Giuseppe Sollazzo

Facecrop

Crop photo portraits more consistently.

Better Word Counter

Privacy-focused word counting tool with per-section counts.

Average Face – US Congress

Calculated average face of US Congress, building on the UK MP face project.

EU Twinnings

Similarity matrix between EU province-level areas, selected via EU Datathon.

Parli-N-Grams

N-grams viewer for parliamentary debates using Hansard extracts.

Ward-le

Worldle clone on UK Local Authority geography — went viral.

Faces of Fashion

Average faces of fashion across 7 countries.

Berlin Wall App

Android app identifying whether a location was in former East or West Berlin.

Brexit at the Commons

Scrollytelling page tracking 121 House of Commons votes related to Brexit.

PACSMAN

Satirical videogame — pun on Pac-man/Paxman — featuring 2017 politicians.

LiveRugby

Real-time Six Nations stats app with 15,000+ downloads.

Swing 2017

Election swing simulator for the 2017 UK General Election.

EMAG Today

Campaign site for Equitable Life victims with secure petition and MP e-mailing.

House of Commons 2017-2019 Divisions

Interactive animation of MP voting patterns using UK Parliament open data.

The Bus Station That Didn't Exist, and Other Data Epiphanies

Data epiphanies and unexpected discoveries in dataviz work.

When the EU won Eurovision… and what it teaches us about Brexit

Analysis of Eurovision voting patterns and implications for Brexit.

Data for the community

How data assets are being used at a local level.

The Open Data delusion

Critical analysis of open data initiatives and their real-world impact.

Open Data in the Health Sector

Challenges and opportunities of open data in healthcare.

The National Information Infrastructure

Policy paper on national information infrastructure development.

I travelled to Vietnam and you should too

Travel blog — 6.4k views, 1.4k reads.

PayPal closed my account with no explanation. It could happen to you.

The story of PayPal's decision to close my account — 147k views, 50k reads.

When I spent 202 days in the jaws of civil service recruitment

My first Senior Civil Service recruitment experience in 2014 — 32k views, 8.9k reads.

Effective Data – Foundations of High-Impact Software and Stories

Conference talk on building effective data foundations.

Talking with data

Keynote on effective data communication and visualization.

Dato un dato

Live radio interview on data use during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Data in public communications

Academic lecture on the history and elements of data communication.