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Sienna, Rihanna, Cameron and Usama: Baby names in England and Wales 25 Apr 2012 | 11:31 pm
If you are a parent, or soon to be a parent, you may already have discovered the US’s Baby Name Voyager. It’s a data-visualization classic, a wonderful way to bring 100 years of American baby names to...
Introducing… What Size Am I 20 Jan 2012 | 01:40 am
For many women, there are few things more frustrating than trying on clothes. To put it in terms that my (mostly male) coder friends will understand: debugging CSS doesn’t come close to the blood-boil...
Forget 5.9% – some train fares rise today by four times inflation 3 Jan 2012 | 12:29 am
Today, rail fares go up by an inflation-busting average of 5.9%, to howls of outrage from commuters and groups like Passenger Focus. But what many people don’t realise is that 5.9% is just an average....
Train times v. house prices: the commuter belt, on a graph 14 Oct 2011 | 03:16 am
We’re house-hunting. And for me, like most coders, house-hunting involves lots and lots and lots of screen-scraping. As well as crawling Rightmove listings, I’ve been looking at transport and house-p...
