cassierbarton.bsky.social
Statistician at the House of Commons Library. Housing, demography and the census. I also make a lot of dashboards but they're the good kind, I swear.
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Also interesting to attend sessions on UK-wide coherence of statistics, and the future of statistics on equalities, particularly ethnicity.
UKSA are apparently putting everything from the day into a report by February - it'll be interesting to see what comes out of all this.
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The highlight for me was the 'future of the census' session. There's clearly a lot of demand everywhere for the geographical and demographic granularity that a census provides, and concern about how an admin-based system would match this in the absence of a 2031 census.
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I had to do some googling because the name was only vaguely familiar. But now that I remember playing Samorost: thank you!!
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Not to out myself as a tumblr user, but this compilation of this sort of thing is so good www.tumblr.com/chiimeramant...
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It's also always a bit off-base because I do half my music listening on mp3s saved to my phone, like an old person. (And of course, the things I listen to there are way more sophisticated and cool than my Spotify listening. Honest.)
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But also, the whole intrusive data collection thing. I think Spotify tries to craft the perfect balance between making you feel special and making you feel Part Of Something, but it's easy to misfire. It can just feel like they're reminding me that they know my music tastes are weird!
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Every year I also show them my personal favorite data viz about bananas:
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Maybe I'm optimistic about the population's maths skills, but people like to use survey responses to signal things they approve or disapprove of, even if that's not what the question's asking!
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Not sure if this info will help or hinder your spelling
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For an embarrassingly long time, I believed archipelago was pronounced "Archie PeLAYgoe"
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I wanted to take over the Horrible Science franchise, for similar reasons
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I get these too, but each time I have to tell it that it's allowed to display images in the email before it will reveal to me what the reactions were
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This data is all stuff that's available from the census data producers (ONS, NISRA, National Records of Scotland) so I'd assume it will probably exist in APIs too. ONS call current constituencies "post-2019 Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies", for info!
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I've sent you an email!
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We'll be aiming to do it after the data for Scotland's census comes out in September (see www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/about/2022-c...), but no fixed date yet!
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The data from Scotland's census has recently been published (see www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/search-the-c... ) and our dashboard pulling it all together is likely to be out next week
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Hm, this post looks weird if you don't have all the latest emojis.
Anyway, keep track and download full datasets here (for census stuff specifically)...
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/data-tools-a...
...or start here for links to all our constituency data commonslibrary.parliament.uk/constituency...
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2021 and 2022 censuses, I should say! Plenty more census-driven dashboard updates on their way, as the programme of data releases from Scotland's 2022 census progresses
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Bilbao is great, hope you're having a good time!
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In a better world, Tumby Woodside would've made it as a major East Coast city too