Kneading to relax: exploring lockdown baking trends
With millions confined to their homes, bread making started trending in 2020. Analysing data from Reddit reveals some interesting facts about the sourdough community [...]
Exploring QGIS for visualising maps
I recently left my old job and my team gave me an amazing book with 100 maps of London. Feeling inspired, I wanted to explore some mapping tools for geospatial data. This blog shows some of my experiments using QGIS, an extensive open source desktop software. [...]
Germany’s most popular audio drama in numbers
Die drei ??? (the three investigators) is Germany's most popular audio drama. As a huge fan and data lover, I wanted to explore the show in more detail while also learning some new data science skills. This is what I found [...]
How to better communicate research – learnings from a redesign project
When I started managing the UK Civil Society Almanac - an annual report on the charity sector - the project website and print publication felt outdated and incoherent while the content had almost become a copy and paste exercise. I was tasked with a redesign and this blog summarises what I learned. [...]