I have always enjoyed working with data, but regardless, the analysis gets a bit more exciting when you can finally see a story the data tells.
To do this, I uploaded all my results into QGIS, an open source Geographic Information System, which enables creations of maps. All the data I have worked with concerns the geographical areas in the UK, hence mapping deprivation as well as providing tables with specific scores has felt to be the right (and very visually appealing) choice.
I have learned how to use a lot of functions QGIS lebanon rcs data offers, including creating 3D maps and analysing geospatial data.
Working with the software has woken up a very creative side of me I never knew I even had. I discovered that data analysis can be very artistic and original, especially when it comes to presenting the findings.
One of the things I have found out by just looking at my maps was that deprivation decreased massively between 1991 and 2011 according to the Carstairs index.
The darker the area, the more deprived the local authority is and vice versa.
When looking at the raw numbers, one would have no idea about this unless doing some further analysis, and so plotting numbers into a map is a great way of finding out whether there is something going on and subsequently go on about the specific analysis.
As I saw that the older maps are much darker than the ones from more recent years, I decided to explore whether this trend is significant.