Dan Olner’s Data Dispatch

Open data and code used for ONS subnational data conference

code

ons

planning

Off the back of presenting at the ONS subnational data conference, this post collects the open data / code I used in the slides, as well as a few extra bits mentioned in…

How to automate your way out of Excel hell & other ONS data wrangling stories (business demography edition)

code

ons

firms

I’ve been analysing the latest ONS business demography data (that ONS pull from the IDBR). It contains a tonne of great data on business births, deaths, numbers, ‘high…

What this situation needs is another blog, said no-one ever

gumph

“Another blog! Thank the Gods! Blogging is so now, isn’t it?”

Pub crawl optimiser

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teaching

geo

Well maybe. Sheffield R User Group kindly invited me to wiffle at them about an R topic of my choosing. So I chose two. As well as taking the chance to share my pain in…

Migration entropy

migration

modelling

segregation

One of the parts of my new job (both here and here) is a project examining how migration and a host of other spatial-economic and social things interact. This is awesome…

UK trade flows

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geo

io

This is one of the fun things I coded up in the process of developing the last grant I worked on. I’ll explain a bit about it and then share some thoughts on whether it’s…