March 2019 was warm and wet with the 2nd highest rain intensity on record.
Pay Gaps #6 – Frequently Asked Questions
April 2019 is bang in the middle of gender pay gap season as everyone digests the 2018 snapshot data uploaded by over 10,500 organisations in the UK employing more than 250 employees. Due to my work on pay gaps, I am being asked a number of questions and what is gender pay gap data and how it can be interpreted. As more questions come in, I will update this post so please bookmark this for future reference and follow me on Twitter for alerts as to when this has happened.
Pay Gap Data #2 – Where can I find gender pay gap data for 2018?
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The government requires all organisations employing 250 or more employees to submit gender pay gap data. The latest set of submissions are supposed to be uploaded by 31st March 2019 but these figures refer to pay made in April 2018 i.e. a year ago. From the end of April 2019, organisations can submit their 2019 data and not wait for the deadline of March 2020. All data is available to the public and can be found on the government’s gender pay gap website. I have downloaded this data and created a spreadsheet tool to present the data in a more user-friendly and visual format.
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UK Weather Trends #8 – Winter 2019
The winter of 2019 was consistent with the step change in the winter climate that took place in the 1990s.
UK Weather Tracker #25 – February 2019
February 2019 ended with the warmest days on record in the month. As a result, the month as a whole was the second warmest and second sunniest February on record.
UK Economy Tracker #3 – 2018 Q4
It’s taken 10 years but the UK is finally experiencing true wage growth that outpaces inflation. With employment and economic activity at record levels, the UK economy should be in good shape but the basic problem of low growth is still there. Our economy still needs to place itself on a stronger footing ahead of a rising probability of another recession in the near future.
UK Weather Tracker #24 – January 2019
2019 in the UK began with a dry month but normal weather otherwise.
Stats Training Materials – Basic Statistical Concepts
A sound grasp of basic statistical concepts is essential to have any hope of acquiring the mindset of a statistical thinker and to be able to use statistical methods. My introductory course “The 6 Concepts of Statistical Thinking” lays the foundations in the following.
- Probability – the difference between conditional & absolute probability.
- Risk – why it is an extension of probability and the importance of alpha (false positive) and beta (false negative) risk.
- Expectation – how to summarise a dataset into one number which measures its location.
- Variance – how to measure the spread of a dataset.
- Distribution – how to describe the shape of a dataset.
- Correlation – how to measure the relationship between two variables and understand the two golden rules of correlation.
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UK Weather Tracker #23 – December 2018
The start of the new meteorological year was warm with normal rainfall.
UK Weather Trends #7 – Autumn 2018
Meteorologists define autumn in the UK to be the period from September to November so autumn is now over and we are officially in winter. The 2018 autumn was consistent with the step change in the autumnal climate that took place in the 1990s.
