Historic UK Rainfall Data The Met Office Hadley Centre holds (Met Office Hadley Centre observations datasets HadUKP) UK Rainfall Data going back to the 1800s. It records the daily average rain fall for 9 regions around England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. You can download the data from here: Met Office Hadley Centre HadUKP Data… Read More »
The CoViD-19 global pandemic has thrust modelling and analysis into the public eye in a way rarely seen before. One particular example is the CoViD model developed by MRC-IDE, which was a contributor to the UK response to the pandemic. The research team behind this model published their code on GitHub. As might be expected… Read More »
Machine learning is an essential part of data science – a field which covers a range of activities from data acquisition and cleaning, through to analytics and data visualisation. It can be helpful to think in terms of a machine learning workflow that puts some structure around some of these processes. This post looks at… Read More »
Data science can mean different things to different people, but we can try to define it by the techniques a data scientist tends to use. A recent online poll gave a top 10 of algorithms and methods used by Data Scientists. This post goes through that top 10 list of data science techniques to flesh… Read More »
There are times when a problem seems so complex, and so complicated that it is impossible to know where to start. This situation is are sometimes referred to as a ‘mess‘. There may be many people involved, with different perspectives on how to proceed, or with vested interests they want a solution to address. It… Read More »