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Development in Ireland
A topic that I think about frequently is the physical changes Ireland has gone through over the last 10 or 20 years. I’ve covered it before in this blog but I’m going to look at it again today. I think you could ask anybody around the country where the development in their town has been…
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Covid-19 Cases Ireland
I’ve been creating daily maps of Covid-19 cases in Ireland using the official Government source. I think proportional symbols and proper labelling lead to the best outcome.
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Peatlands of Ireland
I was thinking the other week about the amount of bogs around Europe after the collapse of a trial against turf cutters in Galway. I put the below map and tweet together in a few minutes that shows the peatlands of Europe. The outlines of Iceland, Ireland, Northern England, Scandinavia and Scotland are visible from…
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Airbnbs in Ireland
I was reading this Guardian article the other day where they produced maps showing the number of Airbnb listings per 100 dwellings. I thought it was really interesting and I hadn’t seen Airbnb data mapped like that before. I had a few hours to spare yesterday so I set about replicating their method for Ireland.…
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Irish Census 2016 & Privacy
I’ve been looking at the 2016 census results with the last few years and there is a great deal of suppression of values for relevant Small Areas. The CSO suppress results or aggregate them depending on the number of people living in a Small Area. If the population is too small and could lead to…
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Ireland’s Social Housing
Housing and all its intricacies have come to dominate the media discourse at home over the last few years. We’ve truly come out the other side of the recession and now the conversation is around the shortage of housing and where that has lead us. I’ve been thinking about this recently and in particular social…
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North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature
This week I was trying to recreate Joshua Steven’s Commanding Cartography. He presented this at NACIS 2018 and I was keen to give it a go. As I use Windows 10, the first step for me was to install Windows Subsystem for Linux and then install GDAL. I then used Wget to download the month…
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Australia-Durack Electoral Division
Like a lot of people, I spent a great deal of time following the 2019 federal election results. I was (and still am) very impressed with the Australian Electoral Commission’s Tally Room where results are easily available and downloadable. It was while I was browsing their site that I came across the Western Australian federal…