Tag: Text mining

• Black rivers, white springs: the colours of the world’s place names

  

  I found 138,453 places named after a colour, in 20 languages. Rivers run black, springs run white, the commonest colour name on Earth is Cerro Colorado, and a fifth of Russia’s red is revolutionary.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  GeoNames, language and dialect, Languages, place names, Present day, Rivers, Text mining, World, world maps

• Mentioned in the House: which places does Parliament talk about?

  

  A century of Hansard, counted place by place: 297,134 Commons mentions of UK towns and cities since 1909, which places punch above their weight, and who names your constituency.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Hansard, Parliament, Present day, Public attention, Text mining, Twentieth century, UK

• The Listed Kingdom: every listed building in the UK

  

  I put all 465,740 entries on the UK’s four lists of listed buildings on one map, read their names to see what they are and their descriptions to see when they were built. Mostly Georgian and Victorian houses, with a great many churches at the top.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, buildings, Georgian, Heritage, history, Text mining, UK, Victorian

• High Street or Main Street? The UK’s street-name divide

  

  I sorted all 913,335 named streets in the UK by name. High Street rules the towns, Main Street the villages of Scotland, Northern Ireland, the East Midlands and Yorkshire, and every region has its own street words.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Dialect, language and dialect, OpenStreetMap, Ordnance Survey, place names, Present day, Scotland, Street names, Text mining, UK

• 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