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Weird time to move jobs - but next week is my last at the @ReachData Unit as i'm starting a new position at the New Statesman Group.
Here is a brag thread of the pieces I've been most proud of during my time at the absolute unit
Here is a brag thread of the pieces I've been most proud of during my time at the absolute unit
This craigslist scrape which actually started as a project on my journalism course https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/house-23-week-rightmove-puts-12984923
This FixmyStreet scrape which uncovered a hero of hull https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-man-countrys-biggest-council-1889869
This FOI revealing serious incidents in fertility clinics goes on the list because of the argument it took to get the data https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-fertility-clinic-highest-rate-15345535
Facebook data is old hat now but this ended up on the BBC so it goes on the list https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/ben-houchens-facebook-bill-revealed-15796134
This investigation which used companies house data to find how high the glass ceiling was in Britain's boardrooms https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/women-make-up-less-quarter-15942876
A good light-hearted piece (but actually was really difficult to scrape so it goes on the list) https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/amazing-inventions-essex-people-created-2592299
This investigation found a rise in councils handing out CPNs to homeless people - had to trawl through a lot of responses so it goes on the list https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/beggars-banned-community-protection-notice-3067895
This was a solid web scrape that picked up a number of news lines across the country that had originally been missed https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/seven-surrey-companies-prosecuted-health-16640431
NHS accounts data was actually a rich vein of stories once I got my head around it - also used for for another story I did on PFI debt https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/revealed-shocking-amount-cash-north-17229621
I learned some cool spatial tricks in R to do this piece on geographical deprivation divides https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/rich-house-poor-house-greater-17088177
I had to create the model for our general election gadget, which was (to my surprise) pretty accurate after only a few seats had come in - on the list it goes https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/areas-cornwall-shut-down-fastest-3998729
A well aimed FOI https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/prescription-errors-north-east-deaths-17458703
This which made the front page of The Echo as well as generating even stronger lines for some other newsrooms - list https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/mortuary-gives-families-wrong-dead-17791729
Recently, this series of pieces for our newsrooms across the UK (adapting an idea first done by the Economist) - took a while to create the complicated R script and I had to leave my laptop on for over a week to gather the data - on the list it goes https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/areas-cornwall-shut-down-fastest-3998729
There were many more too but I am not going to make this thread any longer
You can apply for my job here - it is a good one https://jobs.reachplc.com/job-description/id/0000004717
You can apply for my job here - it is a good one https://jobs.reachplc.com/job-description/id/0000004717