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Alasdair Rae Profile picture
@undertheraedar
Nov 14, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Just catching up on the latest in functional economic geography news

"A boundary commission should propose adjustments that reflect economic reality." 🥳
already imagining some new shapes
although my preference would be to add a fuzzy 'maybe zone' to the edge of these kinds of maps to reflect the reality of commuter reality
and then followed by loads of 'that CAN'T be right, that's crazy!' checking of the maybe zone on Google maps at which point you realise it probably is right, or close enough
yes, there is much to be said for reading earlier tomes, and looking at the lovely maps, so I'll add my earlier thread on some of it here too

our local copies of the original, which I kept in my office for a while (their combined weight caused only a small amount of subsidence but it was worth it)

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Apr 4
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
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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

metoffice.gov.uk/research/clima…
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when you plonk the Met Office climate districts on top of a map then you get something like this Image
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Feb 6, 2023
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

drive.google.com/drive/folders/…
they're all really interesting to me, but I particularly liked Gijón, Bucharest and Valletta
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Jan 13, 2023
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
if you want to get a sense of the scale, look at the size of the people cutting up this old rig in Invergordon last summer
the Cromarty Harbour folk have done some nice street view imagery of the firth, e.g.

google.com/maps/@57.68775…
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Jan 13, 2023
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

nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census…
the % with Irish passport map looks like this - probably about what I'd have expected
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Jan 6, 2023
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
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Jan 5, 2023
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:

montage *.png -tile 10x10 -geometry +5+5 age-by-year.png

Once you have a set of files it only takes a few seconds to run
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