Ed Jefferson

I make internet-powered interactive things like games and comedy karaoke, and write stuff for publications including The Guardian, Time Out and the New Statesman.

I also work with a range of commercial clients on this sort of thing and more (often projects that require some form of data journalism).

If YOU want to pay me to do a thing, you can e-mail me at e dot jefferson at gmail dot com, or shout at me on Twitter.

Love Wordle, but find whole words exhausting? I’ve got you covered! (As featured in The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal and The Verge.)

Choo choo! Time Out asked me to write about trains!

I put together the data behind this report on the UK’s Greenest Cities for NatWest, in collaboration with Professor William Powrie of the University of Southampton.

I produced the research behind a pair of pieces for Rovva on the most common careers for TV characters in the UK and the US.

I built and wrote the words for a web game to tie-in with UP:RISE, an Augmented Reality public artwork by artist Baff Akoto concerned with the pathology, history and underlying drivers of English civil unrest in the digital age.

Will you do better than the real people in charge did during the 2011 riots?

I compiled the data behind this study into the best cities in the UK to move about by foot.

Despite having forgotten what very little I learned about rugby when forced to play it 25 years ago I worked with Mark Johnstone of Content Hubble (who had to explain what all the statistics actually meant) on this interactive piece which compared the players of the different UK teams ahead of the selection for the British Lions tour.

Remember when that boat got stuck? ‘Satirical’ ‘game’ ahoy!

Do you love the UK as much as whichever right-wing lunatic’s deranged tweets presumably inspired me to make this flag-drawing game? Find out!

I put together the data behind this piece on the most popular songs on Working From Home Spotify playlists to get an idea of what people were listening to during ‘the new normal’ for office workers.