Gavin Freeguard

BBC commentator just made the point that there are officials from seven different nations on VAR for Belgium/Canada, AS SEVEN NATION ARMY WAS PLAYING AND HE HAS NOT MADE A JOKE ABOUT IT

@davidallengreen@mastodon.green That is very kind of you (thank you!), especially after what I've just posted 🤣

For those of you lucky enough to have avoided it to date, I send a newsletter with loads of #dataviz and data-related links most Fridays called Warning: Graphic Content.

Here's this week's:
- Chart attack
- Statement of intent
- Mappy talk
- Musk we?
- Tales from the crypto

and much, much more...

https://bit.ly/WGC181122

Hello and thank you new followers! 👋

(And thank you to @davidallengreen@mastodon.green for sending you my way - David did something similar when I joined Twitter 10+ years ago!)

I will start using this properly soon, promise - just working through a busy few weeks...

Am speaking at/co-hosting this next week for anyone interested in government data https://www.thinkdataforgovernment.com/

And hosting the 36th edition of #IFGDataBites the week after https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/events/data-bites-36

We've just published the latest case study write-up in our IfG project on pandemic data sharing (with Scott Logic)

What should govt learn from GPDPR - General Practice Data for Planning & Research? https://bit.ly/IFGDataGPDPR

There's a particular focus on public engagement & trust

It's 4th in a series of 6 case studies (see also https://bit.ly/IFGDataLegislation, https://bit.ly/IFGDataCEVPS, https://bit.ly/IFGDataFraud), with a short final report to come

We'll discuss at an event on 8 Feb https://bit.ly/IFGDataSharingEvent

If you're looking for a carol service in north London this weekend...

The New Tottenham Singers (my choir!) will be singing at St Mary's Church, Tottenham, at 6pm on Saturday 17th December

Free to attend (retiring collection, refreshments afterwards)

We'll also be singing at St Jude and St Paul's (Mildmay) at 6pm on Sunday 18th, and The Antwerp Arms (Tottenham) at 7.30pm on Tuesday 20th

https://www.tottenhamsingers.com/

Sign up to our emails: https://bit.ly/NTSEmails

🚨 IT'S #IFGDATABITES WEEK 🚨

- Data Bites is the Institute for Government's monthly meet up on interesting data projects in govt

- 4 speakers each have 8 mins to present (8 bits in a byte = 8 mins in a Data Bite), followed by 8 mins of questions

- 6pm this Weds 7 Dec

- Local gov/levelling up special, supported by Palantir

Speakers are:
- Liz Zeidler, Centre for Thriving Places
- Tom Smith, DLUHC
- Ishraq Irteza, Palantir
- @chrisjpope@mastodon.world, Greater Manchester

- Come! https://bit.ly/IFGDataBites36

@getagavriloiu@techhub.social @davidallengreen@mastodon.green Thank you! 🙂

@david_durant@mastodon.social Maybe I'll just publish it on my personal account over here and make life a bit easier for myself, for once... 🤣

🚨 #IFGDATABITES KLAXON 🚨

Interested in better use of data and/or social mobility?

Join me at the Institute for Government at 6pm, next Weds 25 Jan, for a special Data Bites with the Social Mobility Commission

We'll hear from:

- Alun Francis & Michael Pandazis on SMC's new report, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-for-social-mobility-improving-the-collection-and-availability-of-data-across-government

- Anna Powell-Smith on Centre for Public Data's work on missing numbers

- Oliver Anderson on DfE's LEO dataset & post-16 education/labour market outcomes

Sign up: https://bit.ly/IFGDataBites37

The last edition of Warning: Graphic Content, my newsletter on all things data and #dataviz, for a while

I need a break - too much else to do, need some time away from it and need some space to think about how to make it sustainable

Featuring:

- Farewell for a while

- Our survey said

- Donors, kebabed

- Safety first

- Infra me, infra me, they've all got it infra me

and much, much more

https://bit.ly/WGC200123

Ease into the festive break with the New Tottenham Singers - here's our carol service at St Mary's, Tottenham, in full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg7Us-E9HHs

Have a lovely Christmas!

🚨 NEW REPORT: Legislation to support data sharing 🚨

The first of six IfG roundtable write-ups looking at what govt needs to learn from its pandemic data sharing experiences, supported by Scott Logic

https://bit.ly/IFGDataLegislation

One of the key takeaways 👇

NEW EDITION of Warning: Graphic Content

This week's #data #dataviz #ddj #datajournalism newsletter, my last of 2022:

- See you in 2023!

- While my Qatar gently weeps

- Safety first

- Stat’s the way, aha aha, I like it

- Open for the best, expecting the worst

and much, much more

https://bit.ly/WGC021222

@stickety_pooh@mstdn.social Haha - very fair point!

@pjwhite@mastodon.online Thank you 🙂

@andnew@mastodon.social Hello!