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 regular runners with very few casual participants (except for me!), so I was interested to investigate: is there a pattern to which races are selected by regulars, and is there a “circuit” that regular marathon-runners prefer? Continue reading “Half-marathon network maps”
Tag: Analytics
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 🙂 Continue reading “Best of the viz”
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 to have been “priced out” of our capital, and others too. All this made me wonder if this phenomenon is true elsewhere, or are we being UK-centric in thinking this challenge is unique to our country? Continue reading “Is London really too dominant a capital city?”
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? Continue reading “World University Rankings: what I’ve learned”
Barometer in the FT!
The Laxfield UK CRE Debt Barometer, with analytics by Elizabeth Martin, was featured in the Financial Times today:
UK CRE Debt Barometer – Issue 5
“Analytics by Elizabeth Martin” (more…)
Why do we need more market data in real estate?
Before getting onto the rationale behind publishing more market data, and having spent the first few years of my career building financial models based on such market data for banks & lenders, I thought I’d start by giving a brief introduction to modelling for those who are not familiar – it’s not as complicated as you might think! Continue reading “Why do we need more market data in real estate?”
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