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There are more than 4,500 large objects weighing 100kg or more in low Earth orbit, according to estimates.
The recent rapid increase in their numbers adds to scientists’ concerns about the risk of collisions which could create more space debris on.ft.com/3Y2TaLY
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🧵1/2 Our climate graphic looks at a recent study showing the 10% most polluting in society are responsible for almost 1/2 the annual GHG emissions behind climate change with data from , and .
Read 's report
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US police officers receive 652 hours of training on average, compared with the 3,500 hours needed to obtain a plumbing licence
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There's some great quick-turnaround graphics and cartography research and production by and in the spy ballon story today by and :
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A military intelligence ploy since the late 18th century, spy balloons endure despite the rise of satellites and drones. But should we be afraid of Chinese ones? ft.com/content/84ca85 w and amazing graphics
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Anticipating this, I’ve been shifting my news reading back to RSS feeds. It‘a been surprisingly hard: many publishers don’t support RSS anymore, having become completely dependent on social media to distribute stories. Will be interesting Twitter feeds disappear next Wek.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 
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Last week I attended the public launch of - complete the quiz and follow the link to see why it matters
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Do you know more about global trends than chimpanzees? Let’s see how you do in our quiz…
In 1990, 58% of the world's population lived in low-income countries. What is the share today?
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People are routinely more pessimistic in their world view than they would be if they understood the statistics - super-whizzy, interactive op-ed by , the FT's head of visual and data journalism
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Today we've looked at what is behind police misconduct in the US. Data analysis shows the 4th leading cause of death in encounters with police officers occurs after a traffic stop — this is what happened to Tyre Nichols ft.com/content/0ec78d
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NEW: Animated map showing the advance of Russian troops on Bakhmut since last April.
Read 's excellent report
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Thanks as always to the amazing for the data.
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Do you know what your child is doing online? Are we doing enough to protect them? I’ve made this mini drama because I don’t know the answer to these questions and we urgently need to. ‘Capture’ - who’s looking after the children? youtube.com/watch?v=6UY2HO
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🚨Job alert🚨
The team is hiring a US data journalist. Full details and application details are here:
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FT style guide change just announced: "data" is now always singular, eg "The data shows that" rather than "the data show that".
A red-letter day. I've been tiresomely banging on about this for decades. For anyone opposed, I'd like to know what your agendum is.
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The birth of a new data journalist. The wonderful debut work of Shotaro Tani. 👍🏻
US egg prices boil over as avian flu and feed costs hit supplies via
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we're hiring! the is looking for a data journalist to join our newsroom in new york:
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The state of New Mexico (population 2.6 million) is now producing more oil than the country Mexico (population 126.7 million)
Mexico is a member of Opec+ and not that long ago relied on oil revenues for a third of federal budget
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New: Our latest visual story maps the supply chains of two weapons that changed the Ukraine war to reveal the complex web of companies being tested as the US defence industry returns to a wartime footing 🇺🇸🚀👇
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Welcome to our very first edition of Datawatch (which loyal readers of the print edition will recognise at the chart of the day on the front page). This week we've looked at egg prices, the rise of independent voters, record art auctions and much more! ft.com/content/b43465
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This season’s kits feature the 's climate stripes 📊
Created by Prof Ed Hawkins, each stripe represents the yearly average temperature from 1871 (when the club was founded) to 2021
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And if you are a subscriber and want to read more about how we produce these weekly graphics, sign up for The Climate Graphic: Explained newsletter here: ft.com/content/1f5cdb
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My climate this week looks at the Arctic freeze that is sweeping across large parts of northern Asia, w/ ft.com/content/15f078
#dataviz #gistribe #cartography
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Now and are up to £6k, why not bid up lunch with other stars and to support FT-backed financial literacy charity - while u can (offer closes Jan 31) app.galabid.com/ftflicappeal/i
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EU foreign affairs chief uses chart of Urals/Brent spread in tonight’s press conference to show discount on Russian oil sales caused by western sanctions -
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FT forecasting game: Can you predict the year ahead better than superforecasters?
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⚠️🌧️ Video from #Addlestone - this is what’s causing the disruption to customers on the route via Chertsey.
It’s liquified mud that’s flowed onto the live rail and turning to steam.
Once the mud has stopped flowing we will work on getting it cleared.
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Excellent piece on UK public-sector pay by and Keith Fray.
We also showed recently that within the UK and through 2022, nurses' pay (green line) has lagged other in-demand occupations hiringlab.org/uk/blog/2023/0
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Good explainer on public sector pay here ft.com/content/fac806
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On 26 Jan 23 at our #BeatTheChimps 🐒 event in Geneva, Head of Visual and Data Journalism and the author of How Charts Work will discuss the power of visualising #HealthData. Register not to miss what is happening.
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The PM’s plans to make it compulsory to study some form of maths have divided the nation!➗My FT column today featuring and is *free to read* thanks to the FT’s financial literacy charity, and contains alarming stats: ft.com/content/647988
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👩⚕️ On 26 Jan 23 the #BeatTheChimps event in Geneva will discuss #HealthData & the power of data visualisation with (), () & ()
Find out more and register to join the conversation:
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Global weather requires global maps,
not boring local non-news on Brooklyn car parking difficulties
Beautiful reporting, Financial Times Steven Bernard + Emiliya Mychasuk
Note byline with name of cartographer!
#ddj #dataviz #GraphicDesign #maps
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Right - I did try to warn the other lot(s) but lunch with @jellison has been snapped up as an xmas gift in @ft auction for @FT_FLIC - there’s also keen interest in @khalafroula. To avoid being gazumped for others donate £10k now or raise game - Happy Xmas! app.galabid.com/ftflicappeal/i
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sneaks back in front in the race to raise money for , the 's financial literacy charity - personally I'd love to see some movement for current lantern rouge ft.com/appeal
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Not good news for China.
New study shows that once hospitalised, Omicron is no less lethal than the original strain that emerged in Wuhan.
In other words: the observed reduction in in-hospital severity seen in other countries was due to immunity, which many in China don’t have.
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Confirmation that Omicron isn't in fact milder than ancestral lineage (though milder than Delta), so apparent mildness is clearly due to immunity rather than viral evolution to be less virulent.
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