Peter Wurmsdobler conduced an analysis on UK Prime Minister's pledge that "Wind farms could power every home by 2030" [BBC](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54421489). While Peter was certain that the Prime Minister had been well advised...
Solving Britain’s housing crisis requires rich, robust and regularly updated local data about the housing stock and how people move through it. However, no traditional data resource ticks all these boxes. In this story, we describe how CDRC data...
In this study, we used data on human mobility to explore the activity patterns in the neighbourhoods of Greater London as they emerged from the first wave of national lockdown measures in summer 2020. The anonymised smartphone location data...
Covid-19 has strained already insufficient Local Authorities resources, with infection and transmission of Covid-19 further exacerbating existing social inequalities. Four CDRC academic researchers have been working using the Office for National...
Testing has become a way of life as we begin to learn how to live with COVID-19. We have previously described [who got tested when initially piloting the provision of free lateral flow tests](https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/stories/who-gets-tested-when-...
One of the main issues limiting our ability to manage the COVID-19 pandemic has been the difficulty in monitoring the spread of COVID-19 among people without symptoms (i.e., asymptomatic). While individuals with symptoms may socially distance,...
Using open data alongside transactions data, Ph.D. candidate Jakub Wyszomierski explored online purchasing behaviour of “Help for Heroes” customers. The data provider was interested to learn of any spatial and temporal variation in sales, and...
British high streets are subject to unstable and challenging socio-economic conditions brought about by the 2008 recession, high business rates, competition from online retailers and the COVID-19 global pandemic. Abigail Hill explores the...
Successful roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines requires complex logistical delivery to help ensure everyone can receive their dose. England has established over 1700 vaccination sites distributed across the country to help provide vaccines to the...
See “named” which maps relative concentrations of particular surnames, in the UK. You can map your own surname to see where in the UK it is most popular.