Highest Number of Persons Born in the UK, Living in Ireland-Census 2016
I was reading an article online the other day about Brexit and I got thinking about all the Irish people (myself included, at least for the next two weeks) that live in the UK. I’ve never heard much said about the people from the UK that live in the Republic. With no surprise, the border […]
Phoenix, Arizona
I was thinking the other day about the true size of Phoenix, Arizona and its sprawling suburbs. I wondered what this would look like overlaid on Dublin. The coordinate systems are different but the below overlay gives a good indication of its size in comparison to Dublin.
Commute to Work-Ireland
I was reading ‘Project Ireland 2040-National Planning Framework‘ and it got me thinking about what percentage of people in each ED commute for an hour or more to work. This is exactly the type of unsustainable living that needs to be avoided by promoting as much infill development as possible in existing urban centres. Below […]
Python-Quick Graph
I’ve never really had cause to use Matplotlib before so over the weekend I took a quick look at it and how useful it actually is for creating quick graphs. I took the electricity connections dataset (used as a measure of new homes built, however rough) and created a simple line graph. Below is the […]
Isochrones-Ireland and Australia
I was reading Topi Tjukanov’s fantastic post yesterday on how far you can drive in one hour from European capitals. This got me thinking, wouldn’t it be interesting to compare driving distance for somewhere in Ireland and somewhere in Australia. For Ireland I chose the geographic centre and for Australia I chose my fiancée’s home city of […]
Ireland, A Country in Motion: Methodology
I promised late last year that I’d do a blog post explaining how I created the ‘Ireland in Motion’ commuting map. Well, this is that post! The first thing to say is, that until the ’16 census results came out it wasn’t possible (as a member of the public) to create this type of map […]
Ireland-A Country in Motion: 1.96 Million Commutes
I was inspired by Alasdair Rae’s excellent work here, here and here to attempt something similar for Ireland. Below is the fruit of my labour over the last number of weeks. It shows 1.96 million individual commutes from every electoral division in Ireland. Commutes within a single electoral division are excluded. The data comes from the Irish Central […]
Global Human Settlement Layer-Cork
During the course of the last week I was reading the MacKinnon report (otherwise known by its succinct title of ‘Report of the Expert Advisory Group on Local Government Arrangements in Cork’). This is the report that address whether the administrative boundaries of Cork City Council should be changed. The report recommends a large expansion […]
Global Human Settlement Layer-Dublin
I’ve been taking a look recently at the Global Human Settlement Layer from the the European Commission. I’ve been working on a piece to do with the physical impact of the Celtic Tiger on Ireland, but in the meantime, I’ve put together a few fun GIFs using their built up data. This uses a combination […]
QGIS-Generating an Isochrone
Normally with somebody asks me to undertake a quick bit of analysis it usually involves, ‘Can I see all of x features that are with 2000m of this location?’. The other day I got asked: ‘Can you give me a spreadsheet showing all locations of x within a 12 minute drive of this location?’. I […]