{"id":351,"date":"2015-06-01T08:14:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T08:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2015-06-01T08:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T08:14:21","slug":"pint-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/wp\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Pint of Science: Curious About the Housing Crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAs a follow-on to my earlier piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/2015\/05\/01\/hex-binning-land-registry-data\/\">Hex-Binning Land Registry Data<\/a>, here&#8217;s a talk I gave on the housing crisis as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pintofscience.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pint of Science Festival<\/a>\u00a0a couple of weeks back.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And, credit where credit is due: this builds on an idea I got from Mark Ruddy at UCL, who wanted to look at pricing change in London and used a hex-binning approach to mitigate the problem of very small postcodes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-385\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/pdfs\/Pint of Science-Tidy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pint-of-Science-Tidy-724x1024.png\" alt=\"Median price as multiple of regional income (full version is 20MB)\" width=\"560\" height=\"792\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Median price as multiple of regional income (full version is 20MB)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve done here is to scale that process up to all of England &amp; Wales (Scotland, sadly, does not appear to have this type of transaction data). The regional maps included in this talk are each coloured according to\u00a0<em>regional<\/em>\u00a0gross median income, which I obtained as part of a FOI request (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/343369\/foi-2014-3226.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014-3226<\/a>, since you ask).<\/p>\n<p>If you want to generate the same bins, then you&#8217;ll need the MMQGIS plug-in to generate a grid with the following properties: Left X=0; Bottom Y=0; Width=663,000; Height=1,230,000; H Spacing=750. That should give you a fairly nice layout and it&#8217;s quite handy that OSGB is measured from 0,0 so you don&#8217;t have to try to figure this all out in Lat\/Long.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the talk:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/jreades\/pint-of-science-48830055<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-on to my earlier piece on Hex-Binning Land Registry Data, here&#8217;s a talk I gave on the housing crisis as part of the Pint of Science Festival\u00a0a couple of weeks back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-geography","category-mapping","category-visualisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reades.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}