Oliver Duke-Williams

@oliverdw.bsky.social

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Professor of Population Information; UCL Dept of Information Studies Census Service Director @ UK Data Service MA/MSc Digital Humanities programme

AI generated text states: Regional breakdown (for England and Wales) * South East: 9,278,100 (Most populous region) * London: 8,799,800 (Second most populous) * East of England: Saw the highest population growth rate between 2011 and 2021.
Only Connect A still from the BBC2 quiz show "Only Connect". Quiz host Victoria Coren Mitchell is shown with four clues, teams have to state the connection between the clues. The clues are: 1) "Battle of Agincourt" 2) "Pocahontas dies" 3) "Peterloo Massacre" 4) "(e.g.) next UK Census"
Jeni Tennison speaking at a conference; the PowerPoint slide in view highlights problems that arise if individuals don't engage/ trust govt data - they withdraw data consent, avoid services and object & protest
A table showing veteran status, from the 2021 Census A total of 28671 persons aged 95+ had served in UK armed forces, of whom 2899 were aged 100+. Of the total, 18915 were male.
Text reads: London had the highest regional proportion of people in the UK identifying as LGB, at 5.2% in 2023. It also had the lowest regional proportion identifying as heterosexual or straight, at 91.2%. While these findings did not quite reach statistical significance in the APS data, they mirror similar findings from Census 2021 described in our Sexual orientation: age and sex, England and Wales: Census 2021 article.
Graph of identification as LGB (UK, 2023) by age 16 to 24 year olds identified 3.0% as gay or lesbian, and 7.5% as bisexual 25 to 34: 2.9% gay or lesbian; 3.4% bisexual 35 to 49: 2.1% gay or lesbian; 0.8% bisexual 50 to 64: 2.0% gay or lesbian; 0.4% bisexual 65+: 0.7% gay or lesbian; 0.2% bisexual
Graph showing change in sexual orientation identification of people in the UK between 2018 and 2023. 'Gay or lesbian' increases from 1.4% to 2.0%; 'Bisexual' from 0.9% to 1.8%, and 'Other' from 0.6% to 0.7%
Promo leaflet encouraging people to respond to the 2011 Census, with the strapline "Help tomorrow take shape"
Denise Lievesley CBE speaking at a lecturn
Speakers are standing neatly spaced on stage, like an ill-advised Steps tribute act. All of us looking like we'd been volunteered with 5 minutes notice.
Steve MacFeely, OECD, at lecturn, talking. Slide on screen behind him notes speakers to come in this session: Francesca Kay, CSO Ireland, and Vipin Arora, US Bureau of Economic Analysis
Discussants on stage for the first session; Prof Cathie Sudlow is giving the chair's introduction
Image of text from the report; reads: "1.2 Unlocking data assets in the public and private sector To fuel both frontier AI progress and high-quality AI applications, developers need access to high-quality data - the lifeblood of modern AI. Data that isn't in the training sets of current models and encodes new insights about the world is particularly valuable. Public data sets, including scientific data sets, may be extremely important in this context. We should seek to responsibly unlock both public and private data sets to enable innovation by UK startups and researchers and to attract international talent and capital. As part of this, government needs to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the value of the data it holds, how this value can be responsibly realised, and how to ensure the preservation of public trust across all its work to unlock its data assets. The creation of the National Data Library (NDL) presents an enormous opportunity. As it develops the NDL, the government should:"
Front page of the PDF version of the Clifford report, has the titles plus a map highlighting the UK, made to look like a circuit board of sorts
Finishing funnel at Walthamstow park run; the ground is churned up and muddy
Feedback postcard completed in a child's shaky handwriting: "It's boring here SO I DO NOT LIKE IT and my family got lost on the way here"
PJ Harvey, Bjork, Tori Amos - all dressed in white, photo for Q magazine
Singer at a microphone stand, and guitarist facing away from the camera, surrounded by stage smoke, all lit in blue.
Infographic with data from the Annual Population Survey, and a TARDIS graphic: 61 years ago, we were introduced to Doctor Who, and Saturday teatime telly would never be the same again England and Wales (and Gallifrey), June 2024 15 Time Lords 281,000 Medical practitioners working in England and Wales
Cartoon: a man and a woman, sitting next to each other on a sofa, both with laptops. The caption is "I have this constant sense of impending Zoom"
UCL South Quad: Christmas tree with UCL-logoed base, and in the background the Print Room cafe with Christmas decorations in the window
Two Delorean cars, one behind the other, on a busy motorway
United Nations building, New York
Screenshot showing text: "You guessed 4 out of 4 correct in 4 tries"