Visualisation of COVID-19 in Northern Ireland
Reading Time: < 1 minutes By Aaron McMurray & James Bamford This dashboard has been prepared by the Assembly Research and Information Service (RaISe) to
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Statistics & GIS
Alcohol-specific deaths in Northern Ireland
Reading Time: 5 minutes Overview The latest figures published by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (February 2021) show that the number
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The launch of our new ‘Constituency Profile’ data dashboards
Reading Time: 2 minutes Throughout 2020 RaISe has been focused on developing the rollout of a Digital Strategy. Given the current situation with the
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Foodbank distribution in Northern Ireland
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Foodbanks are an increasingly useful resource for many in Northern Ireland. They provide a valuable service to communities and are
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Can surveys be supplemented and improved by social media based research? A case study of the Young Life & Times Survey
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sample opinion surveys are a well-established way to measure public opinion on contemporary affairs. However, the exponential growth of social
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Is it possible to socially distance on our beaches?
Reading Time: 2 minutes With many international travel restrictions still in place, more people than ever will be opting for ‘staycations’ in Northern Ireland.
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The impact of COVID-19 on Northern Ireland
Reading Time: < 1 minutes By Keara McKay & Thomas Procter Our new visualisation based on figures and analysis published in the public domain by
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Ten reasons to be cautious about using R to support decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic
Reading Time: 9 minutes The risk is that a complicated number is released without context into a world that doesn’t know how to
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Where are we on the COVID-19 curve? (Update at 16 April 2020)
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a follow-up to the recent blog article, ‘Where are we on the COVID-19 curve?. The previous article
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Where are we on the COVID-19 curve?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Most of us by now understand the need to ‘flatten the curve’ in order to reduce the number of
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