Category Archives: Data science

Up-to-date UK political polling data

Posted on May 31, 2017 by admin

I’ve created a web-service that supplies an automatically updated history of UK political polling data. Clicking on the link below will download an up-to-date Excel sheet containing the figures. UK Polling Data Excel Sheet Data sources The data comes from … Continue reading →

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UK Newspaper Headlines

Posted on January 17, 2017 by admin

Can you identify these UK newspapers from the words that occur most frequently in their front page headlines? I took all the 2016 front page headlines for seven UK newspapers and performed a word count. The graphs below show the … Continue reading →

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Who plumped for Trump?

Posted on November 22, 2016 by admin

As you may have heard, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. Much of the press reaction has concerned the search for the Trump voter, who has variously been identified as being white, male, rural, poor and living … Continue reading →

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Relative Age Effect – UK Athletics

Posted on October 2, 2016 by admin

Introduction In my previous post I examined the relative age effect in European football. The relative age effect describes how where your birthday falls in the year might affect your life chances. People who grow up as the oldest in their … Continue reading →

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Relative Age Effect – European Football

Posted on September 18, 2016 by admin

The Relative Age Effect refers to a bias in performance and participation due to selection periods, such as school years, with the oldest within an age group having an advantage over the youngest. It has been widely observed in academia … Continue reading →