Technical musings of Paul Woods
A brief hiatus here on the blog whilst I relocated to the best city in the world, London. To blow off some cobwebs, I flexed my Python/Matplotlib muscles and took a look at the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling. Parsing the text of the books, I extracted…
It has only been six months since the last General Election in the UK, but already a proportion of the UK population are losing faith in their Prime Minister, David Cameron. The ruling Conservative party have been coming under fire in the media after broken election promises, post-election U-turns and…
The map above shows some of the roads of Belfast, but as defined by the footsteps of its inhabitants. I have plotted over 3,000 running and walking routes as registered by users of the MapMyRun website. The more opaque the line, the more well-trodden the route. This visualisation uses…
After yesterday's discovery that the adjusted rate of deaths following contact with the England & Wales police forces was higher than that in the US, I set out to try to verify this information. As I stated yesterday, there is no systematic, reliable record of deaths caused by the police…
If you've been following this blog at all, you'll know that I've been watching with interest the series of police-related deaths in the USA. The rate of these deaths (to be precise, the rate of reported deaths: this may be increasing as awareness increases) seems to be increasing dramatically. Two…