Patrick

Public Infrastructure | MSc Public Policy 📖 | #RStats | #Dataviz 📊

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

#WeekendProject recreating @undertheraedar's 'UK Deprivation' #dataviz with updated election results in #rstats

It's such awesome graphic and nobody should underestimate the effort it takes to work with UK geopolitical data!

Code and full graphic, here: https://t.co/jyuyWgJpEK

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

@DharamKapila @boop @obsdmd @TfTHacker @joshm @Mappletons @viticci Did this ever go-live Dharam?

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

@Noahpinion IIRC I believe this is the whole premise of 'Bullsh*t Jobs' by David Graeber.

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

@DrChalton 'Margins are for printing bleed', yeah right! That's a myth conjured up by the international notetaking community (probably lizards - the good ones) to systematise and industrialise note-space in books.

I am wrong.

[Darnall Well Being @DarnallWB]

#NHS75
What have laptops got to do with our work with the NHS, helping local people to stay healthy? A thread...

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[Patrick @NearandDistant]

Anyone - absolutely anyone - that says economic growth is “easy” or should always be given primacy should be blocked immediately.

The market is not an end in itself.

[Ruben Mathisen @rubenbmathisen]

Would the rich pay more in tax if public opinion decided?

My new article "Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy" is now available in FirstView at @BJPolS.

(https://t.co/iw3XSmBtD6).

Here's a thread 🧵 on the main findings

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

@EdWhiting1 @JackTShaw Gracias!

[Nick Bloom @I_Am_NickBloom]

WSJ investment tip. Short companies cutting WFH and long companies increasing WFH. Managers that see growth slowing care less about attrition so cut WFH, managers that see growth picking up need to hire so expand WFH.
https://t.co/E7BwcQ1d9i

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

@JackTShaw Where are those figures from Jack? Recently the ‘i’ reported:

“The biggest increase is in London where rents are up £230 a month (13.4%), followed by Edinburgh at an increase of £140 a month (13.7%).”

https://t.co/ALx6L7UNbL

[John Gibbons 🇵🇸 @think_or_swim]

Shocking to witness how pedestrianisation and the #waroncars has ripped the heart out of once-thriving Edinburgh

[Amy Gandon @GandonAmy]

Do I know any survey design pros who would be prepared to take a look at a draft of something?

This is to help test our qualitative findings from interviews w/ 50 civil servants against a wider sample.

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

@DavidVeevers1 Dani Rodrik cites it from Oded Galor and Andrew Mountfield’s ‘Trading productivity for productivity: theory and evidence’ (2008)… and it’s everything you’d expect it is.

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

Give me the confidence of an economist trying to explain the diverging growth of countries through colonialism as “commodity-exporting countries gave up productivity in exchange for population” (2008, not even that long ago!)

Leave colonial history to @DavidVeevers1 👀

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

@jburnmurdoch Isn’t that because higher tax take allows greater investment and therefore better infrastructure, though - instead of a direct mechanism from individual wealth.

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

What is this website actually called anymore...

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

🤢😮‍💨🙄

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

@watling_samuel @DavidHenigUK @lmrwanda @tc1415 I think a lot of people read this (very good) piece and find ways to turn it to their preconception rather than engage with it on its own terms.

[BlackRedGuard ☭ 🇵🇸🔻⛓️‍💥 @OGBlackRedGuard]

*earth: boiling, roasting, toasting*

workers: *striking*

everything: *expensive*

Government:

[Patrick @NearandDistant]

@jwhandley17 Legend! Thanks 🙏