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Most government statistics are mapped according to official geographical units such as wards or lower super output areas. Whilst such units are essential for data analysis and making decisions about, for example, government spending, they are hard for many people to relate to and they don’t particularly stand out on a map. This is why we tried a new method back in July to show life expectancy statistics in a fresh light by mapping them on to London Tube stations.  read more

PHOTOGRAPH: Yamauchi Yu

Tagged: harry beck, inequality, james cheshire, life expectancy, lives on the line, mapping inequality, mapping statistics, mark green, tube map

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