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Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has launched a trial into electric vehicle charging solutions for across pavements for homes without access to off-street parking.

Read more here: www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/news/kimmins...
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The Mauretania exhibit at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle led me to look at the fastest average Atlantic crossings for passenger liners. I couldn’t find a visualisation of the crossing times so made 📊 using Flourish: flo.uri.sh/visualisatio... #dataviz
August 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
August 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Just over 52 years ago this was the struggle people had with healthcare computing. Oh, how we laugh, looking back.

It's important to reflect on how far we've come, especially given all the incredible and visionary work done...
June 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Bizarre UX on the Android government emergency alert for storm Éowyn in NI. Frantically press OK to stop the siren and the text immediately disappears. It can then only be found in the depths of the notification settings.
January 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Oof. Very early start to get from Belfast to London for my first #ukgc25. Very much looking forward to it.
January 18, 2025 at 6:01 AM
A New Year visualisation of Google search trends for 'gym near me' shows, unsurprisingly, that the New Year week is the most popular time of year for people looking for a gym in the UK. The only exception is 2021 when the peak was delayed until lockdown ended.
January 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Hey @github.com users on @bsky.app, did you know you can get a github.io handle in a few steps?

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September 21, 2024 at 3:40 PM
One for the non-squeamish living in close proximity to school age children: a rough analysis of the annual/seasonal peaks in head lice and nits.
public.flourish.studio/story/2630542
Seasonal pattern of head lice using UK Google Trends data
A Flourish story by Paul Barber
public.flourish.studio
September 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
'Something between an Orthodox funeral mass and a Nirvana gig' Musician Hazlett Keers, poet John Brown, guitarist @paulblablah and photographer/poet James Hughes will be performing "Sailortown Requiem" on Friday 2nd June at 8pm. £7.50 on door, proceeds to @StJoesBelfast.
November 13, 2024 at 2:31 PM
The rivers, lakes and streams of Ireland, coloured by river basin, combining detailed mapping from north and south of the border. Inspired by @PythonMaps, data from http://hydrosheds.org, @OrdnanceIreland, @daera_ni, @EPAIreland, visuals in http://altair-viz.github.io
November 13, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Very pleased that the bot has found itself a new dataset. https://twitter.com/ni_covid19_data/status/1423656742618009600
November 13, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Particularly relevant in a week where lateral flow tests are starting to influence the data for NI, I wrote a thing about COVID tests and cases https://codeandnumbers.co.uk/data-dynamics-and-covid-19/
November 13, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Lining up this 1854 map of Belfast with the modern layout is amazing, both in what remains and what has been lost: https://t.co/rktGVz2h61

Apologies for the Ormeau-centric alignment, my mapwarper skills need some work. https://t.co/h0JkphIzZF
November 13, 2024 at 2:31 PM