Joe joined us in 2017. As Head of Product and Design, he coordinates efforts to develop tools and layouts that make our research and data more accessible and understandable. He also contributes as a researcher, where his work focuses on global trends in poverty and economic inequality. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. at the University of Oxford.
Joe joined us in 2017. As Head of Product and Design, he coordinates efforts to develop tools and layouts that make our research and data more accessible and understandable. He also contributes as a researcher, where his work focuses on global trends in poverty and economic inequality. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. at the University of Oxford.
Topics covered by Joe on Our World in Data
While the steep rise of inequality in the United States is well-known, long-run data on the incomes of the richest shows countries have followed a variety of trajectories.
The redistribution of income achieved by governments through taxes and benefits varies hugely.
The Gini coefficient is the most common way of measuring inequality. But what does it actually measure? And how does it differ from other measures of inequality?
May 01, 2024
Our peer-reviewed article outlines seven ways to publish data better.
April 24, 2024
Our new search tools unlock thousands of indicators. Read more about what’s new.
March 06, 2024
Discover our bite-sized format focused on one chart.
February 28, 2024
Here’s what’s changed, what hasn’t, and some of the thinking behind the new design.
July 11, 2023
Adjusting incomes for inflation is crucial if we want to learn how standards of living are changing. How is this adjustment done?
July 06, 2023
Explore a wide range of indicators on inequality and poverty and compare sources.
October 26, 2022
The World Bank has updated the methods it uses to measure incomes and poverty around the world. What does this mean for our understanding of global poverty?
October 18, 2022
We’ve just published a major redesign of our topic pages. Explore this redesign with our new work on poverty.
January 31, 2022
Data is too often published in a way that’s hard to understand, check and build upon – reinforcing the low valuation it gets in society. Here is how we’re trying to break out of this bad equilibrium.
October 09, 2020
The Our World in Data dataset which has tracked COVID-19 testing across the world since the start of the pandemic has been peer-reviewed and published in the academic journal, Nature Scientific Data.
September 01, 2020
June 03, 2020
Not all countries report their data in a helpful way. To help official providers of testing data, we set out some simple recommendations based the best reporting practices across the countries included in our testing dataset.
February 05, 2019
January 25, 2019
November 19, 2018
Whether inequality is rising or falling depends on where, when, and what aspect of inequality we have in mind.
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