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The world is full of numbers - and they are often used to confuse us rather than making things easier to understand.
I am not a statistician or a researcher, but I do see myself as a translator of interesting and sometimes important work. I hope you will find here a range of fun, informative and relevant information, that is easy to understand and often accompanied with a range of short videos and animating graphics.
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You don't have to be sombre to be serious, and I hope you find all the following insights helpful and engaging.
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Click the article you are interested in the full report
(click the right had side for both the text and video)
Top Trumps?
One of the most divisive of US Presidents is about to take office, but loved and loathed in almost equal measure, his supporters and...
Jan 185 min read
Chancellor For A Day
Chancellor For The Day - the choices facing the new chancellor and what you might do faced with these facts
Jul 7, 20245 min read
What Is The Autumn Statement?
"I believe we should all pay our tax bills with a smile…I tried but they wanted cash" Did You Know...? My Little Red Bag Before we start...
Nov 19, 20239 min read
Sick Note Britain
The amount of people not able to work because of sickness has risen sharply in recent years and is now at the highest level since records...
Nov 13, 20239 min read
Pounds & Pennies - Pension Comparisions
As debate over the pension income guarantee, known as the 'Triple Lock' heats up, it's worth looking at what evidence there is around...
Sep 24, 20232 min read
Hidden Truths
How people's experiences may not reflect the picture painted by official figures. Inflation reported a surprise drop this week. The...
Sep 22, 20232 min read
iPhone Banned Over Safety Concern
The iPhone 12 has been banned in France because of fears over the radiation it emits. So how do you work out what risk your phone...
Sep 16, 20233 min read
Where Have All The Young Men Gone?
One of the most surprising things about the jobs market is the disappearance of a huge chunk of the young male workforce. 'Economic...
Sep 14, 20231 min read
Long-Term Sick
The level of illness among the population is costing lives and harming the economy, a new report has warned. More than 2.6 million people...
Sep 14, 20232 min read
Gushing Over Oil
It certainly surprised me that it is Venezuela that has the biggest oil reserves in the world and not the usual Middle East suspects of...
Sep 10, 20232 min read
Too Old To Boogie?
Are Our Political Leaders Getting Too Old? The recent 'freezing' of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell at a press event in...
Sep 1, 20231 min read
On Ya Bike
The Rise Of The E-Bike - In 5 Pictures E-bikes are booming with signs of them everywhere. To many people's annoyance they are literally...
Aug 28, 20234 min read
Why Property Prices Don't Matter - As Much As We Think They Do
Why it's important to be more balanced in our reporting and understanding of the whole property market - to better reflect people's...
Feb 2, 20235 min read
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How To Lose 60% Of Your Savings
With inflation now over 10% - your savings are disappearing faster than the froth on your morning coffee. With bank accounts paying...
Sep 6, 20221 min read
Stealing To Eat
I am making a programme for ITV's Tonight series called 'Shops & Robbers'. As a background to that, here are some revealing numbers which...
Jul 12, 20221 min read
Disappearing Wildlife
I don't meet anyone these days who denies that climate change is happening but I do think that few people genuinely realise or believe...
Jul 12, 20221 min read
The Rise Of The Side Hustle
More than 1.2 million of us have a side hustle according to official figures and the actual number is probably a lot higher. That's 72%...
Jun 25, 20222 min read
The Incredible Shrinking Tenner
Inflation has hit frightening levels for many. Without bonus payments, workers were paid an average 4.2% wage increase in the three...
May 17, 20221 min read
UK Pensioners and a BP Windfall Tax
The oil company' owners by size - as if they were dog breeds. See graphic below BP's profits more than doubled to $6.2bn (£5bn) in the...
May 10, 20223 min read
Border Trouble
NATO's border with Russia may be about to double, if Finland decides to join the Western military alliance. Since the proximity of NATO...
Apr 14, 20221 min read
The State Of The Nation - The Hidden Economy
The economy, as measured by GDP is not doing badly. BUT the average figure hides as much as it reveals. There is a sub-economy in which...
Jan 19, 20221 min read
The Cost Of Content
Cost isn't the only thing to look at - the value of what you get is also important. But since so many people are talking about the cost...
Jan 18, 20221 min read
Travel Footprints
CO2 Pollution by travel method To reduce the huge environmental damage we are doing to the planet - we need to make different choices....
Jan 11, 20221 min read
RAISING THE ROOF
How the property price boom makes sitting at home watching TV more profitable than going to work. Graphic: TheDataCurator. Info source as...
Jan 8, 20221 min read
World's Biggest Champagne Charlies
Graphics: Data Curator As you raise a glass of champagne to the new year- consider that you are in good company, The UK consumes more...
Dec 31, 20211 min read
The Most Effective Christmas Ads
Data Source: Kantar. Graphics: Data Curator Whilst they still make us smile more than the average ad, this year’s body of ads is less...
Dec 31, 20211 min read
The Inaffordability Index
The number of years of average earnings you need to buy an average property Source: Data from Nationwide. Graphics from DataCurator...
Dec 30, 20211 min read
Youth Unemployment
Youth unemployment is two and a half times that of the unemployment in the population as a whole. In the early 1990s, the youth...
Mar 30, 20211 min read
Will The Poor Benefit From An Economic Rebound?
Having suffered one of the biggest economic declines of all times, there is much talk of how a predicted rebound. But the widely used GDP...
Mar 8, 20213 min read
A Tetris-Like Budget Game
The 4 key charts you need to understand the challenge facing the Chancellor, in the 2021 budget In the budget, the Chancellor has to...
Feb 28, 20212 min read
The Recession Confusion
A recession is defined as two quarters of economic contraction. But this is not only an arbitrary definition, it's not even very helpful....
Feb 16, 20211 min read
How Long You Have To Walk To Work Off The Calories In A Chocolate Bar
I recently spent £15 in a greengrocers on cherries because I completely misunderstood what weights actually meant in practice. Similarly,...
Feb 10, 20211 min read
How Much Emptier Are The Roads?
There's no doubt that the roads are emptier because of the national lockdown. The little chart below, shows just how much less traffic...
Feb 5, 20211 min read
How Reliable Are Rapid Covid Tests?
A Dangerous Misunderstanding? Why wrongly using the results of Lateral Flow Tests, could be spreading COVID even further If you took 100...
Feb 1, 20214 min read
You May Be Surprised At Who Is Doing All The Drinking
Lockdown may well have changed many of our relationship with alcohol. Pubs are closed in England but our drinking at home may well have...
Nov 10, 20201 min read
What Do We Make Our Money From?
There is so much concern about the economy and our trading relationships with other countries - I thought this short guide, with added...
Nov 3, 20201 min read
If The Government Debt Was An Animal
Covid has means huge changes to the finances of government and the country. What had only months before seemed unimaginable levels of...
Oct 21, 20201 min read
The Flagpole of Trade
Who On Earth do We Trade With? There's a lot of talk about the effects of Brexit and whether we can replace our traditional trading...
Oct 19, 20201 min read
The Recession - How Bad Will It Get?
When the Chancellor talked about a fall in the economy of 25%, it sounded a lot but what does that actually mean and how does it compare...
Oct 16, 20201 min read
Young and Unemployed
Create a blog post subtitle that summarizes your post in a few short, punchy sentences and entices your audience to continue reading. The...
Oct 16, 20202 min read
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