Living in London is, for many and especially Dick Whittington, a dream. But it's a dream that comes with a hefty price tag: average monthly rental prices are nearly £1,500, compared to a national average of £750 or so. Despite this, the population of London continues to grow by…
Last weekend I went to London. It used to be my home, and one of the things that I realised I missed about London when I went back there was the London skyline. There's very little like it anywhere in the world (okay, New York perhaps...) and it's very impressive.…
I can't show you the results of the data analysis I performed at the Urban Data Hackathon (see previous post) due to a non-disclosure agreement, but I can show you a visualisation I made with one of Belfast City Council's open datasets: their street trees dataset. Using R and a…
Last weekend I was fortunate enough to be one of 40 or so people to attend Belfast's "Urban Data Hackathon" weekend. Organised as part of Belfast's Big Data Week by Kainos Software, and supported with data from Belfast City Council, TomTom, TourismNI and various others, it challenged people to dig…
The Belfast Bike scheme launched in Belfast at the end of April 2015, in a similar setup to London's "Boris Bike" scheme: you can rent bicycles for short periods of time for small amounts of money, picking them up and dropping them off as needed at docking points around the…