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 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 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 …
February 23, 2012
Innovation and efficiency in the NHS We’ve all been there… You think you know something, the targets have been met, the numbers have crunched, the percentages all work… On paper everything is hunky dory but in reality, we haven’t a …
February 2, 2012
A few years ago I performed some estimates of carbon footprints using the P² People and Places geodemographic classification from Beacon Dodsworth. I used carbon footprint numbers from the Green Ration Book and combined these with data from the Target …
January 19, 2012
In a collaboration with Beacon Dodsworth, the North West Public Health Observatory used P² People & Places and the national Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data to investigate the effect of lifestyles on disease rates. We found some interesting results… The method …
January 12, 2012
I had a pleasant but quiet holiday. But… being Beacon Dodsworth’s token ‘green’, I was worrying too much about the environment and climate change, particularly about the reports of methane bubbling from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf as reported by Natalia …
December 23, 2011
This is part two of our series of blog posts on how increasing fuel prices affect rural life. Read part one here… How increasing fuel prices affect rural life Part 2: Expenditure on fuel Using the Living Cost and Food …
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