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Recently I have switched my research towards the relationship between agriculture and greenhouse gas emissions. We all need to eat and climate change is our biggest problem, so why wouldn’t I? Malcolm and I are working on the effects of … Continue reading →

Eurostat has published the year on year changes in house prices in European countries. I have used Tableau to visualize them. The darker the green, the greater the positive change. Red or pink means a drop (so sorry La France). … Continue reading →

Just started learning how use Tableau for mapping. First effort uses World Bank figures on train use and car ownership. Click on the map tab top right. Use the sliders to the right of the map to change the parameters. … Continue reading →

Just had an article published which concerns the prediction of just which students are going to take up their offers of a university place. Registrars spend $$$ sending out offer letters to students who don’t show up. I use GIS … Continue reading →

The 1836 Tithe Commutation Commission files contain a huge amount of highly useful data, including the pastoral rents and yields of some parishes in the south-west of England. I want to see how the rent changed with distance from the … Continue reading →

The yields of crops such as wheat are clearly affected by the amount of moisture available in the soil, as well as the temperature. More if generally better, but up to a point. Yields increase and then drop off. It … Continue reading →

Trying to predict stockmarket prices over time is a bit like the old alchemists. Being told that you can’t do it just makes you try harder. Here is a plot of the NYSE in 1996. The code etc is on … Continue reading →