Why 2070? Idea is that it thinks big: time, money, plans etc
That purple building footprint logo? Wigan
Main messages? See pic
my journey has been tram-train-tram from Sheffield to Salford Quays and there haven't even been any delays - a vision of what 2070 will surely be like!
(okay, minor delays)
just about to kick off here in Salford, follow #UK2070 for updates
right, we're off
Andy Burnham up now, calls for cross-party support and emphasises that this is not about north vs south (and notes Daniel Burnham quote - see report title - is no relation)
Judith Blake now kicks off the Q&A
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I saw this Met Office 'UK climate districts map' online so naturally I decided to try and figure out the population of each area whilst eating my lunch and these are the incredibly interesting results
there is also the Met Office "climate regions" map but that's a can of worms that I don't want to open, not least because of the unwavering England N / England S line
Okay, some European population density stuff now - starting with the top 100 1km grid squares by population across Europe, based on the most recent Eurostat data - more to follow
these are the top 3 by density, but I've shared a web folder with all 1km grid squares with more than 30,000 people living in them, as well as the top square in each of the 38 countries in the dataset
Topical retweet because I've been watching The Rig but also the news - I remember first seeing these when I was about 10 when playing football in Invergordon and we couldn't believe the size of them
Another very interesting recent England and Wales Census 2021 release is the passport data, so here's a map of % with no passport at MSOA level, will add a couple more below
these are all the different columns in the dataset (TS005Passports held) and the patterns are quite interesting, although I've only done a few maps as a way to explore the data
Today's census map shows the most common housing tenure in each local authority in England and Wales 🏡
I'm working on my spelling of mortgage, probably due to the shock of seeing how many households own without a mortgage!
most common by area is of course a very first-past-the-posty representation of things but I'm interested in the pattern precisely because of this - will fix typo later, perhaps I should do by constituency too
More Census age data today - a little animation of % by single year of age in each local authority. Probably needs a few watches to sink in - lots in here - but the final 10 seconds I find quite sombre, and you'll NEVER guess when lots of people leave home
and, just to go all dataviz retro, here are all the frames as small multiples
nerd note: lots of ways to make small multiples from image sets but I tend to use ImageMagick, and the image above was created using this command: