Boris Johnson's struggle with graphs during COVID is an important reminder that good data visualisations should demand attention. theconversation.com/covid-inquiry-…

📰WORKING FROM HOME & MOBILITY DATA📰Wondering how working from home has transformed in your area? Or whether mobility data can truly replace the census? This is the paper for you 👇New paper in The Geographical Journal w/ Hamish Gibbs, James Cheshire, Alex Singleton and Mark Green👥

If you're interested in how data is used in policy and how data inequalities emerge then this event is taking place next Tuesday afternoon. Great lineup of speakers! 👇

Such and honour for Oliver Uberti and I to receive this!
Thanks to all the RSGS for their tireless efforts to promote the importance of geography!

Graffiti you'd only find in a geography dept...

Wolf 'M237' has been tracked walking nearly 2000km(!) across Europe. kora.ch/en/news/longes…
800km more than Slavc who's 1200km trek from Slovenia to Italy was my favourite story in Where the Animals Go.
👇Map of Slavc with the 🐺 populations of Europe

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Really excited to be welcoming the FT's Head of Visual and Data Journalism - Alan Smith - to UCL Social Data Institute on 9th of March!
'Making charts work - the view from the newsroom'
Sign up here:
eventbrite.com/e/making-chart…

Really excited to be welcoming the FT's Head of Visual and Data Journalism - Alan Smith - to UCL Social Data Institute on 9th of March!
'Making charts work - the view from the newsroom'
Sign up here:
eventbrite.com/e/making-chart…

Very excited to welcome Meghan Kelly today’s UCL Geography seminar series!
Asking: how do you start a conversation about feminist mapping?

This - like my office heating breaking - has become a festive tradition.

Classic “campus greening” outside my office this morning.
There’s a dead tree on the concrete where the temporary staging normally goes (I guess for Instagram) so staging is now wrecking fresh (living) turf that we’re not allowed to walk on 🙄. Why not swap them UCL Estates?

Thrilled that Atlas of the Invisible won the 'Most Entertaining Book of 2022' at the Non Obvious Book Awards 😍
nonobviousbookawards.com/2022/

I had to ask…

Very much looking forward to this data meetup at the UCL Social Data Institute on Monday December 5th. The lineup of speakers is 😍...

eventbrite.com/e/a-year-in-da…

'A geographical education has never been more relevant. None of the changes and challenges [...] can be properly understood, let alone tackled, without geography. Many of these are areas of specialism at Birkbeck' #saveBBKgeography #saveBirkbeck