Is the UK's coast poor? Yes, but only because of England. A blog post in which I share how to create this map of coastal income -- and explain why I'm not sharing the map of income for the whole of the countries until I've cheered up a bit. https://odileeds.org/blog/2020-08-18-is-the-uk-coast-poor-.html

As @felicityburch says -- the maps are very pretty. All praise to the national statisticians at @NISRA, @ONS, @NatRecordsScot, @InseeFr, @Statbel_en, and @CSOIreland.

Since they are all such good and nice people I will not do a ranking from best to worst of whose small area income data and small area geographies was easiest to work with and gave the best results. If you'd like your country included, tell us here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A_NJWT3CM_XrC6kcOZ_8Tou-FFzZJaT5D5S6dheokRc/edit

My favourite within-country maps compare England's Rugby League belt (poor cities surrounded by specks of rural/suburban prosperity and a poor coast) with Brittany (rich cities surrounded by rural poverty but with a rich coast). (I know the UK city locations are slightly off).

ps. As I've written, the reason I've not shared the filled in maps is because I've done that before with caveats and had blue-tick twitter crop my caveats out and re-share them with dishonest summaries. So a green MSOA of Wales has a lower income than a green MSOA of England.

In other words the same income might be middle income in Wales but low income in France. So I wrote an algorithm to try and adjust for that, and it works quite well, it's a stack-ranking and normalisation algorithm but they've become quite infamous in recent weeks. So I stopped.

Here's a good blog post by @salmonofdata thinking through some of the problems with trying to compare income data across borders which helped me a fair bit (and to which I'll link properly in the next blog post). https://sluggerotoole.com/2018/03/26/is-northern-ireland-dramatically-poorer-than-the-republic/

Big win for coastal Angus' strawberries over inland Perthshire's in this evening's reduced Co-op strawberries taste off. Though both are delicious and it's mostly a trade-off between the longer-life, more durable, and cheaper to pick Murano and the more delicious Magnum variety.

Magnum is a French variety whose grower advertising emphasises taste. Murano is an Italian variety whose grower advertising emphasises lost of industrial words. But they are both nice. Horses for courses.

How simple can we make the coast? What about just making it a straight line? What does that let us do? We looked at that. We wrote lots of code and used lots of data about Ireland, particularly Northern Ireland, to test our thinking. I wrote it up here. https://odileeds.org/blog/2020-09-22-is-the-coast-poor-.html

I'm not quite sure why I like this "map" of Ireland's coast. Simplified to just 12 lines. Income calculated as the average for all places within 10 kilometres of the coast.