Welcome Miguel! We're delighted to welcome Miguel Roca-Terry - our new Analytics Engineer - to the Data Orchard team. Miguel is a former data journalist for the BBC and ONS, and many more things besides. Read our Q&A to help get to know him a little better. buff.ly/gbCQzP6

Tomorrow's International Day of Clean Air... And here's a big shout out to two wonderful charities - Trees for Cities and Cool Earth. A while back, our Hannah Khwaja wrote about why we chose to support them both as part of our environmental policy and carbon reduction plan. buff.ly/fip1GoG

Curious about why I left the BBC and data journalism behind? Wrote some thoughts on my 1st Substack post which you can read for free: open.substack.com/pub/miguelro... Bear in mind I am not sure if I'll use Substack regularly before you consider subscribing. This post = experiment. Enjoy!

Excited to share that I'm moving into the non-profit space and joining @dataorchard.org.uk as an analytics engineer! Feeling grateful for the people and places I've gotten to know, across dozens of data journalism projects and stories. Time for a new adventure - Can't wait to get started!

Come and do my old job! Data journalist with the BBC Local data unit (Birmingham-based). Great opportunity to work with a brilliant team! careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Data-Jou...

🗞️ personal news update 🗞️ Landed an exciting new role in the non-profit space! Which means I'm leaving the BBC – and data journalism – behind. More information to follow... Soon ... ⏳

ICYMI: Had the pleasure & privilege of working with brilliant BBC colleagues on a story about the latest UK speeding stats. Check it out 👇🏽 www.bbc.com/news/article... @robertcuffe.bsky.social, Alex Emery, Kris Bramwell, David Verry, @rob-england-journo.bsky.social

We're only in April, but it's already the worst UK wildfire season on record Over 29,200 hectares burnt so far, fuelled by an unusually dry spring, as satellite data shows

🚨📝📊 #DataJournalism job alert! We're looking for a Senior Data Journalist to join our fabulous digital content team at the #ONS. Permanent, full-time £41,364 - £46,654 annual salary... www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Ever wondered how your station compares for train cancellations? We're ending the year by giving you the answers, comparing performance from Jan - Nov in 2024. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨New data-driven story🚨 ✍🏽 By BBC England Data & Formats Unit 🚂 NW of England saw worst train cancellation rates in Britain start of 2024. Which busiest stations in your nation/region fared the worst? 📊 Use our interactive charts to find out! Read all about it👇🏽 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great piece by Sabbiyah Pervez looking at why absence rates are so high for Irish Traveller children: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Thanks to @miguelrocadata.bsky.social for leading on the stats.

Last week, we dug into the sharp rise in young people facing homelessness when they leave the care system - up 54% since 2018-19. Zoe, one such care leaver, told us her experience left her with “this fear of owning too much in case I need to move”. t.co/5UfML5kkl8

ICYMI: 📰Harrowing story I worked on with BBC colleagues ⬇️ Young care leavers aged 18-20 in England increasingly facing homelessness since 2019: 🔢 4,300 affected by April 2024 📊 Represents a 54% increase since 2019 Read Zoe's story here 👇🏽 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our latest collaboration with the shared data unit has found the most-deprived communities in the UK were four times more likely to have lost library facilities since 2016: t.co/TfX3B0Edxo

Only one week left to apply for this #dataviz role with the ONS. Applications close midnight on Tuesday 3 September!

I realise I should post here more, so fortunately we have a story out today - countryside campaigners fear thousands of miles of footpaths could be lost: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨New story🚨 👣 The race to save thousands of footpaths across England and Wales 🗺️Council backlogs mean most requests to modify official maps are yet to be actioned Check it out 👇🏽 BBC News - Public rights of way applications backlog concerns campaigners - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Latest piece I worked on at the BBC has some fascinating stories and insights about how LGBT+ people are drawn towards minority religions. I contributed a couple of charts 📊 and crunched some numbers to help with context from a data perspective 🤓 Enjoy! 👇🏽 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

We've had a fantastic response so far to the new #ExploreLocalStatistics platform. It's still a work in progress, so please do share your comments and requests for new features! consultations.ons.gov.uk/digital-publ...

Loved working on this visual story about 2 Tone Music with colleagues from our brilliant BBC West Midlands team👇 The story anticipates a new BBC Radio WM documentary out Saturday at 2pm – Available on BBC Sounds! 🎧 45 years since 1st 2 Tone record!🤓 Enjoy! canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/2tone/

Starting my brand new job as a visual data journalist focusing on local news in a few days' time. Thought I'd check out yet another social platform 🦋 I'm particularly interested in 👇 📰 Data journalism 📊 Dataviz + Interactives 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Local England 💻 Coding + Data analysis So howdy 👋 Who to follow?