Series · 2 parts
Who London's 1,037 blue plaques remember, and the geometry of where they sit.
On walks, I try to guess who London’s blue plaques commemorate. I scraped English Heritage’s 1,037 plaques to look at the list as a whole; the people remembered form a smaller, more uneven portrait of London than I expected.
The companion piece maps their clustering, draws nearest-plaque territories across the city, and finds a route through the boroughs.
I scraped every English Heritage blue plaque in London to ask who gets remembered and where. The answer is a surprisingly tiny, surprisingly male, surprisingly literary corner of...
A companion piece that treats 1,036 blue plaques as a spatial point pattern and an optimisation problem: proving the clustering with statistics, carving London into nearest-plaque territories, and...
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