Author: Elizabeth Shaw
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GB’s Olympic formula: is medal success the ‘right’ goal for UK Sport investment?
Rio 2016 has seen Britain’s best medal haul in over a century: second in the world with 67 medals. Whilst the more cynical might attribute some of its success to the decline of other nations, it is generally acknowledged that UK Sport’s system of investment lies behind GB’s success. But…
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Visualisation in Business – Part 3
This follows on from Part 1 and Part 2 in this 3-part special on Visualisation in Business. What types of chart best tell my data’s story? The rule of thumb is to use the simplest chart to showcase your results. Far too many people try to jam their data into a funky type of…
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Visualisation in Business – Part 2
This follows on from Part 1 “What is visualisation?” in this 3-part special on Visualisation in Business. How is visualisation used in business, what value does it bring? Visualisation can save you time, elicit improved insights, bring your data to life, boil data down to its essence, and best of all, it puts…
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Visualisation in Business – Part 1
So far most of my blogs have been on “just for fun” applications, largely because I can’t go into specifics on business applications due to their confidentiality. But it’s the business world that’s really driving acceleration in the field, so I will try to redress the balance here in describing (in suitably broad terms)…
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Brexit issue of the Barometer: in the FT again today!
The Laxfield UK CRE Debt Barometer, with analytics by Elizabeth Martin, was featured in the FT again today. Selected visualisations from the report below!
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London transport’s overcrowding: what’s causing it & can we solve it with data?
As featured in CapGemini Business Analytics Blog London’s transport overcrowding has become so pervasive that it has been cited as London’s #2 biggest issue – after the housing crisis, of course, but the two are heavily inter-related. It factored into every mayoral candidate’s manifesto in a big way, and impacts on…
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Half-marathon network maps
I ran a half-marathon last weekend! It was tough but I think the great thing about running is that you can see so much improvement if you’re prepared to put in some good preparation (using data of course!) combined with a healthy dose of motivation. I felt that the race I entered was dominated by…
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Best of the viz
This time I thought I’d put together a collection of interesting analytic visualisations created by others, with a broad range of applications from dating to transport! Hopefully you’ll find something to interest you too 🙂
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Is London really too dominant a capital city?
Various reports have bemoaned London’s dominance within the UK. Helen Lewis of the Guardian recently stated “the capital’s uncontrolled growth has given it a dominance that damages the rest of the country” (http://gu.com/p/4g7f5/stw). This bloating of London has been most publicised in terms of house prices, with students topically claiming…
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World University Rankings: what I’ve learned
For the past 8 months I’ve been working as a Data Scientist in the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings team, helping to take the analysis behind the rankings in-house (it was previously all done by Reuters), and improving it along the way … so what did I learn?
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