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The Bus Station That Didn't Exist, and Other Data Epiphanies
“Data is multidisciplinary” is my mantra—it’s 2025, and I’ve now worked 20 years in every possible flavour of data—data visualization, open...
I used to run the official data set of bus stops for the UK Government—a rather obscure dataset that made its way into powering a few popular journey planners like Google Maps and City Mapper. A personal example of this is the chart below, from the Financial Times, representing how UK parliamentarians increasingly mention the words “NHS” (National Health Services) in their speeches. You see the stark difference—the FT team coloured the map based on the winner in each constituency, getting a country that is pretty much split into three parts: centre-right in the north, 5 star in the South, and the centre-left only featuring in its strongholds around Romagna, Tuscany, and less expectedly in Sudtyrol.
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