Oli Hawkins
@olihawkins.com
Editorial data scientist working on computational investigations for the visual and data journalism team at the Financial Times. 🌐 olihawkins.com
Stop trying to explain what a p-value is in a single sentence (ICYMI) statsepi.substack.com/p/no-you-can...
No, you can't explain what a p-value is with one sentence (Parts I, II)
But I'm going to try and do it in as few as possible. #fml
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One of my pet peeves: People are obsessed with seeing/plotting error bars while also being confused about what they should represent. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/the-error-...
The error bar cargo cult
You don't need to understand error bars. You just need to draw them.
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I probably won't need to explain bitwise stuff for a while but I did throw together a fun toy
This is a remarkably extreme statistic. Bordeaux, France has recorded more days >40°C in 2026 than in the entire 105 year period combined dating back to 1920 when records began. This summer has been so far above extreme it’s difficult to put into words. Chart: @WxNB_
Just had Amazon properly screw up a delivery. Got an email saying the item was delivered, along with a photo of a package that is not my package, at a door that is not my door. Reported the item missing and the robot says I have to wait until Tuesday before they will do anything about it.
An extremely rare opportunity to do a few months of contract work with my team; feel free to DM me if you have any questions!
Graphics journalist, Visual and Data desk ( Contractor)
London
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I've written about the troubling, decades-long decoupling of pay & productivity growth The textbook says these should grow together, but reality - far from perfect competition - means capital has captured more of the economic fruits AI risks widening the gap Link 👉 as.ft.com/r/a188bb54-b...
It continues to be wild to me that people complain that a series of Farage scandals broken by the Sunday Times, the FT & the Guardian, as well as by independent outlets like mine, is “not covered by the MSM.” You know about the scandals because they were “exposed by the MSM”!!
He's £67 short of hitting £20K. There must be some people here who haven't seen this yet who can get this over the line! bsky.app/profile/timh... www.justgiving.com/page/tim-har...
Running the London Marathon in memory of Winnie
Help Tim Harford raise money to support Teenage Cancer Trust
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Tim Harford@timharford.ft.com · 2w agoFundraising closes tomorrow - thank you so much to everyone who donated. An amazing total, quite unbefitting a few months of training but reflective, perhaps, of what a good cause the Teenage Cancer Trust is. If you intended to donate but haven't managed yet, now's your chance!
Fundraising closes tomorrow - thank you so much to everyone who donated. An amazing total, quite unbefitting a few months of training but reflective, perhaps, of what a good cause the Teenage Cancer Trust is. If you intended to donate but haven't managed yet, now's your chance!
Tim Harford@timharford.ft.com · 3mo agoWell, it’s been a long road since I raced the dinosaurs at a New Year’s Day parkrun. I’ve managed various niggles (knee, glute, achilles… yawn).
Betting account in Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources ft.trib.al/8PXAsSa
Betting account in Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources
Deposits in Polymarket wallet came as convicted fraudster was providing gifts to Farage
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My first professional book cover design gig. Not gotten around to reading the book yet. Wish me luck
the new right makes men *undisguiseably* repellent then frames that as women's fault
By my reckoning the median latitude of the cabinet has shifted north from Wolverhampton/Leicester to betwixt Sheffield and Knowsley ...
Philip Nye@philipnye.bsky.social · 2w agoOne question that’s come up a couple of times: where do Andy Burnham’s new cabinet represent as MPs? The north west has been the big gainer, with seven cabinet ministers holding seats there – of whom, five are in Greater Manchester
What’s in a name? What meanings or information do they encode? An investigation inspired by Anna Burns’ fabulous novel Milkman and using the Irish National census of 1911 as my tool. Enjoy! #BookSky #Speirgorm
believe the data@believethedata.org · 2w ago
🚨 A deep dataviz dive into UK pay at listed firms www.ft.com/content/c49b...
You should be glad your boss is so well paid
Because it probably means you’re being paid well too
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New ↪️ ✨ : Allbirds recently pivoted its business from shoes to AI servers. Its share price spiked 860% but has plunged back down. That's a pattern repeated across many recent AI rebrands as former cancer drug and goldmining cos add buzzy AI-related terms to their names, I found
Spent the past two weeks making graphics about sweltering night-time temperatures while struggling to sleep because of those same hot nights... NEW: Tropical nights come to Europe w @attractamooney.bsky.social and @nassosstylianou.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/4929ae6c-e...
I went to Porto Montenegro to find out why so many Reform money men have businesses registered to a grubby looking office building a stone's throw from the luxury yachts on the glittering marina. Feat. me visiting my first casino. www.opendemocracy.net/inside-refor...
Inside Reform and George Cottrell’s world in Montenegro
Why are some of Britain’s most controversial Reform-linked figures all operating out of a grubby office in a town of 11,000 people in the Balkans?
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I reposted a link to this earlier and it really is a terrific article that is well worth your time. Includes comments from Guido van Rossum (Python) and Rich Harris (Svelte), among others. bsky.app/profile/saml...
Sam Learner@samlearner.bsky.social · 4w agowrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...
Absolutely essential reading about the impact of vibe coding on open source and the practice of software development generally, by @samlearner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cec8...
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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Everything I wish I knew before starting working in #dataviz Grab all my free resources and suggest more! www.tizianaalocci.com/data-visuali...
Data Visualization Resources — Tiziana Alocci
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Most people know that richer people tend to be thinner. Less appreciated is that this divide is largely driven by women. My column: The economics of women's weight 300 free clicks: as.ft.com/r/feaaaacf-8...
Python Tip #182 (of 365): Use textwrap.dedent() to unindent multi-line strings. 🧵 A multi-line string inside an indented function inherits that indentation. textwrap.dedent() strips the common leading whitespace so your output looks right. #Python #DailyPythonTip
Latest additions to this pack include the fantastic @nrennie.bsky.social , @olihawkins.com , @raydouglas.bsky.social , @amyborrett.ft.com and @joelsuss.ft.com . Please keep suggestions coming in! I'm particularly looking for anyone covering Ireland 🇮🇪.
Jack Russell@jackru.bsky.social · last mo.I've put together a starter pack of data journalists covering the UK & Ireland. Ireland coverage is very weak though - please get in touch if you know anyone I should add. go.bsky.app/EYkze8J
