Will Deakin @wnd@fosstodon.org (@WillDeakin1) / X

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@WillDeakin1

I do governance for British railway IT plus European regulation I believe data makes rail passengers lives better. Ask me how! #Physicist #OpenData #DataScience

Joined January 2020

Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
Jan 1, 2024
For those interested in such things, here are cuts of the @railandroad 2021/22 passenger travel data projected onto a shortest-path network using the centre-line track-model with log and linear colour gradient and line width Thanks to @undertheraedar @poggs #rail #DataVis
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Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
Feb 23, 2024
For those interested in such things based on the ORR Great Britain passenger origin-destination matrix, here is a short animation showing the change aggregated rail passenger flow in FY2019/20-2021/22 #DataVisualization #rail #PassengerTransport #ChangeInDemand
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Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
Jan 9, 2024
For those interested in such things, the nice folk at @OpenInnovates asked me to blog about recent passenger journey visualization shenanigans. Thanks to @paulcconnell for the invitation, #taz and #stuart at OI publishing this, and @undertheraedar @poggs
open-innovations.org
Passenger journeys: pictures at a (rail transport) exhibition
This blog is about using the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) passenger travel data projected onto a shortest-path network to create a visualisation for passenger journey numbers for the active rail...
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Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
Jan 2, 2024
Replying to @WillDeakin1
Update: the 2 657 images showing the ORR 2021/22 passenger travel data for each of the active mainline railway stations here github.com/anisotropi4/ki…. The main code still needs work and will be posted on GitHub here github.com/anisotropi4/ki…
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Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
Jan 2, 2024
For those interested in such things, here are 2 657 images showing the ORR 2021/22 passenger travel data projected onto a shortest-path network for each of the active mainline railway stations github.com/anisotropi4/ki… #DataVisualization #Rail #PassengerData #ORR #2021 1/2
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Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
Jan 1, 2024
Replying to @DanielPhilips1 @railandroad and 2 others
FWIW I excluded the LDS to LDS (and other zero distance) point data from the original dataset. Here is the Leeds railway station data at a slightly different scale
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Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
Feb 19, 2023
For those interested in such things, here is a theoretical rail-network based on applying a minimum spanning tree to a series of scaled hexagon population distributions geographies #RailNetwork #DataVisualisation #Census2021
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Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
Feb 24, 2024
For those interested in such things, a per station animation of the FY2018-2022 #ORR Origin Destination Matrix (#ODM) dataset for 2 579 rail stations in Britain github.com/anisotropi4/ki… Details here github.com/anisotropi4/ki… #DataScience #DataVisualization #rail #RailPassenger
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Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
Jan 3, 2024
Update: the site should be back here github.com/anisotropi4/ki… Given the popularity I'm going to look at an alternative hosting solution but hopefully this will work for a bit. Please shout if it isn't* * As if you wouldn't
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Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
May 23, 2020
I would like to thank all the staff at @YorkTeachingNHS in York A&E and Day Admissions today for the kindness and care given to an anxious bloke with chest pains, and the reassurance it was skeletomuscular brought on by to stress at work rather than an acute coronary event
Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
Feb 26, 2020
Really enjoyed @tracywestall's talk at #raildigital2020. Great points about #digitaldisruption #leadership and #resilience
Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
Jan 2, 2023
Replying to @undertheraedar
The fix is in, with 202 country files, 17 regions with 19,752MB of zip'd GeoPackage files for the 47.8M km of repackaged Microsoft road data Code here github.com/anisotropi4/ro… (14 of 17 processed regions data are also hosted) Any further questions shout
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Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
May 14, 2023
For those interested in such things here is a draft set of UK rail planning (TIPLOC) and operations (STANOX) locations snapped to the centre-line track-model, or OpenStreetMap data where require Code and data is here github.com/anisotropi4/wo… #DataVisualisation #rail 1/2
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Will Deakin @[email protected]
@WillDeakin1
Feb 8, 2024
Replying to @SwissKrono_JH @Coneee and @BloombergUK
No. It's GB not UK by design The Irish dataset is not available otherwise I would have visualised that For the absence of doubt, I did ask and told this is not available either for NI or elsewhere
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