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How metal are Birmingham and the West Midlands, 50 years later?

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:27:38 +0000

A data investigation into Birmingham’s and the West Midlands’ heavy metal scene. The story: https://birminghameastside.com/the-west-midlands-gave-birth-to-heavy-metal-but-50-years-on-how-metal-is-the-region-now/ The GitHub repo for the web scrapers: https://github.com/datacarvel/Brum-Rock

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Scientific journals are (still) getting (more) expensive (than ever) – but the UK has an opportunity to make a statement

Tue, 29 May 2018 11:19:17 +0000

For quite a while now I have been submitting and managing Freedom of Information requests to more than a hundred universities in the United Kingdom. While the issue around ever-skyrocketing costs of scholarly journals subscriptions isn’t news, I wanted to see whether, since the topic went in the mainstream, the awareness around it had any… Continue reading

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Mapped: Birmingham’s council elections 2018 results

Fri, 04 May 2018 23:02:06 +0000

Electoral party results! See the Birmingham Eastside story here. See the map and infographic below: Bham 2018Infogram

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Election map: Birmingham’s new districts on top of former ones, with their past results

Fri, 04 May 2018 22:58:47 +0000

A screenshot of the interactive map, which you can find in the links below. Ahead of today’s upcoming results (and previously published elsewhere), here is a map of the new wards over the former ones with their past electoral results (winning party). See the story here for the Birmingham Eastside and here for Birmingham Live!… Continue reading

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Don’t believe the bus: See how Brexit is plaguing the NHS – Explainer

Sun, 29 Apr 2018 09:01:55 +0000

As time progresses, it is less and less likely that the Leave voters of 2016 will ever see the fruits of their vote if they had in mind that promise of extra weekly money for the NHS in millions. Despite the widely publicised economy of £350 million a week that was promised for the NHS,… Continue reading

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These are the football clubs that have been fined for underpaying employees

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:37:42 +0000

Birmingham City FC has been fined for breaking national minimum wage laws, newly released data reveals. The local club is part of a group of four that have been identified in the latest analysis by the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The three others are St Helens RFC, Stoke City FC and Yeovil… Continue reading

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In the UK, data journalism and investigations are getting more local

Sat, 23 Dec 2017 17:13:25 +0000

I was fortunate enough to attend Data Journalism UK 2017, the event’s second edition. The conference was held at the BBC in Birmingham. Among other things, a significant insight was that data and investigative journalism are now much more interested in local stories than ever before. Typically, ground-breaking investigations and data stories are developed with… Continue reading

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