Author Archives: Adele Gilpin
Data or it didn’t happen!
I attended the Visualized.io conference in November and amongst many brilliant talks was one by @JazzPazz about lifelogging where I first heard the phrase “Data or it didn’t happen”. Much like the phrase I’ve heard many times before, “Photo or it didn’t happen…”, we are now moving towards an age where we have to prove we have seen something, […]
Raspberry Pi (or rather Raspberry Spi – setting up a live webcam from scratch)
While @elpollouk has been in San Francisco for GDC, I’ve been having *issues* with our letting agents thinking they can have 24/7 access to the flat without letting me know in advance – not only is it against the law, it’s bloody freaky coming home to find things moved around when you’re on your own. So, […]
Mapping Country Links in Tableau
I’ve been looking to do this sort of visualisation with map data for a while; to show links between countries and to have the chunkiness of the lines correspond to particular amounts. I am still very, very new to Tableau but thought their tutorials may be a great place to start. The Advanced Mapping Techniques tutorial had […]
Grand Designs
I’ve had a bit of a rubbish start to the year – bad news and sad news abound and being incredibly busy at work has left me a little drained. But it’s times like this when the mind really helps you to focus on the important things in life and makes you realise that there’s […]
GCSE Results
There has been much chatter this week about GCSE results, which not only serves as a means by which to make me feel old (16 years ago people, 16 YEARS!) but it has also been a fabulous opportunity to dive in to the data. News outlets predictably report on the performance gap between girls & […]
Daily Mail pie chart fail, a crime against data visualisation
I have a love/hate relationship with pie charts – when they are used well, they are a brilliant way of showing proportions (x is bigger than y, which is bigger than z) and seeing where a particular slice fits in as part of the whole (mmm pie). I’m certainly not the first person to wax […]
Using a UK postcode to find Lat and Long and other useful information
So I have a list of UK postcodes and I want to find out the latitude and longitude of that postcode to plot it on to a map. There are numerous ways to do this, including: 1. Visiting Google Maps 2. Entering the postcode in to the search box 3. Right-clicking on the little point on […]
Setting up Python and Easy_Install on Windows 7
This weekend, I needed to set up Python on a Windows 7 virtual machine that I had set up on my Mac. I don’t know why, but I always seem to have a problem installing Python and setting up the environment and so I’m going to document the process here so that in X months […]
Displaying English Districts in Google Earth
The other day at work, I was asked to find out how many X* were in a particular district in England. Given we seem to have SO MANY ways that we slice & dice the country up with Ceremonial Counties, Parliamentary Constituencies, Local Government Districts (which can be boroughs, cities or Royal Boroughs) you can see […]
Using Python & BeautifulSoup to scrape a Wikipedia table
Well, it was only a couple of weeks ago that I set myself a challenge to complete the Python course on Codecademy and I did it – I completed the Python track and it was fantastic! I was given the opportunity to put my newly found Python skills in to action this week as I needed […]
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