Hi, I’m Alex Hamilton 
. I’m an insights lead, data journalist & photographer based in Madrid. Here’s some of what I’ve made.
My analysis of Live Data Technologies workforce data lands in a handful of major news outlets and leading Substacks. A few recent pieces:
Jun 2026 · Businessweek
The great middle management purge
Middle-manager layoffs as a rising share of S&P 500 job cuts since 2020.
Jun 2025 · Wall Street Journal
The biggest companies in America are cutting their workforces
Front-page reporting on three years of falling corporate headcount.
Mar 2026 · Business Insider
Inside OpenAI’s talent pipeline
Where OpenAI’s engineers come from and go next, across 1,200+ moves.
Where I share my writing, professionally and on the topics I am drawn to.
HumanCount
Workforce and career transitions at population scale, from Live Data Technologies data.
Mexidato
Data storytelling on Mexico’s economy and geopolitics.
Creo Charts
Data visualisation and the stories that numbers tell.
May 2026 · Madrid
The Quiet AI Work Reshuffle
A data-led talk for a sold-out room of HR and talent leaders.
Video · Conference
Building research products with live data
A conference talk on turning live data into published research.
Panel · Lithuania
Reading the startup market with data
Panel presenting the Dealroom.co ecosystem report.
Previously a portrait and lifestyle photographer in Edinburgh for several years, now shooting street and editorial across Europe.
OPPO Mobile campaign
Brand campaign work shot for the OPPO Find X3 launch.
Street & editorial
Candid work from Madrid, London, Edinburgh, Milan, and Paris.
Portrait & lifestyle
Sessions and commissions across Madrid, London, and Europe.
Alex Hamilton is a British data journalist and photographer based in Madrid. Through Live Data Technologies, his workforce analysis has been cited by The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Business Insider, and The Economist. Previously he built Dealroom Deep Dives at Dealroom.co and began in economic research at the Financial Times. He also writes Mexidato, on Mexico, and publishes HumanCount.
