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James Cattell’s idea for a benefit calculator

December 16, 2011 Paul Bradshaw

James Cattell has written a blog post outlining the idea behind using data skills to produce a benefits calculator. His point is simple: the benefits system is so complicated that even experts need constant retraining. Is this a problem that data journalism can help solve?

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