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Pay Gap Trends #2 – My analysis of 7 sectors for Practical Law magazine

June 3, 2020 By Nigel Marriott

In April, I was asked to analyse the trends in UK gender pay gaps over the 3 years of mandatory reporting from 2017 to 2019 for Practical Law.  They were interested in 7 customised sectors and the links to these can be found in this post.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: 2019, Gender Pay Gap, imputation, pay gap trends, Practical Law, Presenting data, Sector analysis, trend analysis

UK Weather Trends #13 – Spring 2020

June 3, 2020 By Nigel Marriott

The UK experienced its sunniest spring on record in 2020 by a huge margin.  Both April and May were the sunniest on record and together they resulted in an average of 6.5 hours of sunshine per day compared to the normal 4.5 hours per day.

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: multivariate data, Presenting data, principal components analysis, standardisation, trend analysis, Weather, weather trends, z-scores

UK Weather Trends #12 – Winter 2020

March 8, 2020 By Nigel Marriott

The UK experienced its 5th wettest and warmest winter on record in 2020.

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: multivariate data, Presenting data, principal components analysis, standardisation, trend analysis, Weather, weather trends, z-scores

UK Weather Trends #11 – Autumn 2019

December 8, 2019 By Nigel Marriott

The UK experienced unremarkable weather in all respects in Autumn 2019.

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: multivariate data, Presenting data, principal components analysis, standardisation, trend analysis, Weather, weather trends, z-scores

UK Weather Trends #10 – Summer 2019

September 12, 2019 By Nigel Marriott

The 2019 summer was the 7th wettest on record but was also unusually warm given the amount of rain that fell.  I have made a prediction that summer 2020 will not be a good one!

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: multivariate data, Presenting data, principal components analysis, standardisation, trend analysis, Weather, weather trends, z-scores

UK Weather Trends #9 – Spring 2019

June 6, 2019 By Nigel Marriott

The 2019 spring was consistent with the step change in the autumnal climate that took place in the 1990s but was unremarkable otherwise

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: multivariate data, Presenting data, principal components analysis, standardisation, trend analysis, Weather, weather trends, z-scores

Pay Gap Case Study #2 – Year on year trends, the good, bad and Unilever

April 24, 2019 By Nigel Marriott

Welcome to my next case study where I look at the pay gap figures of Unilever Ltd.  Unilever turn out to be a very interesting case study for analysing year on year changes in their published statistics.  In this case I will be looking at the changes between 2017 and 2018 for the two Unilever business units that have submitted GPG data which are:-

  1. Unilever UK Ltd
  2. Unilever UK Central Resources Ltd

Clicking on those links will take you to the government’s gender pay gap website where you can see their published figures.  For this post, I will be using my own spreadsheet which you can download for yourselves here.

 

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: detecting unusual data, Gender Pay Gap, Presenting data, trend analysis

Pay Gap Trends #1 – Did the gender pay gap close in 2018?

April 10, 2019 By Nigel Marriott

With the publication of the 2018 gender pay gap data, many people want to know if the UK has made progress on closing its gender pay gap.  The short answer is there was no change in 2018 from 2017.

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: Data journalism, Gender Pay Gap, Presenting data, trend analysis

UK Weather Trends #8 – Winter 2019

March 8, 2019 By Nigel Marriott

The winter of 2019 was consistent with the step change in the winter climate that took place in the 1990s.

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: multivariate data, Presenting data, principal components analysis, standardisation, trend analysis, Weather, weather trends, z-scores

UK Weather Trends #7 – Autumn 2018

December 6, 2018 By Nigel Marriott

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.

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