Data needed for analyses - sorting, cleaning etc.

[nhcooper123]

Population data

• yearly total population for UK from 1910 onwards, county level from 1991
• census data from England and Wales, county level, every ten years
• waiting on Scotland and Northern Ireland
• need to group into regions, remember counties have changed, how to split counties that cover two regions?
• issue with Ireland not existing pre 1920s?
• make sure to add metadata
• what level can we get this to in reality???

Looks like yearly for whole UK is only viable option

Storm data

• add metadata
• average monthly windspeed, 1969 - present, eastings and northings
• could get average wind speed per region per year from 1969...
• definition of a storm?
• dealing with the bias of reporting towards the present
• total storms per year and per region is easy enough, but we will be missing storms.
• data collection completed

Magnets

• add metadata
• magnets are good 👍
• Three hourly data from 1932, global values
• Hoping to get more detailed data from across the UK, but it won't work regionally, but variation is very small anyway across the UK.
• yearly average and yearly maximum

Body size

• collect data
• add metadata

Strandings events

• number of strandings events per year

Species richness

• number of species stranded per year

[dill]

regarding population data:

I had a chat with my buddy Mark who does human stats stuff... he suggested:

UKDS has the census results from '71-'11 by decade: https://census.ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/aggregate-data it's not horribly bad to extract (and you can get it at the district or ward level, which would be nice since we only care about the coast) but I doubt this captures the variation we want, which I guess happens 50s-60s?

[nhcooper123]

Yeah Ellen has similar data. We just had a long chat and decided that decadal wasn't much use as we'd be left with 10 data points (strandings data covers 100 years)...

[dill]

To follow up on this a little more I also asked Alasdair Rae at Sheffield who is GIS guru, he said:

"I don't think this data exists. The closest would be to take a look at the historic GIS data stuff from Portsmouth - which is actually pretty good but the interface is a bit of a muddle: visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/index.jsp There are population datasets there but I don't think anything that quite fits the bill. Only other suggestion is for them to contact the Portsmouth people directly or maybe the OpenPopGrid team at Southampton: openpopgrid.geodata.soton.ac.uk There's always a chance it does exist but I've not seen it."

Hope this is somewhat useful!