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It’s been a rocky few months for the prison system in England and Wales. In December there was a riot at HMP Birmingham that lasted around 12 hours. Authorities had to send in Tornado teams to restore order. The bill for getting the prison back to normal, including moving inmates to other prisons and replacing locks, … Read More “Overcrowding in prison” »
Boxing Day is the most wonderful time of year for football fans. In Britain we have a traditional busy calendar of fixtures the day after Christmas. Television dictates that the matches no longer all kick off at 3pm on 26th December but this year we have 16 of the 20 Premier League clubs playing today. So … Read More “Where Does Your Team Rank in the Boxing Day League table?” »
Americans are voting today to choose their 45th president. Come January, Barack Obama will leave the White House after eight years as President of the United States. So how will he be remembered? Historians are already trying to place Obama in the rankings of US presidents. I took this list of 18 different surveys from Wikipedia. It … Read More “How Will Barack Obama Go Down in the Rankings of US Presidents?” »
Andy Murray was crowned as the world number one in men’s tennis for the first time today. The two-time Wimbledon champion has long been out on his own as Britain’s best male tennis player and now he’s managed to overhaul Novak Djokovic at the summit of the game. It took Andy Murray a lot longer … Read More “Andy Murray’s Long Road to the Top” »
In a few months time I will be turning 27 years old. This means that my 16-25 railcard, commonly known in Britain as a Young Person’s Railcard, won’t be valid any more. But you’re 26? I bought my railcard a few days before my 26th birthday, which means I can keep using it until a couple … Read More “How Much Money Has My Young Person’s Railcard Saved Me?” »
At the end of the last post, we had our data in a file named defective. The data contains all the injuries caused by car accidents where a road sign, signal or marking was obscured or not working properly from 2010 to 2015 (4,672 in total). To R or not to R? We could continue to … Read More “Dodgy Road Signs, Traffic Lights and Markings: Part Two” »
One of the most detailed UK government datasets I’ve ever seen is the STATS19 data from the Department for Transport. This is the collated reports of road accidents in Great Britain in which at least one person was injured or killed. It records all kinds of details, from the basics such as the date, time … Read More “Dodgy Road Signs, Traffic Lights and Markings: Part One” »
Walking through what’s left of the heart of the Jungle. The camp ‘Main St’ pic.twitter.com/8tYau41NST
— Gavin Lee (@GavinLeeBBC) October 26, 2016
With the Calais Jungle being broken up and most of the migrants there sent elsewhere in France, it seems a good time to return to the topic of asylum (although there is a difference between asylum and migration).
The last post came in for some criticism on /r/rstats, in particular from /u/fang_xianfu, who argued it merely showed that London has more people than the rest of the country.
In our previous two–part series we looked at the melt function from the reshape2 package. The creator of the package, Hadley Wickham, pointed me towards tidyr and the gather function as a better alternative instead.
