A list of all my blog posts

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All blogposts

• Fortress London 20 May 2022 Regional growth Politics Local power
• Empty homes for good. 28 Mar 2022 Housing
• North England vs. The Netherlands. 21 Mar 2022 Regional growth Economics
• Ilkley and Islington. 18 Feb 2022 Regional growth
• Measures matter. 13 Dec 2021 Data Inequality Economics
• GB Public Transport Isochrones 19 Nov 2021 Transport Data
• Brownfield first! 17 Oct 2021 Housing Data
• Why local? 14 Oct 2021 Local power
• The rise of French Tech 9 Jul 2021 Technology Politics
• What is the UK? 27 Mar 2021 The UK
• Miserabalism 17 Mar 2021 France Health Data
• Precaution 17 Mar 2021 Health
• Bins and the law. 13 Feb 2021 Local power Data Technology
• Styles 10 Jan 2021 Technology
• Constitutional vandalism 31 Dec 2020 Local power The UK
• Regional inequality in Europe, and within its countries 23 Nov 2020 Economics Productivity Regional growth
• Measuring regional inequality 22 Nov 2020 Economics Productivity Regional growth
• Where pupils in England get free school meals. 23 Oct 2020 Data
• Working with housing data, not in Excel 12 Oct 2020 Data Housing
• Building The Data City 30 Sept 2020 Data Technology Regional growth The UK
• Saving lives by failing to save lives. 21 Jul 2020 Politics Local power
• Systembolaget and ML.NET 27 Jun 2020 Technology AI
• West Yorkshire Devolution 22 Jun 2020 Politics Local power
• How great data could power a Great British recovery 22 Jun 2020 France Data
• Covid-19 and deprivation in England 15 Jun 2020 Data Covid-19 Inequality
• Covid-19 and deprivation in England 8 May 2020 Data Covid-19 Inequality
• The best app I (n)ever built. 1 May 2020 Tech for Good Technology Politics
• The most exciting place in the world! 19 Apr 2020 Other
• R&D and Google Mobility. 13 Apr 2020 Technology R&D
• Coronavirus response in the UK and France 11 Apr 2020 Data Politics France The UK Covid-19
• Letting succesful places fail. 5 Feb 2020 Regional growth R&D
• Bus use data. 10 Dec 2019 Transport Data
• Skype for climate 26 Oct 2019 Tech for good Technology
• New data for innovation policy 23 Mar 2019 Innovation AI
• CityMapper and the state. 4 Mar 2019 Technology Data Local power
• Taste tests 3 Mar 2019 Data Food
• What I use. 22 Feb 2019 Technology
• Trickle out works: inequality in Greater Manchester. 16 Feb 2019 Inequality
• Who is blocking local development? 9 Feb 2019 Housing Local power Regional growth
• Parliament's digital work matters 22 Dec 2018 Data
• Tech for Good? 1 Nov 2018 Tech for Good
• Naming places, and the role of government. 12 Oct 2018 Geography Data Local power
• Wellcome Trust. 6 Oct 2018 R&D
• Beyond BCR. 11 Sept 2018 Transport Data Local power Economics Regional growth
• A better debate on transport. 21 Aug 2018 Transport Data Economics
• Making the case for agglomeration. 6 Aug 2018 Economics Regional Growth
• Inventing a democratic vocabulary to free us from the tyranny of experts — algorithms in government. 29 Jun 2018 AI Tech for Good
• Are Northerners poor because we’re thick? 19 Jun 2018 Regional growth Intelligence
• Heathrow two. 24 May 2018 Brexit Economics The EU
• Rage against the machine. 10 May 2018 Local power
• A Brexit bonus? 10 May 2018 Local power Economics Brexit The EU Regional growth
• Kill ODS. Devolve GDS. 30 Apr 2018 Design Technology
• Free bus passes for under 25s? 12 Apr 2018 Transport Politics
• Are lives in Tottenham worth less? 6 Apr 2018 Local power Data
• Pounds, passports, procurement, protectionism? 29 Mar 2018 Regional growth Economics
• Sheffield's trees and taking back control 25 Mar 2018 Local power
• Boosting R&D in the UK 22 Mar 2018 R&D Regional growth
• R&D Royal Rumble: Manchester vs. Oxford 28 Feb 2018 Regional growth Agglomeration R&D
• Usefully daft: alphabetical public transport. 12 Feb 2018 Transport Data
• What's wrong with French democracy? 29 Jan 2018 Politics France
• Productivity and patrie. 17 Jan 2018 France Productivity Economics
• Where trust in experts dies. 2 Dec 2017 Politics Data Transport
• All my blog posts 2 Dec 2017 Other
• Pacers and The Art of the Possible 20 Nov 2017 Transport
• One Nobel Prize and a Yorkshire transport policy. 17 Nov 2017 Transport
• Global Open Data 23 Oct 2017 Data PDFs
• Experts got it wrong. 22 Sept 2017 Politics Local power Data
• Learning from London 21 Sept 2017 Transport
• Fixing it ourselves: open data on bus journeys in Leeds 20 Sept 2017 Local power Regional growth
• Science and PDFs 19 Sept 2017 PDFs Technology
• Open data struggles 15 Sept 2017 Data Technology Design
• PDFAttacher 2 Sept 2017 PDFs
• Leeds Growth Strategy 5 28 Jul 2017 Economics Local power Regional growth Inequality
• Leeds Growth Strategy 4 28 Jul 2017 Economics Local power Regional growth Inequality
• Leeds Growth Strategy 3 28 Jul 2017 Economics Local power Regional growth Inequality
• Leeds Growth Strategy 2 28 Jul 2017 Economics Local power Regional growth Inequality
• Leeds Growth Strategy 1 28 Jul 2017 Economics Local power Regional growth Inequality
• Defending the zombie graph 26 Jul 2017 Transport Economics
• Measuring tech: in France and the UK 16 Jul 2017 R&D Data Technology
• More problems with the PAF 15 Jul 2017 Data
• Emulating Ireland 15 Jul 2017 Education Economics Regional growth
• Fares data will be hard. 9 Jul 2017 Data Transport
• Simple innovations 7 Jul 2017 Economics
• Why Channel 4 should move to Manchester 5 Jul 2017 Local power Economics Regional growth
• iPhones and folk tales 1 Jul 2017 Competition policy Technology
• Regulators and markets 28 Jun 2017 Competition policy Technology
• Transport Complexity 20 Jun 2017 Local power Data Transport
• Time lags in innovation 19 Jun 2017 Transport R&D
• More than Meetup 14 Jun 2017 Data AI
• Academic Output 14 Jun 2017 AI R&D
• The fiscal balance of power 10 Jun 2017 Economics Local power
• PDF for planners 17 May 2017 PDFs
• Hybrid PDFs 13 May 2017 PDFs Housing
• PDF Tests 11 May 2017 PDFs
• A Clearer Plan 8 May 2017 Housing PDFs
• What powers? 3 May 2017 Local power
• Politics, trust, and GDS 1 May 2017 Politics Technology Design
• Not like London 27 Apr 2017 Regional growth
• Investment is political 20 Apr 2017 Transport Regional growth
• Loving and hating UWP 14 Apr 2017 Technology
• The most important graph 14 Apr 2017 Regional growth Agglomeration
• Hartlepool and Redcar 2 Mar 2017 Local power Economics Regional growth
• ODCamp 4: Cardiff 20 Feb 2017 Data
• Imitating Manchester 20 Feb 2017 Regional growth Politics
• The centre of the UK 20 Feb 2017 Transport Data
• Moving to Manchester 16 Feb 2017 Regional growth
• ONS household count estimates are wrong 9 Feb 2017 Data Housing
• Defending Uber 6 Feb 2017 Transport Data Local power Economics
• Counting households 4 Feb 2017 Data Housing
• Calderdale's digital strategy 1 Feb 2017 Data
• Imagination not needed: part 3 30 Jan 2017 Regional growth Politics Economics
• Time is money, but how much money? 27 Jan 2017 Transport Data
• Imagination not needed: part 2 16 Jan 2017 Regional growth Politics Economics
• Imagination not needed: part 1 16 Jan 2017 Regional growth Politics Economics
• PubQuest Birmingham 29 Dec 2016 Data Food
• Inclusive growth 20 Dec 2016 Inequality
• Open data in Birmingham 12 Dec 2016 Birmingham Data
• The housing market works, where we let it 7 Dec 2016 Housing Economics
• Tap to Pay 6 Dec 2016 Transport Design Politics Local power
• The right decision, taken in the wrong way. 2 Dec 2016 Transport Local power
• Industrial strategy in the UK 2 Dec 2016 R&D Regional growth
• The UK and the Euro 1 Dec 2016 Politics Economics
• Fifa is the right’s Venezuela. 24 Nov 2016 Politics
• Leeds is the best city 24 Oct 2016 Data
• Why devolution? 6 Oct 2016 Politics Local power
• Five years in Manchester 30 Jul 2016 Local power Economics Regional growth
• The definition of insanity 3 Jun 2016 The EU Brexit
• Thinking BIM at ODILeeds 1 Jun 2016 Technology Data
• My positive case for the EU. 1 Jun 2016 Politics The EU
• Let Northerners build a global Tech Nation 19 May 2016 Technology Politics
• The mathematics of inequality 17 May 2016 Data Inequality Economics
• ONS Consultation on Country and Regional Public Sector Finances 16 May 2016 Data Regional growth
• The Leeds trolleybus decision is a disaster for Londoners 13 May 2016 Transport Regional growth
• The GDP mystery 17 Apr 2016 Economics The EU
• DHEZ Solutions 1 8 Apr 2016 Health Technology
• Euro Voters part 2 29 Mar 2016 The EU Politics
• What is London? 3 Mar 2016 Local power
• Euro voters 29 Feb 2016 The EU Politics
• Tech transitions 17 Feb 2016 Technology Design
• A year in Birmingham 1 Feb 2016 Local power Economics Regional growth Inequality
• How (not?) to build a TechNation 25 Jan 2016 Technology Politics
• Avalanche 25 Jan 2016 Education
• #BBCDataDay 21 Jan 2016 Data
• Building a TechNation 19 Jan 2016 Technology Politics
• SimFlood 31 Dec 2015 Data Technology
• Car-free Birmingham 15 Dec 2015 Transport
• Nicky Morgan 27 Nov 2015 Education
• 29/10/2015 ODI Node Summit (Tom Forth, ODILeeds notes) 30 Oct 2015 Other
• The State of the North 28 Oct 2015 Local power
• Steel and the free market 20 Oct 2015 Local power Economics R&D
• Come say hello! 16 Oct 2015 Data
• Where do you take my bike lights? 12 Oct 2015 Transport
• 1975 WY Metro Plan 6 Oct 2015 Transport
• Child poverty and university access 18 Sept 2015 Education Data Politics
• Our reponsibilities 31 Jul 2015 Politics
• Centralism is like Santa Claus 30 May 2015 Local power
• Bring on the NorthernPowerhouse 28 May 2015 Local power Regional growth
• Leeds Site Allocations 11 Apr 2015 Housing
• We must cherish our Capital 1 Apr 2015 Local power
• Stay inside the bubble 12 Mar 2015 Design
• Northern Rail and TPE Consultation 5 Mar 2015 Transport Local power
• Researching R&D 24 Feb 2015 R&D
• Summing it up 23 Dec 2014 R&D Local power Politics
• Tom's Cartoons 1 Dec 2014 Regional growth
• The UK's real hub airport 17 Nov 2014 Transport Regional growth
• The Poorest Regions in Northern Europe 9 Oct 2014 Productivity Regional growth
• Saving the Union. 8 Sept 2014 Economics Politics
• The Bird Index 19 Aug 2014 Data
• Playful Everywhere! 18 Aug 2014 Play R&D
• More things for Leeds! 18 Aug 2014 Regional growth Leeds
• London’s skills shortage. 11 Aug 2014 Regional growth Politics
• Is London holding us back? 4 Aug 2014 Local power Economics Regional growth
• 10 things London can shove up its a%se 5 Jun 2014 Local power
• Building a really simple Chrome extension 25 May 2014 Technology
• Should we even try to engage with NIMBYs? 16 Apr 2014 Housing
• Yorkshire Backwards 9 Apr 2014 Politics Local power
• Listen less. Do more! 26 Feb 2014 Design
• Dr. Adonis is wrong 21 Jan 2014 Local power Economics Politics
• Part of the problem: The Economist on Scotland. 18 Jan 2014 The UK
• We've never even tried 2 Jan 2014 Economics Local power Transport R&D
• The BBC's other Bias 2 Jan 2014 Local power
• Why I hate Webkit 28 Oct 2013 Technology
• Mostly Right but Badly Wrong. 17 Oct 2013 Regional growth The Economist
• Easy Wins for Microsoft 7 Sept 2013 Technology Microsoft
• Rail Geography 22 Aug 2013 Transport
• What has the EU ever done? 6 Aug 2013 Other
• Sponsored tube 2 Aug 2013 Transport Local power
• Making Science more Vital 2 Aug 2013 Science Local power
• PhD Page 2 Aug 2013 Malaria PhD
• NYE 2010/2011 recordings using Ovi Loop for Nokia. 2 Aug 2013 Other
• Moodstocks Notes for Nokia smartphones 2 Aug 2013 Technology AI
• Malaria 2 Aug 2013 Malaria PhD
• Epson Waste Ink Resetter for px700w and similar 2 Aug 2013 Technology
• Apps for Nokia Smartphones 2 Aug 2013 Technology
• Gender Bias Calculator 1 May 2013 Tech for Good Inequality
• Zwack 6 Nov 2012 Other
• Eduroam on Windows 8 6 Nov 2012 Technology
• Pfal network site, currently only for LSTM people 21 Mar 2012 Malaria PhD
• Orange 2 Feb 2012 Consumer rights
• MetNetMaker on Tom's Personal Page 15 Nov 2011 Malaria Technology
• Population around a point Data
• Ring populations Data
• What works or what should work? Economics Data Transport Culture
• Data
• Tom's Teaching R&D
• SimSponge Data
• SimSponge Data
• A sentence simplifier. As simple as possible. Design Technology
• Robbo Page Other
• R&D, Transport, Skills, and Growth. Regional growth Economics
• Reachable stations Transport
• RateMyPlace Other
• City prosperity by country. Economics Productivity Regional growth
• City prosperity by country. Economics Productivity Regional growth
• City prosperity by country. Economics Productivity Regional growth
• Index of /playingwithpdfs PDFs
• PhD Project Page Malaria PhD
• myMP app for Nokia smartphones Other
• Midland Metro usage diagram. Transport
• Sankey Javascript Demo: Spread effort 2050 Pathway Health Data
• liveFluxView PhD Malaria
• Index of /leedsserviceforwarders Other
• Other
• Leeds Last Page Transport Leeds
• KEGG Projector Other
• The Importance of Failure! Other
• Inequality in England & Wales Inequality
• Income and inequality historical data explorer Inequality
• Income and inequality historical data explorer Inequality Economics Politics
• A Waterwheel in Hol Beck Other
• Guardian-style comment generator Other
• Energy Guardian 2.0 Other
• Ward Map of Empty Homes Data
• Empty Homes Profiler Other
• Better Bus Maps Technology Health Innovation
• CyberFirst Other
• City prosperity by country. Agglomeration
• City prosperity by country. Agglomeration
• City prosperity by country. Agglomeration
• Better Bus Maps
• Rail Geography France
• BusTracker Other
• Other

Data

• Measures matter. 13 Dec 2021
• GB Public Transport Isochrones 19 Nov 2021
• Brownfield first! 17 Oct 2021
• Miserabalism 17 Mar 2021
• Bins and the law. 13 Feb 2021
• Where pupils in England get free school meals. 23 Oct 2020
• Working with housing data, not in Excel 12 Oct 2020
• Building The Data City 30 Sept 2020
• How great data could power a Great British recovery 22 Jun 2020
• Covid-19 and deprivation in England 15 Jun 2020
• Covid-19 and deprivation in England 8 May 2020
• Coronavirus response in the UK and France 11 Apr 2020
• Bus use data. 10 Dec 2019
• CityMapper and the state. 4 Mar 2019
• Taste tests 3 Mar 2019
• Parliament's digital work matters 22 Dec 2018
• Naming places, and the role of government. 12 Oct 2018
• Beyond BCR. 11 Sept 2018
• A better debate on transport. 21 Aug 2018
• Are lives in Tottenham worth less? 6 Apr 2018
• Usefully daft: alphabetical public transport. 12 Feb 2018
• Where trust in experts dies. 2 Dec 2017
• Global Open Data 23 Oct 2017
• Experts got it wrong. 22 Sept 2017
• Open data struggles 15 Sept 2017
• Measuring tech: in France and the UK 16 Jul 2017
• More problems with the PAF 15 Jul 2017
• Fares data will be hard. 9 Jul 2017
• Transport Complexity 20 Jun 2017
• More than Meetup 14 Jun 2017
• ODCamp 4: Cardiff 20 Feb 2017
• The centre of the UK 20 Feb 2017
• ONS household count estimates are wrong 9 Feb 2017
• Defending Uber 6 Feb 2017
• Counting households 4 Feb 2017
• Calderdale's digital strategy 1 Feb 2017
• Time is money, but how much money? 27 Jan 2017
• PubQuest Birmingham 29 Dec 2016
• Open data in Birmingham 12 Dec 2016
• Leeds is the best city 24 Oct 2016
• Thinking BIM at ODILeeds 1 Jun 2016
• The mathematics of inequality 17 May 2016
• ONS Consultation on Country and Regional Public Sector Finances 16 May 2016
• #BBCDataDay 21 Jan 2016
• SimFlood 31 Dec 2015
• Come say hello! 16 Oct 2015
• Child poverty and university access 18 Sept 2015
• The Bird Index 19 Aug 2014
• Population around a point
• Ring populations
• What works or what should work?
• SimSponge
• SimSponge
• Sankey Javascript Demo: Spread effort 2050 Pathway
• Ward Map of Empty Homes

Local power

• Fortress London 20 May 2022
• Why local? 14 Oct 2021
• Bins and the law. 13 Feb 2021
• Constitutional vandalism 31 Dec 2020
• Saving lives by failing to save lives. 21 Jul 2020
• West Yorkshire Devolution 22 Jun 2020
• CityMapper and the state. 4 Mar 2019
• Who is blocking local development? 9 Feb 2019
• Naming places, and the role of government. 12 Oct 2018
• Beyond BCR. 11 Sept 2018
• Rage against the machine. 10 May 2018
• A Brexit bonus? 10 May 2018
• Are lives in Tottenham worth less? 6 Apr 2018
• Sheffield's trees and taking back control 25 Mar 2018
• Experts got it wrong. 22 Sept 2017
• Fixing it ourselves: open data on bus journeys in Leeds 20 Sept 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 5 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 4 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 3 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 2 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 1 28 Jul 2017
• Why Channel 4 should move to Manchester 5 Jul 2017
• Transport Complexity 20 Jun 2017
• The fiscal balance of power 10 Jun 2017
• What powers? 3 May 2017
• Hartlepool and Redcar 2 Mar 2017
• Defending Uber 6 Feb 2017
• Tap to Pay 6 Dec 2016
• The right decision, taken in the wrong way. 2 Dec 2016
• Why devolution? 6 Oct 2016
• Five years in Manchester 30 Jul 2016
• What is London? 3 Mar 2016
• A year in Birmingham 1 Feb 2016
• The State of the North 28 Oct 2015
• Steel and the free market 20 Oct 2015
• Centralism is like Santa Claus 30 May 2015
• Bring on the NorthernPowerhouse 28 May 2015
• We must cherish our Capital 1 Apr 2015
• Northern Rail and TPE Consultation 5 Mar 2015
• Summing it up 23 Dec 2014
• Is London holding us back? 4 Aug 2014
• 10 things London can shove up its a%se 5 Jun 2014
• Yorkshire Backwards 9 Apr 2014
• Dr. Adonis is wrong 21 Jan 2014
• We've never even tried 2 Jan 2014
• The BBC's other Bias 2 Jan 2014
• Sponsored tube 2 Aug 2013
• Making Science more Vital 2 Aug 2013

Regional growth

• Fortress London 20 May 2022
• North England vs. The Netherlands. 21 Mar 2022
• Ilkley and Islington. 18 Feb 2022
• Regional inequality in Europe, and within its countries 23 Nov 2020
• Measuring regional inequality 22 Nov 2020
• Building The Data City 30 Sept 2020
• Letting succesful places fail. 5 Feb 2020
• Who is blocking local development? 9 Feb 2019
• Beyond BCR. 11 Sept 2018
• Are Northerners poor because we’re thick? 19 Jun 2018
• A Brexit bonus? 10 May 2018
• Pounds, passports, procurement, protectionism? 29 Mar 2018
• Boosting R&D in the UK 22 Mar 2018
• R&D Royal Rumble: Manchester vs. Oxford 28 Feb 2018
• Fixing it ourselves: open data on bus journeys in Leeds 20 Sept 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 5 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 4 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 3 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 2 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 1 28 Jul 2017
• Emulating Ireland 15 Jul 2017
• Why Channel 4 should move to Manchester 5 Jul 2017
• Not like London 27 Apr 2017
• Investment is political 20 Apr 2017
• The most important graph 14 Apr 2017
• Hartlepool and Redcar 2 Mar 2017
• Imitating Manchester 20 Feb 2017
• Moving to Manchester 16 Feb 2017
• Imagination not needed: part 3 30 Jan 2017
• Imagination not needed: part 2 16 Jan 2017
• Imagination not needed: part 1 16 Jan 2017
• Industrial strategy in the UK 2 Dec 2016
• Five years in Manchester 30 Jul 2016
• ONS Consultation on Country and Regional Public Sector Finances 16 May 2016
• The Leeds trolleybus decision is a disaster for Londoners 13 May 2016
• A year in Birmingham 1 Feb 2016
• Bring on the NorthernPowerhouse 28 May 2015
• Tom's Cartoons 1 Dec 2014
• The UK's real hub airport 17 Nov 2014
• The Poorest Regions in Northern Europe 9 Oct 2014
• More things for Leeds! 18 Aug 2014
• London’s skills shortage. 11 Aug 2014
• Is London holding us back? 4 Aug 2014
• Mostly Right but Badly Wrong. 17 Oct 2013
• R&D, Transport, Skills, and Growth.
• City prosperity by country.
• City prosperity by country.
• City prosperity by country.

Economics

• North England vs. The Netherlands. 21 Mar 2022
• Measures matter. 13 Dec 2021
• Regional inequality in Europe, and within its countries 23 Nov 2020
• Measuring regional inequality 22 Nov 2020
• Beyond BCR. 11 Sept 2018
• A better debate on transport. 21 Aug 2018
• Making the case for agglomeration. 6 Aug 2018
• Heathrow two. 24 May 2018
• A Brexit bonus? 10 May 2018
• Pounds, passports, procurement, protectionism? 29 Mar 2018
• Productivity and patrie. 17 Jan 2018
• Leeds Growth Strategy 5 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 4 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 3 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 2 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 1 28 Jul 2017
• Defending the zombie graph 26 Jul 2017
• Emulating Ireland 15 Jul 2017
• Simple innovations 7 Jul 2017
• Why Channel 4 should move to Manchester 5 Jul 2017
• The fiscal balance of power 10 Jun 2017
• Hartlepool and Redcar 2 Mar 2017
• Defending Uber 6 Feb 2017
• Imagination not needed: part 3 30 Jan 2017
• Imagination not needed: part 2 16 Jan 2017
• Imagination not needed: part 1 16 Jan 2017
• The housing market works, where we let it 7 Dec 2016
• The UK and the Euro 1 Dec 2016
• Five years in Manchester 30 Jul 2016
• The mathematics of inequality 17 May 2016
• The GDP mystery 17 Apr 2016
• A year in Birmingham 1 Feb 2016
• Steel and the free market 20 Oct 2015
• Saving the Union. 8 Sept 2014
• Is London holding us back? 4 Aug 2014
• Dr. Adonis is wrong 21 Jan 2014
• We've never even tried 2 Jan 2014
• What works or what should work?
• R&D, Transport, Skills, and Growth.
• City prosperity by country.
• City prosperity by country.
• City prosperity by country.
• Income and inequality historical data explorer

Technology

• The rise of French Tech 9 Jul 2021
• Bins and the law. 13 Feb 2021
• Styles 10 Jan 2021
• Building The Data City 30 Sept 2020
• Systembolaget and ML.NET 27 Jun 2020
• The best app I (n)ever built. 1 May 2020
• R&D and Google Mobility. 13 Apr 2020
• Skype for climate 26 Oct 2019
• CityMapper and the state. 4 Mar 2019
• What I use. 22 Feb 2019
• Kill ODS. Devolve GDS. 30 Apr 2018
• Science and PDFs 19 Sept 2017
• Open data struggles 15 Sept 2017
• Measuring tech: in France and the UK 16 Jul 2017
• iPhones and folk tales 1 Jul 2017
• Regulators and markets 28 Jun 2017
• Politics, trust, and GDS 1 May 2017
• Loving and hating UWP 14 Apr 2017
• Thinking BIM at ODILeeds 1 Jun 2016
• Let Northerners build a global Tech Nation 19 May 2016
• DHEZ Solutions 1 8 Apr 2016
• Tech transitions 17 Feb 2016
• How (not?) to build a TechNation 25 Jan 2016
• Building a TechNation 19 Jan 2016
• SimFlood 31 Dec 2015
• Building a really simple Chrome extension 25 May 2014
• Why I hate Webkit 28 Oct 2013
• Easy Wins for Microsoft 7 Sept 2013
• Moodstocks Notes for Nokia smartphones 2 Aug 2013
• Epson Waste Ink Resetter for px700w and similar 2 Aug 2013
• Apps for Nokia Smartphones 2 Aug 2013
• Eduroam on Windows 8 6 Nov 2012
• MetNetMaker on Tom's Personal Page 15 Nov 2011
• A sentence simplifier. As simple as possible.
• Better Bus Maps

Politics

• Fortress London 20 May 2022
• The rise of French Tech 9 Jul 2021
• Saving lives by failing to save lives. 21 Jul 2020
• West Yorkshire Devolution 22 Jun 2020
• The best app I (n)ever built. 1 May 2020
• Coronavirus response in the UK and France 11 Apr 2020
• Free bus passes for under 25s? 12 Apr 2018
• What's wrong with French democracy? 29 Jan 2018
• Where trust in experts dies. 2 Dec 2017
• Experts got it wrong. 22 Sept 2017
• Politics, trust, and GDS 1 May 2017
• Imitating Manchester 20 Feb 2017
• Imagination not needed: part 3 30 Jan 2017
• Imagination not needed: part 2 16 Jan 2017
• Imagination not needed: part 1 16 Jan 2017
• Tap to Pay 6 Dec 2016
• The UK and the Euro 1 Dec 2016
• Fifa is the right’s Venezuela. 24 Nov 2016
• Why devolution? 6 Oct 2016
• My positive case for the EU. 1 Jun 2016
• Let Northerners build a global Tech Nation 19 May 2016
• Euro Voters part 2 29 Mar 2016
• Euro voters 29 Feb 2016
• How (not?) to build a TechNation 25 Jan 2016
• Building a TechNation 19 Jan 2016
• Child poverty and university access 18 Sept 2015
• Our reponsibilities 31 Jul 2015
• Summing it up 23 Dec 2014
• Saving the Union. 8 Sept 2014
• London’s skills shortage. 11 Aug 2014
• Yorkshire Backwards 9 Apr 2014
• Dr. Adonis is wrong 21 Jan 2014
• Income and inequality historical data explorer

Transport

• GB Public Transport Isochrones 19 Nov 2021
• Bus use data. 10 Dec 2019
• Beyond BCR. 11 Sept 2018
• A better debate on transport. 21 Aug 2018
• Free bus passes for under 25s? 12 Apr 2018
• Usefully daft: alphabetical public transport. 12 Feb 2018
• Where trust in experts dies. 2 Dec 2017
• Pacers and The Art of the Possible 20 Nov 2017
• One Nobel Prize and a Yorkshire transport policy. 17 Nov 2017
• Learning from London 21 Sept 2017
• Defending the zombie graph 26 Jul 2017
• Fares data will be hard. 9 Jul 2017
• Transport Complexity 20 Jun 2017
• Time lags in innovation 19 Jun 2017
• Investment is political 20 Apr 2017
• The centre of the UK 20 Feb 2017
• Defending Uber 6 Feb 2017
• Time is money, but how much money? 27 Jan 2017
• Tap to Pay 6 Dec 2016
• The right decision, taken in the wrong way. 2 Dec 2016
• The Leeds trolleybus decision is a disaster for Londoners 13 May 2016
• Car-free Birmingham 15 Dec 2015
• Where do you take my bike lights? 12 Oct 2015
• 1975 WY Metro Plan 6 Oct 2015
• Northern Rail and TPE Consultation 5 Mar 2015
• The UK's real hub airport 17 Nov 2014
• We've never even tried 2 Jan 2014
• Rail Geography 22 Aug 2013
• Sponsored tube 2 Aug 2013
• What works or what should work?
• Reachable stations
• Midland Metro usage diagram.
• Leeds Last Page

Other

• The most exciting place in the world! 19 Apr 2020
• All my blog posts 2 Dec 2017
• 29/10/2015 ODI Node Summit (Tom Forth, ODILeeds notes) 30 Oct 2015
• What has the EU ever done? 6 Aug 2013
• NYE 2010/2011 recordings using Ovi Loop for Nokia. 2 Aug 2013
• Zwack 6 Nov 2012
• Robbo Page
• RateMyPlace
• myMP app for Nokia smartphones
• Index of /leedsserviceforwarders
• KEGG Projector
• The Importance of Failure!
• A Waterwheel in Hol Beck
• Guardian-style comment generator
• Energy Guardian 2.0
• Empty Homes Profiler
• CyberFirst
• BusTracker

Inequality

• Measures matter. 13 Dec 2021
• Covid-19 and deprivation in England 15 Jun 2020
• Covid-19 and deprivation in England 8 May 2020
• Trickle out works: inequality in Greater Manchester. 16 Feb 2019
• Leeds Growth Strategy 5 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 4 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 3 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 2 28 Jul 2017
• Leeds Growth Strategy 1 28 Jul 2017
• Inclusive growth 20 Dec 2016
• The mathematics of inequality 17 May 2016
• A year in Birmingham 1 Feb 2016
• Gender Bias Calculator 1 May 2013
• Inequality in England & Wales
• Income and inequality historical data explorer
• Income and inequality historical data explorer

R&D

• R&D and Google Mobility. 13 Apr 2020
• Letting succesful places fail. 5 Feb 2020
• Wellcome Trust. 6 Oct 2018
• Boosting R&D in the UK 22 Mar 2018
• R&D Royal Rumble: Manchester vs. Oxford 28 Feb 2018
• Measuring tech: in France and the UK 16 Jul 2017
• Time lags in innovation 19 Jun 2017
• Academic Output 14 Jun 2017
• Industrial strategy in the UK 2 Dec 2016
• Steel and the free market 20 Oct 2015
• Researching R&D 24 Feb 2015
• Summing it up 23 Dec 2014
• Playful Everywhere! 18 Aug 2014
• We've never even tried 2 Jan 2014
• Tom's Teaching

Housing

• Empty homes for good. 28 Mar 2022
• Brownfield first! 17 Oct 2021
• Working with housing data, not in Excel 12 Oct 2020
• Who is blocking local development? 9 Feb 2019
• Hybrid PDFs 13 May 2017
• A Clearer Plan 8 May 2017
• ONS household count estimates are wrong 9 Feb 2017
• Counting households 4 Feb 2017
• The housing market works, where we let it 7 Dec 2016
• Leeds Site Allocations 11 Apr 2015
• Should we even try to engage with NIMBYs? 16 Apr 2014

Design

• Kill ODS. Devolve GDS. 30 Apr 2018
• Open data struggles 15 Sept 2017
• Politics, trust, and GDS 1 May 2017
• Tap to Pay 6 Dec 2016
• Tech transitions 17 Feb 2016
• Stay inside the bubble 12 Mar 2015
• Listen less. Do more! 26 Feb 2014
• A sentence simplifier. As simple as possible.

PDFs

• Global Open Data 23 Oct 2017
• Science and PDFs 19 Sept 2017
• PDFAttacher 2 Sept 2017
• PDF for planners 17 May 2017
• Hybrid PDFs 13 May 2017
• PDF Tests 11 May 2017
• A Clearer Plan 8 May 2017
• Index of /playingwithpdfs

The EU

• Heathrow two. 24 May 2018
• A Brexit bonus? 10 May 2018
• The definition of insanity 3 Jun 2016
• My positive case for the EU. 1 Jun 2016
• The GDP mystery 17 Apr 2016
• Euro Voters part 2 29 Mar 2016
• Euro voters 29 Feb 2016

Productivity

• Regional inequality in Europe, and within its countries 23 Nov 2020
• Measuring regional inequality 22 Nov 2020
• Productivity and patrie. 17 Jan 2018
• The Poorest Regions in Northern Europe 9 Oct 2014
• City prosperity by country.
• City prosperity by country.
• City prosperity by country.

AI

• Systembolaget and ML.NET 27 Jun 2020
• New data for innovation policy 23 Mar 2019
• Inventing a democratic vocabulary to free us from the tyranny of experts — algorithms in government. 29 Jun 2018
• More than Meetup 14 Jun 2017
• Academic Output 14 Jun 2017
• Moodstocks Notes for Nokia smartphones 2 Aug 2013

France

• Miserabalism 17 Mar 2021
• How great data could power a Great British recovery 22 Jun 2020
• Coronavirus response in the UK and France 11 Apr 2020
• What's wrong with French democracy? 29 Jan 2018
• Productivity and patrie. 17 Jan 2018
• Rail Geography

The UK

• What is the UK? 27 Mar 2021
• Constitutional vandalism 31 Dec 2020
• Building The Data City 30 Sept 2020
• Coronavirus response in the UK and France 11 Apr 2020
• Part of the problem: The Economist on Scotland. 18 Jan 2014

Agglomeration

• R&D Royal Rumble: Manchester vs. Oxford 28 Feb 2018
• The most important graph 14 Apr 2017
• City prosperity by country.
• City prosperity by country.
• City prosperity by country.

Health

• Miserabalism 17 Mar 2021
• Precaution 17 Mar 2021
• DHEZ Solutions 1 8 Apr 2016
• Sankey Javascript Demo: Spread effort 2050 Pathway
• Better Bus Maps

Education

• Emulating Ireland 15 Jul 2017
• Avalanche 25 Jan 2016
• Nicky Morgan 27 Nov 2015
• Child poverty and university access 18 Sept 2015

Tech for Good

• The best app I (n)ever built. 1 May 2020
• Tech for Good? 1 Nov 2018
• Inventing a democratic vocabulary to free us from the tyranny of experts — algorithms in government. 29 Jun 2018
• Gender Bias Calculator 1 May 2013

Malaria PhD

• PhD Page 2 Aug 2013
• Pfal network site, currently only for LSTM people 21 Mar 2012
• PhD Project Page

Malaria

• Malaria 2 Aug 2013
• MetNetMaker on Tom's Personal Page 15 Nov 2011
• liveFluxView

Brexit

• Heathrow two. 24 May 2018
• A Brexit bonus? 10 May 2018
• The definition of insanity 3 Jun 2016

Covid-19

• Covid-19 and deprivation in England 15 Jun 2020
• Covid-19 and deprivation in England 8 May 2020
• Coronavirus response in the UK and France 11 Apr 2020

Food

• Taste tests 3 Mar 2019
• PubQuest Birmingham 29 Dec 2016

Innovation

• New data for innovation policy 23 Mar 2019
• Better Bus Maps

Leeds

• More things for Leeds! 18 Aug 2014
• Leeds Last Page

Competition policy

• iPhones and folk tales 1 Jul 2017
• Regulators and markets 28 Jun 2017

PhD

• Malaria 2 Aug 2013
• liveFluxView

Culture

• What works or what should work?

Geography

• Naming places, and the role of government. 12 Oct 2018

Tech for good

• Skype for climate 26 Oct 2019

Science

• Making Science more Vital 2 Aug 2013

Play

• Playful Everywhere! 18 Aug 2014

Consumer rights

• Orange 2 Feb 2012

Birmingham

• Open data in Birmingham 12 Dec 2016

Intelligence

• Are Northerners poor because we’re thick? 19 Jun 2018

The Economist

• Mostly Right but Badly Wrong. 17 Oct 2013

Microsoft

• Easy Wins for Microsoft 7 Sept 2013

• Better Bus Maps

Regional Growth

• Making the case for agglomeration. 6 Aug 2018