Consider enabling regions as a third area type.

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Via Dave Powell @ Climate Outreach (who engaged with prototyping week) on 24 Jan:

Do you know of any software / platforms that can make maps of opinion polling data, like this but for the UK's regions?

Flourish kind of does it but not by region apparently.

From internal Slack chat:

Julia Cushion 12 minutes ago

interesting! how hard would it be to shade LIH by region, @zarino ? If regions are just a collective of constituencies (are they?!) :thinking_face:

Zarino Zappia 7 minutes ago ie: exposing the data already in the LIH but by “region” rather than Westminster Constituency. LIH theoretically supports multiple area types now (currently: 2010 westminster constituencies, and 2023 westminster constituencies) so I guess we could introduce “regions” as a third area type and then re-import / re-create the various datasets for those areas. But it’s a lot of work to undertake, so I’d want to know 1) that it actually makes sense and produces useful data (UK regions seem a bit too few, and a bit too predictable, to me? sure, London and the South will be rich, everywhere else will be poor, what’s new?) and 2) that there’s enough demand for this feature that it justifies the time spent and ongoing maintenance burden. :+1::skin-tone-2: 1

Zarino Zappia 6 minutes ago at the very least, it’d be great if someone ( @Siôn

@julia ?) could document this idea in a ticket so we can come back to it! :+1::skin-tone-2: 1

Siôn Elis Williams :hammer: 4 minutes ago Thanks Zarino! Will ticket and see if Dave can expand on use case. I can see this might be useful for regionally-structured organisations e.g. Friends of the Earth. Will dump anything else I can find out into the ticket.

Struan Donald :rain_cloud: 4 minutes ago I mean, you could just look at the map of constituencies and eyeball it surely? New

Zarino Zappia 2 minutes ago I mean, you could just look at the map of constituencies and eyeball it surely? I guess aside from having to remember / visualise where the region boundaries are, the issue would be averaging the colour across a region – might not be totally intuitive, depending how varied the constituencies are inside that region

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Dave said:

This is for our imminent redo of our Britain Talks Climate survey - we are interested in doing some datavis of different climate sentiment by UK regions. So I'm after something that's able to do that functionality already. I have separately heard that Flourish do this so that might answer the question...

Worth exploring with Friends of the Earth's Head of England Team, as it's composed of roles that are based on regions.