mark taylor

@Doctoe i was wondering whether they’d name Gojira at all. got as far as “that was Gojira”. they’re a huge cultural export!

As in reference in the commentary.

It’s ok you know to maybe reference this clear Ubisoft and video games nod as part of France’s proud cultural Heritage story…. Maybe that will come #Olympics

@sundersays sorry, i misinterpreted; i agree that would be great!

@markrt I agree that there is a policy consensus on how to ask: what I am saying is that this could be applied to what could be asked [which is not currently asked] of new MPs by the Commons authorities, in a way that would give us better and more accessible data

House of Commons Library briefing on the Election Includes the record ethnic diversity, with British Future again cited as the source of that data We are fine to analyse this as an NGO & produce the number; there could be a better way to do this too. researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-…

@sundersays the social background questions may not be in the census but there’s consensus on how to ask: #socio-economic" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gov.uk/government/pub…

It would be esp useful if there was a broad consensus on how to ask the questions (ethnicity, education, occupation, and parental occupation) so UK & devolved parliament, local authorities, parties [if choose to] could routinely collect data that was comparable over time

@thomasforth @duncanrobinson @path_dependent Cooplands is incredible for TooGoodToGo, perfect for the affluent city-dweller who loves a bargain

@duncanrobinson @path_dependent #CooplandsTraditionalist

I have learned about Gail's and I am looking forward to the discourse. Where are they? When will they open in a new place? How many constituencies have more of them than Greggs and/or Pret? Excited.

@shitbritishpics Astrongy

Professor Emeritus School of Physics and Astrongy Peter Higgs of Great Britain holds a bottle of London Pride beer after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics at a press conference at the University of Edinburgh (2013)

@DrDaveOBrien @OrianBrook yeah, it only makes sense if lower is better (yet another argument for an unambiguous legend)

@OrianBrook @markrt If I’ve read it correctly it’s “skills” using levels of qualification as the proxy, and I’ve not spotted stuff like controls for age. But I’ve only scanned it!

everyone is already dunking on this for the baffling scale (correct), but: why is Crawley (not a city) included and Carlisle (a city, about the same population) not? unfortunately there’s no alt text so i can’t find out, and as i live in the north i likely don’t have the skills

@thomasforth You might like this dashboard we built; it doesn't give you the numbers of people who can flange a lighting rig for 8k filming at the new framerate, but it does tell you how many people are SOC 3417, which includes that lot app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjo…

I'm probably more convinced by a skills density argument than a "celebs wanna stay in London" one. Getting seventeen people on short notice who can flange a lighting rig for 8k filming at the new framerate (or whatever the real terms are) is easier if they live nearby.

Why isn't somewhere like Wakefield or Crewe a good location for this film studio that Buckinghamshire have just rejected? If it was science labs I'd know the answer (and the underlying UK government subsidies to South East England that underpin it) but is it the same for films?

@slunglowalan @DrDaveOBrien what i'm here for!

@markrt @DrDaveOBrien That’s super kind of you x

I’m sure there was a time two NPO rounds ago when you couldn’t MOVE for per capita arts council England spend broken down by region? And I’ve spent half the day trying to find the figures and not a sausage. Wonder what that’s about? Where’s the argument moved to now then

@slunglowalan @DrDaveOBrien does this look right? ONS data from ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…, ACE data from artscouncil.org.uk/investment23/2…

@DrDaveOBrien @markrt Don’t toy with me Docs. Do you have the special knowledge. I’m dividing figures by Wikipedia population figures here. There’s no RIGOUR. I’m RIGOURLESS. Sell me some rigour docs. Just a bit x

@ChrisRenwick “i preferred his qual work” is an incredible hipster position

@markrt Always preferred Goldthorpe's earlier stuff etc etc

Nerdy social research in the archive question: there was once a digitised sample of the Luton Affluent Worker interviews available? These no longer seem to be on the data service website. But the Cambridge ones are. Anyone know why? Or am I just wrong?

@ChrisRenwick clueless i'm afraid, but the metadata all looks a bit odd. i've always found UKDS amazingly helpful when i've emailed them so they might be able to solve this mystery

@markrt Thanks! I found that page by Googling, which threw me because it hadn't come up via the website's search function. Any idea why they might have been decatalogued?

@ChrisRenwick ...on further clicking i can see it has been "decatalogued", which should at least reassure you that you're not going mad

@ChrisRenwick isn't it this? beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/…

@alessandro_nai incredible tweet

Some incredibly dangerous people out there

@Bensvision 🇮🇹 > 🇳🇱 in televote most surprising to me

The BetEurovision model for #eurovision 2024 What is the most surprising thing about what the computer churns out?

@p_surridge stacked? would take out a lot of the whitespace (of course introducing its own problems)

@markrt It's getting there, though I feel somehow the sankey had more impact.

This hasn't quite worked 100% - bit like a cake with a soggy middle - but it does capture that the 2019 Conservative vote is flowing in lots of different directions and that depends on the values group of the voters. Will try and improve it (X: Left-right y: Lib-Auth)

@p_surridge yeah, true. (thinking out loud) what about just bar charts in each quadrant? as the LHS of the Sankey is 100% Con

@markrt I could but then you'd lose the sense of it as a 2-d space?