Patrick Scott

Head of Data Journalism, Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Cardiff

As seen in: MSN UK, The Daily Mirror, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Yahoo News UK, South China Morning Post, Cynon Valley Leader, Flipboard, Glamorgan Gazette, Rhondda Leader and

Covers: data journalism, television, film, music, social media, hackney, board games, online presence

Data journalism/viz projects @ONS. Used to do data journalism for New Statesman, Telegraph, Reach.

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Editing The Woosta Source

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Peter Parker - He's Spiderman for goodness sake.

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter - there are so many uses for it.

Why did you become a journalist?

I became a journalist after volunteering to editor my college newsletter whilst at Oxford University. I really enjoyed it and went from there

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