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1. The website of the Employment Tribunal (https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions) holds over 75,000 decisions and was used very effectively by Bloomberg in 2019 to investigate allegations of sexual discrimination brought against UK companies (https://bloom.bg/2U5aJir). In the first half of 2021, how many decisions were made concerning the Equal Pay Act, in England & Wales?
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2. Petitions to parliament and government are run and archived on a dedicated site. One petition (https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/229178) closed in 2019 with around 188,000 signatures and claimed teenagers were too tired to start school at very early hours. At the bottom of the page is a link to the data in more detail ('Get petition data'). What format is the data in?
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3. Follow the link to the petition data. If it appears as a page of text, copy it all and paste it into http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/ (paste into the 'Text' tab and then read with the 'Viewer' tab). One section of the data shows where people were when they signed (or where they said they were). What is the first place listed under ‘Signatures by country’ ?
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4. The BBC covered a report in 2021 that said the UK would need 400,000 charging points for electric vehicles by 2030, up from 35,000 (https://bbc.in/2StWiUw). This page (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/find-and-use-data-on-public-electric-vehicle-chargepoints) supplies data on charging points in the UK. What different forms does it offer the data in?
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5. In 2018, a group of mathematicians solved an instance of a maths problem (https://bit.ly/3vkvW4M) using this data (http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/pubs/files/uk24727_latlong.txt). What kind of file is this?
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6. The data shows a list of geographical coordinates for over 24,000 pubs in the UK. For each location there is a latitude and longitude supplied. Where is the first pub located?
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7 . The BBC Shared Data Unit worked on a story in 2018 about the cost of policing football matches. They published the details and the data on github (https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/policing-football). Under "Get the data" they supply a link to their data. How did they publish it?
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