Show HN: Visualising London, ward by ward

http://alexander-brett.co.uk/2016/06/01/Visualising-London.html

by ali0sha • 10 years ago

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XJOKOLAT• 10 years ago

As someone who gets stuck more in data/spreadsheets - this has given me something interesting to think about.

Not much to add except a thanks for the blog post about it and for broadening my scope.

jsingleton• 10 years ago

Nice visualisation.

The data source site (http://data.london.gov.uk) is really good too. Click the circles for more data. For example, the recycling one reveals air quality info. I can see why they won an ODI award (http://theodi.org/news/odi-2015-award-winners). Much better than the national one (https://data.gov.uk).

ali0sha3• 10 years ago

Yeah it is surprisingly excellent - it was a big inspiration for doing this side project!

brudgers2• 10 years ago

For me, the legends do not correlate well with the visualizations and made it difficult to interpret the data. I only saw two sizes and these did not correlate well with the sizes on the visualization. Maybe it's a function of my using other sizing parameters than land area?

ali0sha3• 10 years ago

Maybe raise an issue on https://github.com/alexander-brett/alexander-brett.github.io and I can look into your exact issue? Thanks for the feedback.

brudgers2• 10 years ago

It's not a bug. It's a design issue of the legend not explaining the output in a way that works for me. Anyway, it's ok with me to enter into the bug tracking system on my behalf.

conjectures• 10 years ago

Nicely done! It would be good to see more up-to-date data. E.g. 2015/6 unemployment data would be much more useful than 2011. London Datastore may have this?

ali0sha3• 10 years ago

I think the years there are the most up-to-date available for those particular axes - certainly the unemployment data is sourced from the census which is only carried out once a decade.

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