Tag: Present day

• Chips, curry or kebab? The UK’s takeaway map

  

  I sorted all 62,949 takeaways and 141,306 restaurants on the UK’s food hygiene register by what their names say they sell. The chip shop capital is the seaside, the curry capital is Hounslow, and the old Chinatowns still show.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Business names, cities, Classification, food and drink, maps, OpenStreetMap, Present day, Text mining, UK

• Signature sports: where the world’s niche games are unusually popular

  

  Every country plays football, but which sport does each country play far more than the world? From 99,246 clubs: pesäpallo in Finland (70x the world average), tchoukball in Switzerland, hurling in Ireland, speedway in Poland.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  games, Location quotient, OpenStreetMap, Present day, sport, UK, Wikidata, World, world maps

• Born here, loved there: where dog breeds come from, and where they are loved

  

  I mapped 573 dog breeds to their countries of origin and set them against kennel club registrations. In 8 of 10 countries the favourite dog was born somewhere else.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Present day, Public attention, Wikidata, wildlife, World, world maps

• School catchments: how much of the UK does one school serve?

  

  Every one of the UK’s 27,024 state schools, the official catchments that 33 councils publish openly, and nearest-school zones everywhere else. The biggest catchment, Golspie High School, covers 2,215 km².

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Education, population, Present day, Remoteness and access, Scotland, UK

• What Britain drives: makes, models and colours, county by county

  

  I read all 42,728,066 MOT tests from 2025 to map the most popular car makes, models and colours in every county and postcode area. The average British car is a blue Ford Fiesta, Scotland prefers white, and Shetland loves Toyotas.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Ireland, population, Present day, Scotland, Transport, UK