George Willoughby
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Data journalist at The Times and Sunday Times. Views are my own ✍️ https://www.thetimes.com/profile/george-willoughby
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📈 This chart has become the favourite thing I have automated. It's clear, Donald Trump is passing an unprecedented number of orders. My colleague @tomcalver.bsky.social and I have been keeping tabs on many other metrics in this tracker piece👇

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Line chart showing how, in his second term, Donald Trump is passing an unprecedented number of orders.
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📊 Favourite bit of #dataviz is this from @narottam.dev showing how disproportionate knife crime is. For example, in London in 2023, 53% of people killed in a homicide using a knife were black, but black people make up only 13% of the capital’s population — a difference of 40 percentage points.
Dot plot showing how ethnic minorities make up a large proportion of knife crime fatalities while making up a smaller percentage of the population.
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Following the latest NHS flu figures across the Christmas period, NHS directors warn of pressure on hospitals due to spread of winter quad-demic (flu, Covid, norovirus and respiratory syncytial virus)

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⚽️ First post on here just had to be about football... fun collab with the sports desk looking at if the Premier League has become too formulaic and how the spectacle has disappeared from the game. One of the main discoveries was the death of the long ball...
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🗞️ More and more Times and Sunday Times journalists and staff are joining BlueSky.

We’ll be updating this starter kit as they do so, you should give them a follow

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