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Martin Stabe

@martinstabe.ft.com
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Data journalist at @data.ft.com. These days mainly thinking about elections data and how to use automation and AI in news. #ddj #dataviz

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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 14/08/2026
This @nytimes.com page updates automatically every day, catching me off guard in my RSS reader. The headline is … slightly out of date. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New York Times headline "Tracking Freezing Temperatures Across Europe", with a timestamp of August 14, 2026. The current temperature in London is 33°C (92°F)
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Alan Smith @theboysmithy.ft.com · 14/08/2026
Rolling out the Marimekko to visualise the impact of ODA funding cuts on African countries. Read from @pmdfoster.bsky.social and @lucyfisher.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/ef45...
A marimekko chart showing the proportion and scale of ODA funding cuts by comparing 2024-25 country allocations with plans for 2028-29. Sudan is the only country that will retain nearly all of its funding. Kenya faces a 94% cut, Ethiopia loses £134million
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 14/08/2026
Definitely the weirdest version yet of our UK by-election chart. www.ft.com/content/1bc8...
Slope chart of the recent electoral history of the Clacton constituency, including the result of the August 13,2016 by-election, which was won by Reform's Nigel Farage on an increased majority and Count Binface second on just under 27% of the vote.
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 28/07/2026
TIL the difference between a 7.1 on the Japanese Seismic Intensity Scale and 6.8 on the moment magnitude scale. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_M...
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Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale - Wikipedia
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
very very excited to be launching Wrong Number with my buds @christinezhang.bsky.social and @jdharden.bsky.social! It’s a newsletter dedicated to all of our weird data obsessions: our first posts cover Law & Order, trees, and theme park accidents wrongnumber.beehiiv.com/p/about-wron...
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About ‘Wrong Number’
What this newsletter is, who we are, and why we named it that.
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 15/07/2026
Just landed at Heathrow. Have I missed anything of note in the past hour and 20 minutes?
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Nassos Stylianou @nassosstylianou.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
NEW: Tropical nights come to Europe One of the most striking features of the Europe's record-breaking summer is the intense night-time heat. Globally, the hottest nights are warming at a faster rate than the hottest days — with increasingly severe consequences. as.ft.com/r/eef6f0c5-6...
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 11/07/2026
Absolutely essential reading about the impact of vibe coding on open source and the practice of software development generally, by @samlearner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cec8...
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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW: a look at how surging power demands from data centers are helping to drive a shortage of electrical transformers ig.ft.com/transformers/
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 07/07/2026
🚨We're hiring!🚨 The @data.ft.com team is hiring a graphics journalist. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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Graphics journalist, Visual and Data desk ( Contractor)
London
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 12/06/2026
Great to see our new live markets data graphic widget for the @financialtimes.com homepage get its first outing for the SpaceX IPO. Amazing work here from @peter.andringa.me and Dan Clark:
Screenshot of the FInancial Times homepage, including a live-updating chart of the SpaceX share price on the day of its IPO.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 27/04/2026
The FT @financialtimes.com is hiring a new data journalist to join our US data and visuals team in New York. Great job, great team, great place to work. Apply here 👉 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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US Data Journalist
New York; Washington DC
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 23/04/2026
🚨Job🚨 at @data.ft.com: We're hiring a data journalist in the US, based in New York or Washington #ddj: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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US Data Journalist
New York; Washington DC
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Ted Alcorn @tedalcorn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I built a dashboard to explore the last 25+ years of @nytimes.com coverage. 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, 26K reporters. It's fascinating to look at the world’s preeminent attention-gathering org not as daily stories but as patterns of attention, ebbing and flowing. tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/
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Below the Fold — A New York Times X-Ray Dashboard
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This story is wild! An imposter has been impersonating ProPublica reporter @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and he tries to figure out who it is.
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Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?
A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real Robert did some reporting of his own.
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Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then Pope Leo asked to meet. My interview with @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then Pope Leo asked to meet
Gareth Gore’s 2024 book Opus alleges decades of manipulation, which the group has denied. He believes the pope wanted to send a clear message
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Amy Borrett @amyborrett.ft.com · 09/03/2026
Which leading economies will pay the biggest price for the Iran war? Not the US, it turns out Great to end my first week on the @financialtimes.com economics desk working on this story with Sam and Myles as.ft.com/r/7babde76-f...
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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Interest in posts about the NICAR data journalism conference March 5-8? This Bluesky feed collects posts with either the #NICAR26 or #NICAR2026 hashtag - plus searching for "NICAR" without a hashtag bsky.app/profile/smac... (Created with @blueskyfeedcreator.com ) #DDJ
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Michela Tindera @mtindera.ft.com · 25/02/2026
This week on Behind the Money - the @financialtimes.com's @peter.andringa.me explains the months of reporting he's put into understanding: - who the private-sector businesses are that contract with US immigration agencies - and how much ($$) they are benefitting 🎧: podfollow.com/behind-the-m...
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 24/02/2026
My colleague @okr.bsky.social vibe coded his own minimalist word processor and used it to write about vibe coding his own word processor. www.ft.com/content/071b...
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How I vibe coded an app that passes the AI productivity test
Crafting a bespoke tool has forced me to think more carefully about the way I work
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Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com · 14/02/2026
If you're a data journalist using Python and you are going to be at NICAR, we are running an introduction to Polars workshop. schedules.ire.org/nicar-2026/#... bsky.app/profile/emil...
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NICAR 2026 schedule | March 4-7, 2026 | Indianapolis
Welcome to the NICAR 2026 schedule! Browse sessions, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors.
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Jana Tauschinski @janatausch.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
A special FT magazine issue all about maps is out today, w great pieces by @okr.bsky.social and @theboysmithy.ft.com, plus maps by me on how glacial melt is redrawing Alpine borders, the battle to redraw America and more Read it online here (though best enjoyed in print!) www.ft.com/content/efab...
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:
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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
To anyone laid off from the Post today, we are hiring:
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Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com · 01/02/2026
Looks like me and @eadehemingway.bsky.social are going to be running a workshop on data analysis with @pola.rs at NICAR in March. Maybe see some of you there!
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Patrick Stotz @patrickstotz.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
These aren't even graticules. Looks like AI slop to me.
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Laura Kurtzberg 🌻 @laurakurtzberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I am so looking forward to being around this community of data journalists. If you are a NICAR speaker and I missed you, please DM me so I can add you to this starter pack! go.bsky.app/H7iUZYd
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 08/01/2026
This, by the way, is why newsletters are not a sustainable strategy by themselves for newsrooms that want to make first-party connections with their readers / audiences / communities. Inboxes are next to be intermediated.
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 08/01/2026
In which @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com discuss how social scientists have been using AI to write code for data analysis, and what this means for other professionals who do similar work … like data journalists: www.ft.com/content/9183...
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The AI Shift: Agentic AI is coming for quantitative research
The real value of an analyst now lies in the quality and quantity of their ideas
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 15/12/2025
Never let the north-up convention get in the way of a good election map!
Front page of Chile's El Mercurio newspaper, leading with an election results map of the country oriented with north on the left and south on the right.
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Mark Zuckerman @markzuckerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Harry Ford just met with reporters over Zoom. Was legitimately stunned by trade, loved Mariners org, but is looking forward to opportunity with similarly young Nats. He's currently in Oxford, England (where his father lives), says he plays to again play for Great Britain in WBC.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 26/11/2025
try out the FT's fiscal drag calculator! www.ft.com/content/54cb...
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ændra. @aendra.com · 26/11/2025
My latest work project is the calculator in this, we're starting to do more of these smaller custom component projects and it's really exciting. Kudos to everyone for how quickly this came together.
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Britons brace for highly uneven impact of Rachel Reeves’ ‘stealth tax’
[FREE TO READ] Use the FT’s interactive calculator to understand how a further freeze to income tax thresholds could affect you
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This is absolutely fascinating: you can put your postcode in and see relative levels of deprivation (and the opposite) where you live in detail. I live where I grew up, so I could spend days doing this as I know the town so well. www.ft.com/content/9a1c... Huge congrats to @amyborrett.ft.com et al.
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Interactive: explore England’s new deprivation map
Data analysis reveals ‘cheek by jowl’ inequalities in first study of country’s disadvantaged areas since pandemic
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 23/10/2025
Exciting day: one of my fave colleagues @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and I are teaming up on a weekly newsletter to track what's really happening with AI & the labour market. No hype, just spreadsheets & shoe-leather. You can sign up here to get the first edition at lunchtime today! ft.com/AIshift
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Nassos Stylianou @nassosstylianou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Massive shipping containers packed with powerful batteries are shoring up grids & extending the use of clean power ig.ft.com/mega-batteri... Latest visual story w/ @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @samjoiner.bsky.social
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How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution
Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🇳🇴 Nobel Institute probes leak of peace prize winner’s name The Nobel committee is supposedly super secret, a bastion of confidentiality and yet... 🤔 FT www.ft.com/content/afc7...
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Olaf Verhaeghe @olafverhaeghe.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Via driehoeksverhoudingen willen ontwikkelaars, chipbouwers en investeerders zich verzekeren van expertise, kapitaal en vooral rekenkracht. Voor @tijd.be ontrafelen @thomasroelens.bsky.social, @raphael.cockx.com en Stephanie De Smedt het spinnenweb van belangen. multimedia.tijd.be/interactief/...
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Matt TK Taylor @tk.gg · 08/10/2025
The easiest way to show your newsroom is actually thinking about AI isn't the 50th summarization tool or chatbot. It's automating the jobs people don't want to do. Like, bluesky's favourite: alt text! I wrote about how we built this at the FT, with an interactive demo: tk.gg/posts/ai-alt...
A screenshot of the FT's CMS showing an image component and a sparkled 'Alt text generator' button
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Katie Marriner @katiemarriner.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Hi, I've been working on a lil' something.
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 09/10/2025
Great piece of data journalism on the widespread anomalies in council tax banding, by @jonathanvincent.bsky.social and Sam Fleming and involving our great engineering teams on both the front- and back-end of the project. #ddj Plus a nod to some classic #dataviz design by @theboysmithy.ft.com:
A grid of small charts compares trends in house prices and council tax bills across UK local authorities since 1995. Each chart shows two indexed lines: one for average house prices (blue) and one for average council tax bills (grey), both normalised to 1 in 1995.

The top section displays towns and cities in northern England — such as Barnsley, Bradford, Burnley, County Durham, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Preston, Redcar and Cleveland, and Sunderland — where the two lines rise together over time, indicating that house prices and council tax bills have increased broadly in line.

The lower section forms a cartogram map of London boroughs, where house prices have risen much faster than council tax bills. In boroughs such as Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Camden, Hackney, Islington, and Waltham Forest, the blue line representing house prices climbs steeply compared to the flatter grey council tax line. The layout mirrors the approximate geography of London, with boroughs like Enfield and Barnet at the top and Croydon, Bromley, and Sutton at the bottom.

Source: Financial Times analysis of data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Valuation Office Agency (VOA). London cartogram design based on a concept by Max Gadney and Mike Gallagher.
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Joel Suss @joelsuss.ft.com · 29/09/2025
Great reporting here on the political pressure affecting prosecutions of white-collar crime in the US Featuring also great use of LLMs for structuring data 👇👇 on.ft.com/3VFYuW3
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Good read on one of the most interesting characters in tech debate. As someone who used to read the housing bubble blogs like Calculated Risk back in 2005 /2006 (i.e. before the bubble burst), there's a similar vibe with @edzitron.com - and maybe he'll be proven right.
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Ed Zitron is mad as hell
How a British-born hobbyist blogger became one of Big Tech’s punchiest critics
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 24/09/2025
This is wrong. a) The article literally states we did the analysis with AI. We used semantic search to ID paragraphs relating to a topic, then grouped text into categories by their meaning. b) The model outputs were, as below, boolean indicators about whether something fit a category.
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 23/09/2025
A cool use of AI in newsgathering, this. US companies are talking more and more about the risks rather than the benefits of AI in their SEC filings (while still being super-optimistic in earnings calls). By @melissahei.bsky.social @chriscook.news & @claradoodle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e93e...
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Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
NEW: How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America @okr.bsky.social and I on prediction markets' entry into sports contracts under Trump's CFTC and the resulting legal fights with states, tribal groups, and the gaming industry on.ft.com/4nwVxDk
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How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America
Kalshi is spearheading a legal battle to expand access to online betting, with support from some in Trump’s circle
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 04/09/2025
our latest: black borrowers are twice as likely to be rejected for a US mortgage as white borrowers - even after you account for income, location etc etc. www.ft.com/content/217c...
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Black applicants twice as likely to be rejected for a US mortgage
FT analysis finds all ethnic minorities have lower probability of being granted home loans than white counterparts
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Nassos Stylianou @nassosstylianou.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
We've built a football game and it's free to play! Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game. 👉 ft.com/football-game ⚽️💸
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Can you run a Premier League football club?
Step into the boardroom, navigate profit and sustainability rules and guide your club to glory
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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
My going-away page from the NYT included a gently mocking reference to my evangelization of Scoop, the in-house CMS. I was right then and it's still true: investing in your CMS is among the best decisions a news org can make.
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