Tag: Chance test

• The Roman Commuter Belt?

  

  Roman villas and today’s richest neighbourhoods both crowd into the lowland south-east. I set 617 villas against household income across England and Wales: the villa premium is real at first sight, and almost all geography.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  archaeology, Britain, Chance test, England, history, Persistence test, Poverty and wealth, Present day, Roman, Romans, Wales

• Bloody Place Names: do Britain’s battle names mark real battles?

  

  I measured 756 grim place names on the OS map, from Battle to Gallows Hill, against 507 recorded battles and sieges. Only Battle names reliably mark a battlefield; most of the rest are red herrings, and the Slaughters mean wet land.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Battles, Britain, Chance test, Long view, Ordnance Survey, place names, UK, war, Wikidata

• Thankful Villages: luck or size?

  

  About 55 parishes in England and Wales got every serviceman back from the First World War. Small parishes are nine times likelier to be on the list, but chance alone predicts hundreds more.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Chance test, cities, Commemoration, England, First World War, Twentieth century, Wales, war

• Within Sight: could Britain’s hillforts see each other?

  

  I traced 169,271 lines of sight between Britain and Ireland’s 4,147 hillforts. Most can see another, and they see each other more than nearby hills do, but good views, not signalling, explain almost all of it.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  archaeology, Britain, Chance test, Hillforts, Ireland, landscape, Line of sight, Prehistory, Terrain model, UK

• Do women leaders get angrier reactions?

  

  Women’s Facebook pages drew half the angry reactions of men’s. Then I compared like with like, and the gap disappeared.

  Tristan Hotham

  Research papers

  Chance test, Facebook, Facebook reactions, Party leaders, political parties, Social Media, Women and gender