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Particularly useful in the time of COVID-19 – how visualise different local rates around the UK.
It’s time to branch out into a new area of data visualisation: proportion area plots. These plots use area to show proportion between different related values. A common type of proportional area plots are tree maps. We are going to be using the same principle but with circles. A common subject for area visualisation is … Read More “Spring Budget 2017: Circle visualisation” »
In the last post we discussed annotations on line plots.
In this post, we are going to take it a step further and look at block annotations.
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Strikes don’t really happen too much in Britain any more. A total of 170,000 working days were lost in Britain due to strikes and industrial action in 2015. That might sound like a lot, but it was actually the second lowest on record. And this record goes back to 1891 – one of the longest … Read More “The History of Strikes in Britain, Told Using Line Plots and Annotations” »
My colleagues and I at Trinity Mirror ranked mental health around England on Monday for World Mental Health Day.
We aggregated four datasets – depression, contact with mental health services, the recovery rate from anxiety and depression and antidepressant prescriptions – to produce a mental health ranking for all 209 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England.
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After looking at Manchester’s flat boom, we’re going over t’Pennines to Leeds, or more accurately the LS postcode for Leeds and the surrounding area.
Any visitor to Manchester city centre will be struck by the number of modern blocks of city centre flats.
Take the tram out towards Altrincham and you’ll see modern apartment blocks on both sides, out towards Salford and back towards Castlefield.
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In my previous post, I showed how poorer children are more likely to be fat. Think about how your graphics look on a mobile phone before you publish them. I didn’t do this properly with my last post – I published it first and then checked how it looked on mobile. That isn’t the best approach – and it … Read More “Make Your Labels Legible on Mobile” »
Poorer children are more likely to be fat.
As we move further to the right of the chart into schools in more deprived areas, the share of children in the grey and black parts of the chart – showing overweight and very overweight kids – gets bigger.
This means that a class of year six children in inner-city Manchester will likely have bigger waistlines than one in leafy Hampshire.
A combination of bad diets and a lack of exercise means poorer children are sadly more likely to be fat at just 10 or 11 years old, with all the health problems that brings now and stores up for the future.
On Wikipedia’s page for the 2015/16 Premier League, it has a matrix table of results.
It shows you all the results for each team, home and away against each other.
For example, if you look at Arsenal on Row 1, they beat Aston Villa 4-0 at the Emirates but lost their home match against Chelsea 0-1.
