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Back to the Army again

In the winter of 1918-19, the British government found itself in something of a quandary. On the one hand, hurrah, the war was over! Everyone who had signed up to serve for “three years or the...

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When do you think you were born?

Back in the last post, we were looking at a sample of dates-of-birth in post-WWI Army records. (To recap – this is a dataset covering every man who served in the British Army after 1921 and who had a...

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Canadian self-reported birthday data

In the last post, we saw strong evidence for a “memorable date” bias in self-reported birthday information among British men born in the late 19th century. In short, they were disproportionately likely...

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Taking pictures with flying government lasers

Well, sort of. A few weeks ago, the Environment Agency released the first tranche of their LIDAR survey data. This covers (most of) England, at varying resolution from 2m to 25cm, made via LIDAR...

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