Great to get this award nomination for my covid reporting for The Economist’s 1843 magazine The Economist and thanks to my editors Jonathan Beckman and Rosie Blau for their hard work on the pieces. Likewise Jo Metson Scott for her haunting photography.

Dear Gareth Southgate: you used your platform to elegant effect here. But it was pretty abstract. I hope you and your brilliant players will tell England fans unequivocally to have fun, respect the opponents and hug their fans after the game—win or lose. theplayerstribune.com/posts/dear-eng…

Congrats in particular to Martín González Gómez, who came up with the brilliant visualisations and has endured months of irregularly timed GitHub and text updates from me. And also big thanks to Ariel Karlinsky Dmitry Kobak Lasse S. Vestergaard Thais Carrança Laurianne Despeghel Karen Gil for data.

Of all the brilliant Always Take Notes interviews, I think this episode might be my favourite - a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of sports journalism

What is the pandemic's true death toll? After months of work, we are launching our daily updating estimate of excess deaths around the world. With official deaths at 4.5m, I estimate the true tally to be between 9.3m and 18.1m, as of today

Expected Points (xP) has arrived in rugby union (and in BKT United Rugby Championship (URC) for public consumption). Here's an interview with James Tozer and Gordon H-F, who have developed and rolled out a system that is already changing the game in numerous ways. telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

Weekly pandemic update (a thread):

We're hiring! Come and join The Economist's data team for a six-month traineeship infographics.economist.com/2021/job-data-…

Very happy to say that The Economist's Data team has launched an open "call for papers" for #research on any topic. We are looking for exciting and important new studies - if that sounds like your work, please send it to us economist.com/graphic-detail…

Press Gazette Creative Diversity Network Honoured to have my work on "The pandemic's true death toll" shortlisted for "Innovation of the year"! Thanks to all who helped make this project happen.

For this week's issue of The Economist, I had a look at a gigantic multi-year experiment run by @Twitter. (If you are reading this, you probably participated.)

One month ago, we called on researchers to send us their best work. Today, I'm happy to say that an The Economist is featuring a "call for papers" submission for the first time: a fascinating study of "wolves’ passports", "enemies of the people", and skills of former prisoners.

Really enjoyed writing this piece as part of the team behind the BKT United Rugby Championship (URC) Stats Master Fascinating to look at how Edinburgh Rugby have used their back row to take top spot this season. Enjoy!!!

“Devoting a little budget to analytics can save millions on wasted salary” | Exclusive - When Steve Borthwick agreed to join Tigers, he enlisted James Tozer and Oval Insights to rebuild the squad using xP models. Leicester’s turnaround is a Moneyball story. telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

Amazing!!