May 16, 2012
The UK has been at the forefront of having and using really high quality digital geographical data for a number of years. This has ranged from our Census every 10 years to address-based products like Royal Mail PAF data. The …
May 4, 2012
I don’t currently have a television but when I get the chance I watch Jeremy Clarkson and friends on Top Gear. Whilst they are very funny and I often can’t help laughing, as an environmentalist, it does make me shudder. …
May 2, 2012
Tomorrow’s a voting day for many councils in the UK so I thought I would investigate voting patterns according to our demographic classification, P2 people and places. I downloaded data from the Electoral Commission for the 2010 general election. After …
April 25, 2012
In two previous postings I have mooted the use of demographic classification as a means of unlocking meaning from confidential health data. Later I hope to do further postings refining these issues but this morning I noticed that, one of …
April 20, 2012
These days we can buy paper maps and GPS devices, we can download mapping apps for our smartphones and to date, over 500 million people have downloaded the free version of Google Earth. Clearly mapping is important to our sense of …
April 16, 2012
At Beacon Dodsworth we do our best to avoid making mistakes, however writing software is a complex procedure and all humans are fallible, so our software, like all software, can have bugs. Bugs can be erratic, only appearing following specific …
April 11, 2012
Dear Secretary of State, Based on work with the North West Public Health Observatory (NWPHO), Beacon Dodsworth has produced maps of the likelihood of disease associated with certain lifestyles. (See our blog post The ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of disease in Bradford: An inverse correlation between coronary disease and skin cancer). This …
March 28, 2012
Dear Director, A friend prompted me to look for sites for Waitrose in York and I had been told that the smallest outlet to be considered would be 7000 sq. ft. One of the places I identified (too late) has …
March 27, 2012
At BD, we’re a little bit geeky when it comes to geography and drive times and so when we stumbled across some interesting videos of people filling their vehicles with chip fat instead of diesel it certainly fuelled some debate… …
March 22, 2012
Be first across the finish line with early updates to your datasets… Staging the Olympics is the largest peacetime logistical exercise any country can undertake. Along with the obvious benefits increased interest and tourism will bring to the capital (and …
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