I'm on the blue site with the same handle. I have a bunch of you on there, but may have missed some

Just a word of thanks to the dedicated colleagues involved in this project - gathering, verifying and processing data, designing websites, keeping everyone informed, and providing advice. Too many to name here, but all crucial contributions.

If you're reading the Library briefing on the 2024 general election results: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief… and thinking that's marvellous, but I'd also like to see it sliced and diced by some other axis, all the same data is available as a Datasette here: …-datasette-f3e7b1b7eb77.herokuapp.com

Did you know we answer over 17,000 research requests each year? This helps MPs get reliable information for their parliamentary duties and to support their constituents. We also publish over 30 briefings a week, available to everyone on our website: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/?utm_campaign=…

My colleague Mike Benson has just published a Commons Library briefing on the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill, before its 2nd Reading on Monday. This Bill will effectively re-nationalise all the big train operating companies. 🚂 commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

New *open* UK points of interest dataset from the CDRC (which should be funded forever, great work) - over 2 million categorised POI points 👏 and released as a single, ready-to-use gpkg file 🥳 data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/point-…

Couple of thoughts on the migration stats which came out yesterday and were covered in The Times today. Most strikingly, they show a fall in applications for work visas in health and care, which is where policy was recently changed to disallow bringing dependents. (1/7)

Unfortunately, for travel from 1 October onwards, LNER are extending their 'fares trial', and discontinuing affordable/flexible/refundable Off-Peak fares on ALL their longer-distance flows.

Can never get used to the idea that this was shown as a double feature with My Neighbour Totoro

We've added new features to our Georeferenced Maps Viewer. 1. You can now filter historic map layers by date or scale. 2. You can set historic map layers as the background map. More details at: maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/he… #MapMonday

6% of trips used more than one mode of transport, and around two-thirds of these multi-modal trips started with walking (60%) and were followed by public transport modes #NationalTravelSurvey #England gov.uk/government/sta…

The census took place in March 2021 during the pandemic. For some of the questions, in particular, this means it's unhelpful to present its findings in the present tense. ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

I've just published two articles on the 2024 GE, on marginality and turnout (links below in reply). Especially happy with this chart, which shows the clear correlation between turnout and winning party. Almost all LD and Con wins were in higher-turnout seats.

Great thread.

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Data nerds! Commons Library has published General election 2024: results and analysis full briefing. It has many interesting documents - an afternoon of Excel spreadsheets awaits … commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…