about Michelin stars 😭

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd

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4 years

As a Christmas treat🎁, we've collated all 61 of our 'Graphic detail' print articles into one chonky PDF. Link available at the bottom of today's festive daily chart:

Why friends like sloppily wrapped gifts

But mere acquaintances prefer a bit more flair

www.economist.com

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'Graphic detail', @TheEconomist 's print section dedicated to data journalism, just turned one!📈🎂📉 I wrote about what we learned in our first year here:

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1 year

@TamarHaspel Right? Fortunately, @AinslieJstone did some digging and uncovered two possible explanations: patients are more likely to have reached their insurance deductible towards the end of the year, and some men choose to recover while watching March Madness

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3 years

@MayorofLondon I like this version

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2 years

All recent advances in public perception of data visualisation, lost in time, like tears in rain

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3 years

Let's hope February lives up to its kickass layout

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2 years

The original tweet seeing the quote-tweet doing numbers

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1 year

Important data analysis

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2 months

The charts in this week's edition of @TheEconomist (right) are subtly different from previous weeks (left). Can you see what's changed?

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3 years

We're hiring! Come and join @TheEconomist 's data team for a six-month traineeship

The Economist is hiring a trainee data journalist

Come join The Economist’s data-journalism department

infographics.economist.com

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23 days

"OH GOD!! OH JESUS CHRIST!!!"

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@AlexSelbyB

3 years

Sounds pretty good, actually. Better than average

Anscombe's quartet - Sheet music for Violin, Viola, Cello

Play the music created online using Flat

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I do like a chart on the cover

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5 years

I wrote about my favourite @TheEconomist charts of the year. One won us nine pizzas, one showed how bad the last season of Scrubs really was and one drew blood

Our charts of the year

Find out what we have selected as our twelve favourite charts from 2018

www.economist.com

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5 months

I have now been at @TheEconomist for 25 years. Not bad for a two-week temp job. To celebrate, they bought me this beauty

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The kid has made a Powerpoint presentation listing the reasons why she should be allowed a sleepover. The charts are compelling

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3 years

This is the only cover idea I ever pitched. Imagine my delight when everyone gathered round my laptop to watch the Miley Cyrus video

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We're hiring! Come and help @TheEconomist create more award-winning data journalism. And if you're just starting out, we'll train you in the skills you need for a career in this exciting field

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1 year

@JakeNoseIt Wii U borked so Switch could run

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Googling "Is Google down?" is down

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Stunning work by @_rospearce on this week's Graphic Detail about air pollution in Poland

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@AlexSelbyB

4 years

Using Excel when you shouldn't does technically keep R down

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In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly. But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog. The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum.

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Respect to whoever is phoning in the subtitles for Amazon Prime

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Bit specific

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3 years

We're hiring! @TheEconomist is looking for two interactive data journalists to help bring our charts to life. If you know D3 and how to design interactives that tell a story, get in touch

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