Oliver Duke-Williams
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@UCLDIS Programme Director MA/MSc Digital Humanities; Graduate Tutor @celsiusnews @UKDSCensus | Own opinions | he/him Findable by name
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Joined February 2011
🌟 ..and we're off! 🌟 'Writing apps for diff audiences' hosted by the @BritishAcademy_ ECR Network London & @UCL! Looking forward to learning & sharing tips for all #ECRs on the market, transitioning, or applying for promo! @IOE_EarlyCareer
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An unexpected diversion in this talk; Ian spoke very positively about @WalthamstowAcad which he had recently visited; I'm proud to be a school governor there
At @bspsUK conference, plenary discussion between @amrcampop and Sir Ian Diamond on future of population statistics, and Ian's career leading up to role as National Statistician #bsps
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At @bspsUK conference, plenary discussion between @amrcampop and Sir Ian Diamond on future of population statistics, and Ian's career leading up to role as National Statistician #bsps
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🪧 EVENT: All campaigns are data campaigns. If you're interested in hearing our cohort of community campaigns share their experience of working on social justice issues, how data intersects this & developing an effective campaign - join us 26/9 in London. https://t.co/uooR67N51A
connectedbydata.org
Connected by Data have spent the past 6 months working with 5 community campaigns on data, exploring different kinds of data power, and different strategies and tactics to address it. These campaigns...
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Senator Watt confirms it was a captain’s call from the government to intervene into the independent conduct of the ABS. Census prep was fully funded, and the new topics included a question exploring housing securing and cost-of-living. This was political.
Here's the transcript from Murray Watt's doorstop in Sydney today
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Dumping gender and sexuality questions from the census doesn’t make us less gay – it leaves us uninformed | New from me
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Australian democracy depends on the census. So why has it been undermined?
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🚀Join us on 26 Sept for the launch of 'Intelligent Computing for Cultural Heritage'! Hear from global experts and network over lunch/drinks. Location: IAS Common Ground, UCL🎟️Free event open to all!👉Sign up at: https://t.co/EHkcMXOHfp
#DigitalHumanities #BookLaunch
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The experience of discovering and reading this work is, to me, overwhelming. Who is Miss Lightfoot? How did she come to create such a monumental work of information design? And why have I never heard of her?
chartography.net
Frances Harriet Lightfoot's 1831 marvel
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We're delighted to announce that Steve McEachern (@stevenmce) will be taking over as our new Director this month. You can read more about Steve and his vision for the UK Data Service below 👇 https://t.co/5WVzmDYH6X
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Dr Steve McEachern, the former Director of the Australian Data Archive has joined the UK Data Service as its newly appointed Director. He...
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Vacancy: We're looking for a Senior Developer to join our team at the UK Data Archive. Deadline: 11 August https://t.co/ddMg5lkfwu
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🗨️Calling all data service users! @ESRC want to hear from you! They're running a survey to help them understand the needs of the next generation of data services beyond 2024. Deadline for responses = 30 August! ➡️ https://t.co/Oue9xMq5Ps
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Census data has been collected on veterans living in Scotland for the first time. The data will help governments, local authorities and charities to shape support for veterans and their families Find out more: https://t.co/KtJemGt7s7
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Today is World Population Day; coincidentally @camunicampop was born exactly 60 years ago! To celebrate we've launched a roughly weekly blog: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work and death since the middle ages https://t.co/xXPW04PEZv
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How can the past inform the future of the Census? @oliver_dw reflects in our latest Linking our Lives blog https://t.co/BB2nuXyF7c
@EPHDept @UCL_IEHC @drnjshelton @Franabrams
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The Reform 'phantom candidates' story seems to demonstrate that if a party wanted to field fictitious candidates it'd be fairly easy to get away with it. But: what solutions exist, and would they also rule out Count Binface et al? "Genuine fake candidates only, please"
🔴Reform’s 'phantom candidates' expose major loophole in our election law The beginning of a Byline Times/Democracy for Sale joint investigation with @josiahmortimer and @PeterKGeoghegan
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Today @NISRA published #NICensus2021 origin-destination data for #NorthernIreland The #data includes Census 2021 estimates showing the movement of people from one location to another to migrate or work. Available on the NISRA website, visit https://t.co/e7IubjMvAk
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🚨 THE NEW CABINET 🚨 The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has appointed his cabinet. This new cabinet marks a historic moment in British politics, with a record number of state-educated Ministers and the lowest proportion of privately educated Ministers since 1945 🧵👇
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Great graph in presentation by Ian Shuttleworth at #ICPG2024 - red line is knowledge (Northern Ireland census) of Irish by age - peak is at school ages - blue line is knowledge of Ulster Scots: peak is at 68. Peak for US stays at same age from 2011 to 2021 hence not cohort
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