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Raconteur

Your personalisation strategy needs a shake-up (Raconteur)

A piece about whether or not personalised marketing is working, for Raconteur’s Special Report on Personalisation.

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CityMetric Journalism

Which London borough has the worst pubs? (CityMetric)

Some extremely important data journalism on where to find the worst pubs in London.

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CityMetric Journalism

Here’s the longest you could get trapped in the train doors for on every London Underground line (CityMetric)

A man got stuck in the doors for a significant length of the Northern Line so I attempted to work out the longest possible you could get stuck like that on the entire tube network.

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Client Work Data Journalism/Research Data Viz

Urban Footprint (Geotab/Distilled)

For this piece I used OpenStreetMap data* to generate imagery and maps representing how much land in different cities is set aside as green space compared to how much is used for roads and buildings.

Coverage included: NBC New York, Planetizen, Boston Magazine

* supplemented by other sources where OSM was missing e.g. building footprints

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Client Work Data Journalism/Research Data Viz

Time To Commute (Geotab/Distilled)

I compiled the data and generated the maps for this piece, visualising US census information about commute times for 20 different cities to show how long different journeys into each city take, and which city’s commuters have it the worst.

Coverage included: NBC San Diego, Curbed, Star Tribune

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Journalism The Guardian

Of course the Victorians walked faster. They didn’t have Instagram and map apps (The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/30/victorians-walked-faster-map-apps-ordnance-survey

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Journalism New Statesman

The Oscars last went hostless in 1989. It ruined a man’s career (New Statesman)

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2019/02/oscars-last-went-hostless-1989-it-ruined-man-s-career

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Journalism New Statesman

The rise and fall of the point-and-click adventure game (New Statesman)

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/games/2019/01/rise-and-fall-point-and-click-adventure-game

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Client Work Copywriting Data Journalism/Research

America’s Highest Roads (Geotab/Distilled)

For this Geotab piece I wrote scripts to combine data from the US National Elevation Dataset and the US Census’s dataset of every American road, in order to identify the highest section of road in every US state. I also wrote the accompanying copy for the piece.

Coverage included: Yahoo, The Denver Channel, Matador Network

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Journalism New Statesman

“Lord of the Rings is racist about orcs” is not an important new front in the Culture War (New Statesman)

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/11/lord-rings-racist-about-orcs-not-important-new-front-culture-war