Monthly Archives: May 2009

England expends

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Andrew Walkingshaw

It’ll take some scoop to depose MP expenses claims as king of the data-driven-story-of-the-year hill. With that, how could we not join in? We’ve built you a website to make it easy to browse and compare MPs’ second-home claims. As … Continue reading →

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Punctured equilibrium

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Andrew Walkingshaw

If you’re going to know about one economic statistic, more than likely the one you’ll hear about is inflation. The Office of National Statistics released this month’s inflation data this morning: over three thousand time series of how much things … Continue reading →

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Numbering stories

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Andrew Walkingshaw

If you were to ask me what the point of Timetric is… to be honest, you’d get a few different answers. It’d depend on what kind of day I was having. One of the main ones, though, is this: every … Continue reading →

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Slowly downwards: the Bank of England’s projections of the UK economy

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Andrew Walkingshaw

Every quarter, the Bank of England publishes a fan chart of how, based on the credit markets, they expect the economy to evolve. Here’s today’s: Our friend Simon Rogers of the Guardian’s Data Blog sent us an email this morning … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with a nice cup of tea?

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Andrew Walkingshaw

The Home Office released statistics on drug seizures today. About those, The Daily Mail writes: The Home Office said the figures showed they were winning the fight against drugs. But they could also be a warning that more drugs were … Continue reading →

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