In Aberdeen, read about the sister who died on the sinking of SS Ceramic in 1942 – less than a year after volunteering for service. www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...
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In Aberdeen, read about the sister who died on the sinking of SS Ceramic in 1942 – less than a year after volunteering for service. www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...
We also highlight some of the stories hidden within the lists of name like that of one of the youngest casualties who died aged 15.
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We also mapped out the known addresses to allow readers to find personal connections to the past sacrifices.
But the above shows only a portion of the 1,883 people who died in Dundee. Each poppy represents a name on the Second World War honour roll, shown alphabetically. The poppy size indicates year of death and the stem length shows the age. #dataviz #datajournalism
The 80th anniversary of VE Day is around the corner - so it is a good time to pay respect to the sacrifice of thousands of men and women in the Second World War. I took a look at roll of honour data for Dundee and Aberdeen. To emphasise the scale of loss I built a memorial garden using D3.js
A page of 52 thumbnail images of government websites that are no longer available.
Effective and creative data visualization in the form of a full page piece in the WaPo today to show how Trump/Musk are dismantling government.
"You must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman,” Jane Austen wrote in 1813 and I feel that sentiment persists. That is why I chose to use embroidery - deemed simply "fancy work" during Jane Austen's time despite often taking a lot more skill than this simple #dataviz
I decided to join this month's Journal Dataviz Challenge and visualise the Women in The Nobel Prize with a slightly different format. Each pair of petals represents a single woman who won the prize from 1901 to 2024. The more women winning a year, the flower grows fuller. #dataviz
We also looked at top names within local authorities.
Find out the most popular names in Tayside, Fife and Stirling in 2024 www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5199...
🎼Or which pop girlie has sung her way into the hearts of recent parents?
Read the full story including the list of all names used in Scotland in 2024: www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5204...
Olivia is back to the top of the list of baby names for girls in Scotland - for the seventh time. Scotland's annual baby name data has been released for 2024 and we dove into the naming trends, including...
📉Is it the end of the line for Colin?
📈Maeve hits the trends list
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It's easy to look at our maps from earlier in this series and think that the crashes are fairly evenly distributed - that's why we created a heatmap that highlights the density of crashes around a 1km radius.
#ddj #dataviz #datajournalism
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The article also takes a closer look at how many crashes happen in rural versus urban sections of the road. Once again QGIS was use to find all the crashes overlapping with or immediately adjacent to settlements defined by Scottish Government Spatial Data on Localities. 3/4
Shows one of the heatmap blackspots for three tightly clustered crashes near Colpy on the A96.
The heatmap is based on the density of crashes within a one-kilometre radius. Larger numbers or more closely clustered crashes within that radius appear with a darker shade, like this one found near Morgan McVeighs restaurant in Insch with three crashes. 2/4 #ddj #datajournalism
The A96 accident blackspots between Aberdeen and Huntly with 6 labelled clusters.
A96 accident blackspot heatmap shown from Huntly to Nairn.
The A96 crash blackspots heatmap from Nairn to Inverness.
We have analysed when crashes happen on the A96, but today we want to provide a better answer for the question of where they happen. Using QGIS I created a heatmap along the road from Aberdeen to Inverness showing clustered accident blackspots. 1/4 #dataviz
As part of our analysis, we’ve looked at:
• Accident severity of crashes on the A96
• The demographics of drivers involved in crashes
• The 282 casualties between 2019 and 2023
• When, where and times of day where the most accidents happen
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To tackle a data lag, our crash tracker will combine official data and information on crashes covered by the @pressandjournal.co.uk live team - bringing a comprehensive picture where and when accidents are happening. 2/3 www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/tran...
Fourteen fatal crashes, 89 serious crashes and 76 slight collisions. That is the breakdown of the 179 accidents on the A96 between 2019 and 2023 as we launch our latest investigation. Throughout the week we will have exclusive analysis on the road running between Aberdeen & Inverness. #dataviz 1/3
But what about Hogmanay itself? A station in Orkney comes first with 49mm in a single day. The map below shows all the stations that had more than 30mm of rain on Hogmanay. I used R to access and compare the data for all stations on the SEPA API.
After an amber weather alert for rain on New Year's Eve, I am kicking off the year with some rainfall analysis. Some monitoring stations across Moray and the Highlands saw their wettest December on record - with one even breaking a record set in 1999. www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/6661...
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So from match points to data points, delve into the career of Scotland's favourite tennis player #AndyMurray #dataviz www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/512...
Shows grid of charts. Each grid shows Andy Murray's average first serve speed at Grand Slams broken down by round, where the seventh round is the finals while the first is the round of 128.
This Sankey chart breaks down Andy Murray's tournaments on carpet, clay, green and hard courses into wins and loses. Over the course of his career, Murray won 79.07% of his grass court matches or 136 of the 172 matches. Murray won almost three quarters (74.03%) of his hard court matches or 553 of the 747 matches.
Top Trump card showing Andy Murray's stats against top faced competitor Novak Djokovic
We have a racquet heatmap, tennis ball scatter plots, hand drawn Top Trump cards of his top competitors, and a court Sankey - in other words we needed to showcase the UK tennis legend's career in style and we, like Andy, brought our A game. #dataviz #tennis #ddj
This gif shows a section of a line chart demonstrating Andy Murray's ATP ranking over the years.
A heatmap showing the percentage of tournament matches that Andy Murray won by year and round shown on a tennis racquet.
After a 19-year career, Andy Murray officially retired this year and we could think of no better way to celebrate his legacy but through #dataviz. So from his rise through the ranks to world No 1 to the speed of his serve, we look at the data on his achievements #AndyMurray.
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Some hand drawn #dataviz I made in October📊 . The sun will set in Glasgow at 3.45pm today but we are in the last stretch of the nights getting longer. In just over two weeks the minutes of light will start to creep up again ☀
Read the full analysis 📊
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Map shows the high street units on George Street and St John's Place. While George Street has more vacant units (indicated with red), it has more than four times the number of units. George Street only has three vacant units and St John's Place has none (occupied shown in blue).
These to radial charts compare the composition of George Street (left) and St John's Place (right). It demonstrates that St John's Place consists of solely Food and Drink and a tenth of it is hair and beauty. Meanwhile, the top four categories of shopping, services, hair and beauty, and, food and drink don't even show the full composition of George Street. However shopping is its biggest category.
As we look at the changes over the course of the year, we decided to focus on the two most occupied streets - George Street and St John's Place. The latter has remained fully occupied the entire year. #dataviz
Shows two bar charts side by side for December 2023 and November 2024. The bar widths show the total number of units. High Street has the most units but it has fallen from third most vacant to sixth. However there are more streets with vacancy rates of 20% or more than there were in 2023.
This slope chart shows how vacancy rates on Perth's high streets fluctuated from census to census over 2024. However this chart highlights the average across all high streets. It started at 16.39% in December of last year and it was 17.71% in November of 2024.
We have been tracking Perth's high streets for a year now. But how has the Fair City changed over the course of 12 months? The average vacancy rate in Perth increased slightly since 2023, but fell or remained at 0% for five out of nine tracked streets. #dataviz #ddj #datajournalism