Fair Warning
By Sophie Warnes
A weekly newsletter with anywhere between 10 and 20 links about data journalism, data visualisation, and storytelling, curated by a British data journalist and nerd. Expect politics, statistics, society and culture - all through the frame of data... With a dash of whimsy. Read more about the ... Read more
A weekly newsletter with anywhere between 10 and 20 links about data journalism, data visualisation, and storytelling, curated by a British data journalist and nerd. Expect politics, statistics, society and culture - all through the frame of data... With a dash of whimsy.
Read more about the author at www.sophiewarnes.com.
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Fair Warning - Snowfall, Coffee Sales, and the Oscars
That's all for this week! Thanks for reading.
Fair Warning - Sanctions, airspace, and Wordle
That's everything I have for you this week! Thank you for reading.As expected, the war in Ukraine has taken priority over other stories. I've tried to include a wide range of angles that reporters and editors are taking, but if you saw something particularly …
Fair Warning - Infrastructure, War Fronts, and Sustainable Fashion
Thanks for reading! Have I missed any really fun stories or do you have something you want to share? Reply to this email or tweet me.
Fair Warning - Please check your spam folders!
Hello — I don't normally send random emails outside of the main edition but a few readers have got in touch and told me they didn't receive yesterday's newsletter. I just wanted to reach out and say please check your spam folders since I think it may have gon…
Fair Warning - Gendered words, duplicitous groundhogs, and declining English
The United Kingdom here, really living up to the Miserable Rainy Island nickname. Really making me glad I am stuck here.
Fair Warning - Employment, Inflation, and Fried Food
I enjoyed the novelty of this AR presentation of data about feeding and changing diapers for a newborn. It felt very Hans Rosling, and I think it's easy to get excited about but I haven't really seen an example of this kind of thing where that adds value to d…
Fair Warning - Evictions, salmonella, and palm oil
I've added this section because it's a hot topic but I also want to preface it with "Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die From Climate Change" which I thought was an excellent read.I don't think telling individuals that the future will be horrific will inspire them …
Fair Warning - Beef, Brexit, and Bivariate Choropleths
I've never heard of it before but Vizzu just launched its open source javascript library for animated data visualisations. D3 makes me want to throw my laptop out of a window, but this looks a LOT easier and the animations are quite nice. GitHub repo here if …
Fair Warning - New York, Inflation, and Bitcoin
That is everything I have for you this week! See you soon.
Fair Warning - US Census data, Chinese hell, and covid travelling
*If you're suffering with your mental health and in England — IAPT isn't in Wales, not sure about NI/Scotland — Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a way to self-refer. It kind of works outside the standard NHS process, and can take you just…
Fair Warning - Climate change, Delta, and the vaccine-hesitant
That's all I have for you today. See you next week!
Fair Warning - Jet streams, K-Pop, and the Olympics
That's everything I have for you, and I think I'm all caught up! See you next time.
Fair Warning - The Postal Service, Economic Power, and National Parks
It feels like a very quiet week, right? That's literally all I have for you, though I feel like I must be missing something! Where is all the British data journalism!? I'm always looking for stuff but if you've seen anything interesting you think I ought to i…
Fair Warning - House prices, bagels, and football
That's all I have for ya! See you next week! As always, you're welcome to get in touch by replying to this email. [Be aware I am terrible at responding. I don't know if it helps to know that me not replying is not a personal thing, but it's true.]
Fair Warning - The unvaccinated, cicadas, and Eurovision
This is a summary of my Strong Opinions about Eurovision:
Fair Warning - Internal migration, voting restrictions, and sand
That's everything I have this week! Thank you for reading.
Fair Warning - Herd immunity, mount everest, and track & trace
For some reason images haven't been pulled in for a bunch of things here so this section looks ugly and I want you to know it's not my fault.
Fair Warning - Cutting carbon, animal rescues, and The Oscars
AKA I Just Don't Know Where To Put These But I Like Them
Fair Warning - Redlining, Religion, and Readjusting
That's... unfortunately... everything I have for this week. I cannot promise a weekly newsletter anymore because... life. But I will try. I love writing this and hearing from people, even if I don't reply. See you soon :)
Fair Warning - Cannabis, Electric Cars, and Board Games
That's everything for the week! Hope you enjoyed reading, and see you on another Sunday soon :)