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Michelle Bowen
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Date Geek| Coffee Addict ☕️| Bookworm 📚| Lover of the outdoors 🦅☀️| Government Analyst| RSS Statistical Ambassador| Views my own
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We’ve partnered with the Government Statistical Service to explore the future of the stats profession

How will the role change over the next decade & what skills will make it future-ready?

We would love your thoughts on this, fill in this short form by 28 July: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
May 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Turns out, I couldn’t resist the pull of the stats palace for long!

I’m very excited to return to ONS as Head of the Data Quality Hub.

Can’t wait to get stuck in!
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May 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Spent the day at Bletchley Park, and wow, what an experience! As a statistician, seeing the birthplace of so many concepts that shaped modern analytics and AI was both eye-opening and inspiring. Can’t stop thinking about it!
February 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Our Stats Ambassador Ben Parker delves into how maths and stats can help you grab the prize pot in The Traitors 👇

www.ben-parker.co.uk?p=215
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January 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.

medium.com/nightingale/...
Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization
How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try
medium.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
A big day in the Milestones of #dataviz calendar:

📅Nov 20, 1869 Charles Joseph Minard published his iconic flow map graphic of Napoleon's March on Moscow,
some have called the best graphic ever produced.
November 20, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Awkward first post alert: Joined Bluesky because I couldn’t resist the FOMO. I heard this is where the cool kids hang out these days! Now let’s pretend I know what I am doing here!
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November 16, 2024 at 7:51 AM