Anna’s blog

[...] choosing more unusual names during the last decade and a half. In 1996, the ONS reported 8,671 unique names for 649,488 babies, or roughly 74 babies for each name. By 2010, this had risen to 13,421 [...]

[...] choosing more unusual names during the last decade and a half. In 1996, the ONS reported 8,671 unique names for 649,488 babies, or roughly 74 babies for each name. By 2010, this had risen to 13,421 [...]

[...] . However, I’ve decided not to publish these for the moment, because my data only covers Anytime tickets and end-to-end routes, not every available journey, and it has holes in it, having been [...]

[...] . However, I’ve decided not to publish these for the moment, because my data only covers Anytime tickets and end-to-end routes, not every available journey, and it has holes in it, having been [...]

[...] price, with a frame of 100 datapoints. This is the code I used (on Github), and the resulting raw data (in Fusion Tables). The next logical step would be to plot distances against house prices, I [...]

[...] price, with a frame of 100 datapoints. This is the code I used (on Github), and the resulting raw data (in Fusion Tables). The next logical step would be to plot distances against house prices, I [...]

[...] has bizarrely fallen by 45%, from £26.90 to £14.90. What’s going on? You can find my raw data here – I scraped the fare increase in Anytime tickets on every end-to-end route [...]

[...] fallen by 45%, from £26.90 to £14.90. What’s going on? You can find my raw data here – I scraped the fare increase in Anytime tickets on every end-to-end route listed in [...]

[...] Focus came across individual fare increases of up to 11%, I have scraped data from National Rail Enquiries and found that some anytime fares rise today by as much as 20% – that’s four [...]

[...] on a weekday, scraped from TrainTimes, Matthew Somerville’s accessible version of National Rail Enquiries. For each station, find the mean asking price for a 3-bed house within 2km in the past 6 [...]

[...] on a weekday, scraped from TrainTimes, Matthew Somerville’s accessible version of National Rail Enquiries. For each station, find the mean asking price for a 3-bed house within 2km in the past 6 [...]

[...] Focus came across individual fare increases of up to 11%, I have scraped data from National Rail Enquiries and found that some anytime fares rise today by as much as 20% – that’s four [...]

[...] of Saturday afternoons struggling with a lot of zips. While working on this, I noticed some interesting trends. Firstly, all stores size in evenly spaced increments – because they are using [...]

[...] of Saturday afternoons struggling with a lot of zips. While working on this, I noticed some interesting trends. Firstly, all stores size in evenly spaced increments – because they are using [...]

[...] that would still be long enough to make a useful tool for British parents, and find some interesting trends. After all, the country has changed plenty since 1996. So I built a web app called, [...]

[...] that would still be long enough to make a useful tool for British parents, and find some interesting trends. After all, the country has changed plenty since 1996. So I built a web app called, [...]

[...] ) and 5 girls were named Jordan in 2010. Trends for the name Jordan since 1996 I analysed the ONS data to find the top rising and falling names over the period – both in absolute terms, and [...]

[...] ) and 5 girls were named Jordan in 2010. Trends for the name Jordan since 1996 I analysed the ONS data to find the top rising and falling names over the period – both in absolute terms, and [...]

[...] where a mansion has skewed the average price. (It’s difficult to tell from the Nestoria data.) But there’s a striking baseline below which house prices near a station never fall. [...]

[...] where a mansion has skewed the average price. (It’s difficult to tell from the Nestoria data.) But there’s a striking baseline below which house prices near a station never fall. [...]