I spent 14 hours creating a custom data visualisation (a recreation of a template that took 15 minutes to customise). Why? We’ll get to that later. But for now, it means you can get a behind-the-scenes peek of how your…
Lets look at a history of interest rates in the UK (or England…) Interest rates in England began in 1694. The government needed to raise money to rebuild the Royal Navy in the Nine Years’ War. It set up an…
How I used a market basket analysis (or associated rule mining) in a Senior Data Analyst interview take-home task to demonstrate predictive analytics and get a job offer.
Continuing the subject of space travel and satellites… Here is Nadieh Bremeh’s visualisation of all the satellite’s in space, commissioned by Scientific American in 2020. Nadieh started out as an astronomer before wanting to flex her creative muscles, becoming a…
Source: It was winter 2009 when I attended the UK Space Conference. Scoring a discounted ticket as a student, I dutifully attended the science lectures and presentations. I got bored. Don’t get me wrong. The science was cool. But…
This made a viral firestorm when it was published by Hesham Eissa and Lindsey Poulter during the pandemic. A beautiful data story about something close to every sugar monsters heart – ice cream. But what you might not know? Hesham…
It’s kinda cool to see some predictions come true. (No, this wasn’t mine. But the first time renewable energy prices dipped beneath coal energy prices in the early to mid 2010s, this day became inevitable.) We’re three months to the…
Once upon a time the tallest skyscraper in the world was the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan. Now – as many of you know, it’s the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (featuring in cinematic masterpieces such as Fast & Furious…
We know a certain Prime Minister had a shorter shelf life than a lettuce, but how do other UK Prime Ministers compare by tenure? View in full screen here In fresh vegetables territory, the Viscount Goderich was replaced between four…
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