Visual Data Journalist @TheEconomist. Formerly making climate change #dataviz for @CarbonBrief. Views are my own.

Joined October 2013
Bees practice social distancing when their hive is infected with mites #dataviz with @AinslieJstone economist.com/graphic-detail…
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Even without labels you can still see where the cities are economist.com/interactive/fr…
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Explore how different groups are likely to vote in the next British election (spoiler: there's been a huge shift to Labour) Had a lot of fun building this tool with @JamesFransham and @futuraprime #BuildABritishVoter economist.com/interactive/uk…
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This chart shows how support for the Tories has ebbed away economist.com/britain/2024/0…
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This was a fascinating dataset to work with: explore who dating app users say they're willing to date vs who they actually like. With @doug_dowson economist.com/graphic-detail…
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One of those maps that you can get lost in. It uses satellite imagery originally designed to detect forest fires to map the extent of the war in Ukraine. With @Sondreus and @MatterofMatt economist.com/interactive/20…
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There is no question about the bravery of Iranian protesters. But what is less clear is how widespread the protests are, if they are still growing - and how they might end. I looked at data on tens of thousands of events to find out (charts: @_rospearce ) economist.com/graphic-detail…
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This map shows how many days of "very strong" or "extreme" heat stress each region had on average per year between 2017-22 #dataviz with @AinslieJstone economist.com/graphic-detail…
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A draft of a map we didn't have space to include. It's interesting to see how the areas experiencing "very strong" or "extreme" heat stress have expanded north 🔴 New regions in 2017-22 compared with 1980-84
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The distribution of humanity across the world is set to shift dramatically, according to the UN's population forecast. As China shrinks, India will continue to add citizens.
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The population of Europe, the world’s oldest region, is forecast to decline. Africa, the youngest region, will account for 25% of the world's population by 2050.
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It's worth remembering that these forecasts come with uncertainty. Read the full story here: economist.com/graphic-detail…
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Nearly half of Mariupol's built-up area has been damaged 🔴 since the war began. This map is so detailed that editing it was almost too much for my laptop economist.com/graphic-detail…
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Most data comes with some uncertainty, yet it looks definitive when plotted on a chart. Making this uncertainty visible is one of the trickiest aspects of #dataviz I've written a brief intro to some of our approaches @TheEconomist in our data newsletter view.e.economist.com/?qs=47a…
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The war in Ukraine has made tweets in Russian unusually glum #dataviz with @AinslieJstone economist.com/graphic-detail…
Thanks to all the graphic reporters who map what's going on in Ukraine on this sad day. 🧵 Here's a thread of their maps. My screenshots will be outdated soon, so click the links for the updated versions. If you know of other sources, add them.
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Keep thinking about this chart I drew up last week, which shows how different Omicron is to other variants economist.com/briefing/2021/…
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Had a lot of fun illustrating the (bizarre) lifecycle of the mite
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