I’m thrilled to announce I have been awarded a prestigious Dan Olner fellowship… i.e. after six years in my current post and ten years postdocing in total, my academic contract finished and I am now living off my savings. This is, I am telling myself slightly unconvincingly, a good thing. Here’s the rough plan for …
Telling data stories with the English index of multiple deprivation
I’ve made a visualisation tool for digging into the English index of multiple deprivation (IMD). The 2019 IMD just came out, accompanied by a bunch of great ways to look at it, including Alasdair Rae’s full set of local authority maps and Rob Fry‘s amazing webmap that shows all IMD subdomains for any LSOA (lower …
How are house price moves linked across space? A visualisation for Glasgow
Video above: how house price substitutability changes between Glasgow postcodes. The blue dot (centre, below the river) moves up and down across a few postcodes. Large red dots show other postcodes where house prices have moved in tandem over time. As the dots shrink / turn green, price movement matches become weaker. Right-click on the …
Sheffield’s first Data-for-Good hack day
I was at Sheffield’s first data for good hack day on Saturday – it was bloomin’ Marvelous. Organised by Tom French and Lauren Quinn from Good Things Foundation and Sarah Miller, BI developer at Jet2, we were working with Amy Evans from youth homelessness charity Roundabout. (It’s sensitive data so we had to delete it …