Data and Tech

Data Sources

All the data I use on this site is from publicly available sources. My favourite ones are:

OECD Data – For GDP, demographics, economic indicators for OECD countries.

data.gov.uk  – For all UK-related government data.

ONS  – Office of National Statistics (UK)

OBR  – Office of Budget Responsibility (UK) (Not sure if free of political bias)

Police Data   – All crime data for the UK at local level, monthly over many years.

Electoral Commission  – Data on UK elections and referendums.

Nomisweb  – Labour market data by the Office of National Statistics

Tech

Currently

I use a full version of MicroStrategy which I keep up to date version-wise. For data wrangling I use Excel, MySql and the MicroStrategy data wrangling functions.

I run everything on a nice laptop with 16GB of RAM.

Future Aspirations

Augmented Analytitcs, AI, ML