The Great British Class Calculator was a big data project, three years in the making. I produced the development of the results from the Great British Class Survey, and fully-collaborated with the academic researchers. I produced the design and editorial of the Class Calculator, the interactive experience that expressed the results from the nationwide surveyContinue reading “The Great British Class Calculator”
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Where in Britain would you be Happiest?
‘Where in Britain would you be Happiest?’ was the result of another big data project, where personality and life outcome data was gathered for the BBC’s ‘Child of Our Time’ programme. After collaborating with academic researchers, we developed a means of predicting the greatest life-satisfaction for particular personality types in specific British locations. I producedContinue reading “Where in Britain would you be Happiest?”
The Global Change Calculator
For the BBC ‘Tomorrow’s World’ campaign, I commissioned and developed an interactive tool that would use various datasets to compare the global change in you and your family’s lifetime. The Global Change Calculator, compared change in seven different ways, including CO2 emissions, technological invention, species extinction and disease eradication. Launched on BBC Taster, with severalContinue reading “The Global Change Calculator”
BBC iWonder
BBC iWonder was the BBC’s interactive Knowledge and Learning platform. I produced key launch content for the platform and ran a team of assistant producers and researchers. Initially the platform created topical factual articles, but also developed animated, short-form video and data-driven strands. I produced several of the highest performing pieces in each category, includingContinue reading “BBC iWonder”
UK’s Solar Eclipse – a collaboration with BBC News
I co-produced with BBC News the live digital event of the UK’s 2015 Solar eclipse – partnering with the production team from ‘Stargazing Live’ to create the most successful factual live streams by the BBC, at that time. I commissioned scheduled micro-content, produced several Q&As, and brokered the live link with a camera crew aboardContinue reading “UK’s Solar Eclipse – a collaboration with BBC News”
BBC Lab UK
BBC Lab UK was a groundbreaking partnership between the BBC and academic research scientists. I started in the team as a producer and finished as the Editorial Lead. I helped develop the product and platform which gathered over three million cases of data over four years. I helped develop the core data-gathering engine, which wasContinue reading “BBC Lab UK”
Second-screen tweeting for ‘Dara O Briain’s Science Club’
I developed a format, strategy and team to deliver factual social content synchronous to the BBC Two programme. I led a team, embedded with the production unit of Dara O Briain’s Science Club, to create a new style of content & delivery, back in 2012. More on BBC Blog
Michael Orwell 