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Client Work Data Journalism/Research

The Best Day For Your Big Day (Distilled/Bloomingdale’s)

What’s the perfect day to get married on? If you live in the USA, I’ve worked it out (maybe).

I crunched data about the typical weather for each calendar date in different US cities, which was then used to power a tool to find the day with closest to ideal weather conditions for a wedding.

https://www.bloomingdales.com/b/best-wedding-dates-united-states/

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Client Work Copywriting Data Journalism/Research

Dead Men On Dollar Bills (Advisa/Distilled)

I compiled the data and wrote the words for this interactive piece about almost everyone on banknotes being a bloke.

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Client Work Data Journalism/Research

The Most Dangerous Days to Drive (Geotab/Distilled)

I crunched the US traffic data behind this piece for Geotab about the days when the most fatal accidents happen in each state.

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Client Work Copywriting Data Journalism/Research Things

The Most Dangerous Highways in America (Geotab/Distilled)

I crunched 10 years of US traffic data to provide the numbers (and copy) behind this piece about road accidents in the US.

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Client Work Data Journalism/Research

How To Win An Olivier Award (London Theatre/Distilled)

I dug into the last 4 decades of theatrical history to help compile an interactive guide to winning an Olivier Award.

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Client Work Copywriting Data Journalism/Research

Check Me Out (Yours clothing/Distilled)

I surveyed real actual people about their ideal dates to help Distilled build a quiz which purports to tell you how much of the internet you’re romantically compatible with.

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The Changing Face Of The BBC (GoCompare/Distilled)

I wrote some code to scrape samples from 80 years of BBC schedules (and then spent a lot longer manually categorising them) to help Distilled build this interactive guide to the history of the Beeb. Please forward all complaints to the BBC.

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Client Work Copywriting Data Journalism/Research Things

Ventures of the PayPal Mafia (Fleximize/Distilled)

I worked on this interactive about the sprawling reach of PayPal’s sinister techbro alumni, and it has been shortlisted for an Information Is Beautiful award, which is nice.

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(I did the Information, rather than the Beauty.)

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Client Work Copywriting Data Journalism/Research

The Careers Of The Founders (Fleximize/Distilled)

Researched and wrote the copy for an interactive infographic about the chequered pasts of company founders.