Head of the Social and General Statistics team at the House of Commons Library (@commonslibrary). Personal tweets on maps, stats, dataviz & games.
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Carl Baker retweeted
Data nerds! @commonslibrary has published General election 2024: results and analysis full briefing.
It has many interesting documents - an afternoon of Excel spreadsheets awaits …
commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
Carl Baker retweeted
Are you an expert in UK finance and company law?
Apply now to join the Commons Library team as a Senior Researcher (Corporate and Finance). You can also join a virtual info session on 30 September to find out if this is the role for you.
Find out more: housesofparliament.tal.net/v…
ALT Graphic advertising job opportunities in the House of Commons Library "Senior Researcher Corporate and Finance Deadline: Sunday 6 October Come work with us!"
Carl Baker retweeted
I've just published two articles on the 2024 GE, on marginality and turnout (links below in reply).
Especially happy with this chart, which shows the clear correlation between turnout and winning party.
Almost all LD and Con wins were in higher-turnout seats.
Carl Baker retweeted
6% of trips used more than one mode of transport, and around two-thirds of these multi-modal trips started with walking (60%) and were followed by public transport modes #NationalTravelSurvey #England
gov.uk/government/statistics…
ALT 6% of trips used more than one mode of transport, and around two-thirds of these multi-modal trips started with walking (60%) and were followed by public transport modes.
Carl Baker retweeted
We've added new features to our Georeferenced Maps Viewer.
1. You can now filter historic map layers by date or scale.
2. You can set historic map layers as the background map.
More details at: maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/help… #MapMonday
ALT screenshot of Georeferenced maps viewer from National Library of Scotland
Carl Baker retweeted
Unfortunately, for travel from 1 October onwards, LNER are extending their 'fares trial', and discontinuing affordable/flexible/refundable Off-Peak fares on ALL their longer-distance flows.
@greensignallers @seatsixtyone @MartinSLewis
Alert! Alert!!
LNER have extended their "no off peak fares at all" thing to virtually their entire route from I think 30th September - thus blocking the Haymarket loophole...
Carl Baker retweeted
Couple of thoughts on the migration stats which came out yesterday and were covered in The Times today.
Most strikingly, they show a fall in applications for work visas in health and care, which is where policy was recently changed to disallow bringing dependents. (1/7)
Carl Baker retweeted
I'm on the blue site with the same handle. I have a bunch of you on there, but may have missed some
Carl Baker retweeted
New *open* UK points of interest dataset from the @CDRC_UK (which should be funded forever, great work) - over 2 million categorised POI points 👏 and released as a single, ready-to-use gpkg file 🥳
data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/poin…
Carl Baker retweeted
My colleague Mike Benson has just published a @commonslibrary briefing on the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill, before its 2nd Reading on Monday.
This Bill will effectively re-nationalise all the big train operating companies. 🚂
commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
Carl Baker retweeted
Did you know we answer over 17,000 research requests each year?
This helps MPs get reliable information for their parliamentary duties and to support their constituents.
We also publish over 30 briefings a week, available to everyone on our website: commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
Carl Baker retweeted
If you're reading the Library briefing on the 2024 general election results:
commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
and thinking that's marvellous, but I'd also like to see it sliced and diced by some other axis, all the same data is available as a @datasetteproj here:
psephology-datasette-f3e7b1b…
Carl Baker retweeted
🚨 New election research 🚨
We've just published our full results and analysis of the 2024 general election.
Explore candidate and constituency-level vote data, maps, vote shares and marginality, characteristics of elected MPs, and more: commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
Carl Baker retweeted
🚨New data for your constituency🚨
Our @commonslibrary experts have been busy updating our dashboards to show data for the new constituency boundaries.
Carl Baker retweeted
Ever wondered what happens in the Commons Library during an election?
Introduced by MD @ghillcawthorne, go behind the scenes with our new 'Meet the Library' blog series and find out how our expert teams have been preparing for the new Parliament: commonslibrary.parliament.uk…
Carl Baker retweeted
Really informative thread on what faces newly elected MPs and the steps Parliament has taken to welcome and inform them about their new role
🧵What do newly-elected MPs do to get set up in this first week in Parliament? The eagle-eyed among you may have seen new MPs receiving a white envelope from the Returning Officer after their victory was announced. Pictured is @YuanfenYang with hers. It contains a letter....1/
Carl Baker retweeted
Are 3D population density/election result spike maps necessary? No, but the the 2024 density/election map for the UK looks like this
Carl Baker retweeted
Work with me at @commonslibrary!
We're recruiting a Senior Researcher on planning and building regs. Your job will be to inform MPs of all parties on planning policy, to support legislative scrutiny and casework.
housesofparliament.tal.net/v…
Carl Baker retweeted
Half of Silverstone circuit is now in a Labour constituency (Buckingham & Bletchley), whilst the other half is still in a Conservative constituency (South Northamptonshire). #BritishGP
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A short thread on the 336 first-time MPs who will be rocking up to Westminster this week
[Link to an interactive version of this map: datawrapper.de/_/p7F5G/]
ALT A map from the Institute for Government showing the constituencies of the 336 first-time MPs elected at the 2024 general election.