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Month: November 2017

Road accidents in November

Posted on November 26, 2017November 26, 2017 By Rob
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Recently the British Department for Transport published its latest STATS19 data for the year 2016. We’ve looked at this data before. To recap, each row of the STATS19 data is a traffic accident that caused injury or death, identified by a unique Accident Index. It’s an extremely detailed dataset containing fields such as the latitude … Read More “Road accidents in November” »

Vandalism Causing Train Delays

Posted on November 19, 2017 By Rob
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Over the past two weeks I’ve been looking at Network Rail’s delays data. The data tells us how many delays there have been to trains thanks to all kinds of problems that affect the railways, from natural causes such as that seasonal favourite ‘leaves on the line‘ to human causes such as vandalism. There are … Read More “Vandalism Causing Train Delays” »

The Losses in the Final Year of WW1

Posted on November 11, 2017 By Rob
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Back in August 2014, around the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, the Data Unit published our analysis of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission‘s records of fallen soldiers, airmen, sailors and other servicemen and women who gave their lives during the next four years. As the 100th anniversaries have come and … Read More “The Losses in the Final Year of WW1” »

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