I’ve posted before on this and I clearly didn’t know what I was doing. I still don’t really know what I’m doing but I now have some pretty pictures and that’s all anybody really wants. In this post I’m going to import a postcode shapefile from the OS, plot the postcodes in R, find the neighbours of each postcode and convert the data into a network graph. Github repository here.
Tag: UK
More mapping data in Excel
Quite a long time ago now I wrote a post on my map of UK postcode towns in Microsoft Excel based on various posts I had seen on clearandsimply.com. It turns out I do actually use this map quite a lot as it is very quick to use and doesn’t require any extra specialist software. So I thought I would revisit this. Read More
Land Registry Data
My computer has been struggling with some of the code I’ve been trying to run, it is pretty old and doesn’t have enough memory for large datasets in R. So rather than buy a better laptop I’ve set up an Amazon Web Service account and using this guide set up a computer so I don’t have to use mine. I’m only using the free one for now but if I want to have a go at processing something larger this will allow me to pay a small fee to use a more powerful machine for a short period of time.
Plotting shapefiles in R
After my last post on the ONS data structure this post is the first of a few on using that structure and some other public data, mostly UK government data, and mapping it using R. This first post is about getting shapefiles from various locations, loading them into R and plotting them.
Mapping UK Cities and Towns in Excel
Continuing my theme of recreating spreadsheets I’ve seen on Clearly and Simply I’ve had a go at making an Excel map of UK cities and towns that can be highlighted to find their combined population.