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Sean
@seandf.bsky.social
Digital PR and Creative. Specialises in data-driven and interactive storytelling. Collects a lot of magazines. Enjoys synths and psych rock. #DigitalPR #DataViz #MUFC
Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised www.theguardian.com/environment/...
October 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Putting my Glastonbury envy to one side for a moment, I wanted to look at the impact of the festival's stage announcements on an artist's streaming numbers.

Here are the 10 artists that benefitted the most with a boost in streams:
June 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊

🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency

#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
May 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Black Mirror's most searched-for episode is Bandersnatch (2018). It was nowhere near the highest-rated episode by critics (74% RT) or audiences (7.1 IMDb), so the 'choose your own narrative' format was likely the element that sparked the search interest.
public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
May 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
AI slop: a perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik
A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Solidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling.

The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right.

Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.
April 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
One of the greats with an incredible journey to musical acclaim
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
Amadou Bagayoko obituary
Malian singer-songwrier and guitarist who had international success in a duo with his wife Mariam
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The Mary Wallopers @ O2 Academy Brixton ☘️
One of the funnest crowds I’ve been in here
March 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Perhaps the first time I’ve seen an old Digital PR campaign beat the Pudding to a topic: How do animals sound across different languages?

Love the colour-coded phonetic elements in the Pudding version too!

GoCompare: www.indy100.com/viral/animal...
The Pudding: pudding.cool/2025/03/lang...
How do animals sound across languages?
Analyzing animal onomatopoeia across languages can demystify how we shape sound into meaning.
pudding.cool
March 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
How artists from the Polish school of posters reimagined films while navigating communist censors:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
March 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Together again on the field of heaven
January 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Bayindir saving the pens and the Sunday vibe. A lovely turnaround for Zirkzee since the Newcastle game too. #MUFC
January 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In order of preference:
1. Chinese 🍵
2. British 🥓
3. Medical 💊
You’re welcome! 😊🍻 HNY!
January 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Avanti West Coast as Scrooge in A Network Rail Carol (without the redemption arc)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... #DataViz #Euston
December 23, 2024 at 4:03 PM
For once, a Manchester derby didn’t ruin my Sunday. Amad for it. #MUFC
December 15, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Supermarket chefs need a tighter brief when creating new Christmas foods
www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...
The supermarkets’ worst festive food offences
Harry Wallop identifies the greatest crimes against festive food, from bhaji ‘baubles’ to a charcuter-wreath
www.thetimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 1:54 PM
With this year's Spotify Wrapped finally released, I'll plug one of my favourite personal projects from 2024:

Spotify Unwrapped: What Else Can You Learn About Your Listening Habits?

medium.com/@SeanFitzsim...
Spotify Unwrapped: What Else Can You Learn About Your Listening Habits?
Uncovering more insights from my music streaming history that Spotify Wrapped doesn’t tell you
medium.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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Pleased to have contributed some thoughts to this interesting piece in the @theguardian.com about changing nightlife habits www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n... "Great art always starts outside of the cultural institutions; great music starts outside of the major venues".
‘By 8pm it is time to head home’: whatever happened to the big night out?
This week, the chief executive of a major bar group suggested 3pm is the new 9pm. Why have we stopped drinking and dancing the night away on a Friday and Saturday night?
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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A pretty big announcement - here's why we're allowing PR people to access our training course for free.

TL:DR: the PR job market, and access to training is in a bad place. The graph in this blog might genuinely surprise you.

highflyersprcourse.com/why-were-all...

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Why we're allowing PR people to access our course for free - High Flyers PR
Young, bright PR people – the future of our industry – are losing out on an industrial scale. The short version: from today, we’re offering the High Flyers PR Course for free to help upskill people lo...
highflyersprcourse.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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“British workplaces rank among the worst in Europe for long hours, tight deadlines and limited autonomy, without being any more productive.”

Shock news: limiting workers’ rights makes people miserable, sick and unproductive
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
UK workers face some of Europe's greatest job stress, report says
British workplaces rank among the worst in Europe for long hours, tight deadlines and limited autonomy, without being any more productive.
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Damn, this is smooth to use. Always love to see how baby name datasets can be reinterpreted for new stories and creative projects. Type in your name and instantly create a line graph showing its US popularity over time.
baby-names.jetpack.ai by @karimdouieb.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Consistently brilliant. Telling stories on paper that you don’t find online, like all good zines.
United We Stand first hit the streets 35 years ago today.
MUFC were 10th and dropped to 12th after the next game. Now, MUFC are 12th. Consistency.
November 25, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Ruud very quickly identified that Casemiro’s legs no longer work without a sideman like Ugarte
November 24, 2024 at 5:46 PM