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Rachel Lavin
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Rachel Lavin
@RachelLavin
Data journalist at Bloomberg Formerly @thetimes @businessposthq @TheSundayIndo @WIPLive
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London / Dublin
Joined March 2011
- ___________________________ | The Peace Process is | | more important than | | Brexit | |______________________ | (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / づ
- It seemed like @RTE focused less on expensive toys this year and more on simple fun and entertainment as well as giving to those in need. Thoughtful response to the economic state the country is in. 👌 #LateLateToyShow
- **Weekly Covid-19 Update** ❗️The bad news is that the true number of cases is estimated to be between 60,000 & 80,000 per day. 😷 1 in 10 estimated to be isolating at home. 📉 But the good news is Ireland's #Omicron wave is projected to peak this week. Here's how 👇 🧵1/11
- On this mildly bleak night, here's the best advice I got when I was diagnosed with cancer for the third time. No inspirational quotes or motivational cliches, it was: "Just keep going."
- Found out today that a doctor I've been interviewing on and off this past year in my role as a pandemic reporter once shared a children's cancer ward with me almost 20 years ago. So much life after childhood cancer 🎉
- Replying to @RachelLavinThis was highly co-ordinated. The same 10 lies about fake Ukranian attacks were told by 10 different Russian news networks, according to @DFRLab disinfo analysts in Ukraine. These are not just the ramblings of Putin & random officials - it is part of their strategy.
- *How to trigger a border poll* 🚨🇮🇪🇬🇧🗳️ I've been researching the numbers behind when Northern Ireland should hold a referendum on whether or not to leave the UK and form a United Ireland for a while. Here's how the data could help us decide: 🧵📈 👇 1/20
- New: The HSE has been keeping at least 1.5 million antigen tests in storage. They've only dispatched 35,000 so far (2%). businesspost.ie/coronavirus/hs…
- From tomorrow, testing positive or new symptoms will mean a Christmas Day spent in (10 day) isolation. Take care: 🔺 Reduce social contacts to a core bubble 🔺 Use KN95/FFP2 masks 🔺 Keep washing hands/distancing/choosing well-ventilated spaces 🔺 Get boosted 🎄🙏🎅😷
- Paddy Cosgrave has spent €20k in the past 2 months promoting his political opinions on Facebook & Instagram. On Twitter, where political ads are banned, the platform intervened.👇 businesspost.ie/ireland/twitte…
- Replying to @RachelLavinHow violence spread over 30 years of The Troubles - every scaled red dot is a fatal terror attack. No part of Northern Ireland was left untouched. D3 map developed from previous code with @cboutaud, data from @START_UMD. Read the full story here: irishtimes.com/news/world/bre…
GIF - There's a sense the significance of the conflict in Northern Ireland & the importance of protecting the peace has been lost in #Brexit drama. So the #BrexitBorderlands project set out to chronicle the Troubles in a new way - interactive data visualisaiton. Thread on data here: