Dabbling with Data

Those of us who write code can, and should, be thankful for the existence and popularity of code version control systems.

There’s been a claim made over at least the past couple of years by all manner of sources that vast swathes of the working-age UK population have exited the workforce because long-term illness has apparently rendered them incapable of work.

I’m late to discovering this, but in case I’m not the last: In what might be a data analyst’s best gift of the year 2023, I recently learned that you can now stop Microsoft Excel from automatically “recognising” and converting certain types of data to oth…

Today sees the big vote by our British Parliamentarians on introducing a law to allow for assisted dying taking place.

Geographic location analysis has been an important subset of data analysis since time immemorial.

Earlier this year the UK had a General Election, which, in many quarters, was declared a landslide victory for Labour.

I recently wanted to use some data I found in a Wikipedia article for analysis in R.

Following the surprise, albeit much needed, announcement of a UK general election, I’ve not been able to resist hoovering up any and all available data on the political dynamics of the situation.

When creating basic multiple regression models, if your predictor variables correlate with each other this usually presents a problem in that you can end up with unstable estimates for the resulting coefficients.

It might seem a small thing, but I noticed that a recent update of the Snowflake database now allows you to have a trailing comma at the end of the SQL’s SELECT statement.