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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleCanadian 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...
View ArticleTaking 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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