UK Gridded Square 200m geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/902b0… gridded population estimates for UK urban centres from ONS Geography #geospatial #opendata Also for France geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/70708… No info on method but derived from Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) data …an-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/index.php

Have shareholders in privatised water companies pocketed billions & put in nothing? 🚰💸⁉️ That’s what new research by David Hall of the Public Services International Research Unit at Greenwich University claimed today. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Is that correct? Thread...🧵1/21

John claims that Demos "reserves its harshest criticism for councils". This is false. The report states "ALL of our disinformation narratives can be classified as anti-LTN", with specific reference to Alan Miller's Together. Can't imagine why John overlooked that...🤔

Tom Forth @alanbeattie Voila on.ft.com/4beTAVx

For anyone using any of our UK constituency files (geo, hex or geo + hex) I've added an updated file set with the new area codes for the 5 Scottish constits that changed (🤬), just to ease your pain - plus a simple csv with electorate and area data automaticknowledge.org/wpc-hex/

"The 1966 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 31 March 1966. The result was a landslide victory for the Labour Party led by...Prime Minister Harold Wilson"

Very happy with this visualisation, not just because it's neatly presents results of our network simplification methods (which it does), but also because it was produced automatically in our workflow, which re-generates the results of our paper with every 'commit' to GitHub 🎉

Are you on LinkedIn? If so, click linkedin.com/mypreferences/… and consider whether you want them to be training AI on your content

For those interested in such things, my #DigiLeeds24 talk on January FY2018-19 ORR rail passenger journey visualisation, updates with five years of data and what I did next is on YouTube youtu.be/CZm-6ahj1TU and slides github.com/anisotropi4/sh… #rail #DataVisualisation #opendata

For those interested in such things, a set of five #ORR ODM aggregated passenger flow for FY2018-2023 showing the impact and recovery from COVID. It will be interesting to see the FY2023-24 data #DataVis #OpenData #RDM #rail #passenger

A colloquial (and sadly outdated) German version of “let’s go” or “let’s get this show on the road” is Satteln wir die Hühner. It means “Let’s saddle the chickens!” * Read on for more international phrases for World Chicken Day (warning: contains fowl language)…

At Open Innovations we asked 33 pro-growth economists almost exactly the same questions as UK Day One had asked different economists (one overlap) a month earlier on how they thought the government should boost economic growth in the UK. Here are our results. open-innovations.org/blog/2024-10-1…

New blog post: Open address data published by Leeds City Council shows the way to a national open address file owenboswarva.com/blog/post-addr… #openaddresses #opendata #localgov #datapolicy

For those interested in such things here is a retrospective of my #30DayMapChallenge anisotropi4.github.io/shed/30daymapc…