Category: Analytics
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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?


