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Which London borough has the worst pubs? (CityMetric)

Post author By Ed
Post date September 11, 2019
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Some extremely important data journalism on where to find the worst pubs in London.

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Here’s the longest you could get trapped in the train doors for on every London Underground line (CityMetric)

Post author By Ed
Post date July 22, 2019
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A man got stuck in the doors for a significant length of the Northern Line so I attempted to work out the longest possible you could get stuck like that on the entire tube network.

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Do British cities have grid systems? We used science to find out (CityMetric)

Post author By Ed
Post date July 25, 2018
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I used OSMnx, Geoff Boeing’s amazing Python library for analysing street networks, to look at how orderly the streets are in various UK towns and cities.

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12 things we learned by reading every single National Rail timetable (CityMetric)

Post author By Ed
Post date March 1, 2018
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I did some data-mining to work out what longest sequence of stops in progressive alphabetical order within a single rail journey is, among other thrilling train-based statistics.

I then performed a live version of the piece at the British Library.

https://twitter.com/susiestevenson/status/968939806989406208

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How does the humble street bollard connect Napoleon to Carillion via Welsh devolution? (CityMetric)

Post author By Ed
Post date January 22, 2018
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I considered the street bollard and its importance in history, art and politics.

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16 things we learned from a list of every single road name in Great Britain (CityMetric)

Post author By Ed
Post date January 20, 2018
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There are about 790,000 roads with names in Great Britain – I got a list of all them from Ordnance Survey and did some number-crunching. Then stopped number-crunching and looked for the rude ones.