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    Alan Smith leads the FT's newsroom team of data reporters and visual journalists. His specialism is data visualisation, on which he writes for the semi-regular Chart Doctor series in the FT's work & career pages.

    Before he joined the FT, he was head of digital content at the Office for National Statistics where he was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to official statistics.

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    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      War in Ukraine: free to read
      Tracking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in maps

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      Global inflation
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      Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has increased prices for everything from energy to wheat, adding to inflationary pressures worldwide

    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
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      Global population growth hits lowest rate since 1950

      UN reports overall decline in pandemic-hit Europe and slowdown elsewhere

    • Saturday, 2 July, 2022
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      Growth in the region fuelled 6 per cent rise in global use of the dirtiest fossil fuel in 2021

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      Cricket
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      Bold change of approach under new coach and captain has delivered a striking improvement in results

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      World’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases historically stands out for lack of effective legislation

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      Prices are increasing at different rates, with the cost of living rising fastest in the Baltic states and eastern Europe

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      The double blow of pandemic and war has caused inflation to surge and growth to slow around the world. But experts do not expect a return to the 1970s

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      Special ReportFT Health: Future of Antibiotics
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      Study finds lower middle income countries in South Asia and Latin America have highest levels of pollutants

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      Special ReportFT Health: Future of Antibiotics
      Antibiotic resistance kills over 1m people a year, says study

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    • Wednesday, 29 December, 2021
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      Graphics of the year — making sense of 2021

      Visualisation has become increasingly important in the telling and the understanding of stories

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      Coronavirus: free to read
      Coronavirus tracker: the latest figures as countries fight the Covid-19 resurgence

      The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and tracks the vaccine rollouts around the world

    • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
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      Researchers train AI on ‘synthetic data’ to uncover Syrian war crimes

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      Antibiotic accountability: how countries and companies perform

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