The Crown drives viewers to Wikipedia in search of history

less than 1 minute read

Published: November 30, 2019

When the latest series of the TV series The Crown was released in late 2019 one episode was set against the disaster that occurred in the Welsh mining town Aberfan in 1966. And everyone turned to a rarely-visited page on Wikipedia.

Visits to Wikipedia 'Aberfan disaster' page in mid-November 2019

Sources & notebooks

The repo with all the data and python notebook is here

How to query the Sky-Tortoise Westminster database

9 minute read

Published: April 23, 2024

The Westminster money database was published by Sky and Tortoise and brings together money going to parties, to all-party parliamentary groups and directly to MPs.

Algorithm to suggest food inspections abandoned

4 minute read

Published: March 01, 2024

UK food inspectors have abandoned plans to use an algorithm in part of their food hygiene rating system after a £100,000 trial.

Mapping Council wards for 2022 local elections

less than 1 minute read

Published: April 06, 2022

Local elections are coming so we need maps.

Google Sheets walkthrough

2 minute read

Published: May 01, 2021

How to get a CSV (comma separated values) file into a spreadsheet using Google Sheets and get working with it.

Aidan O'Donnell