This repository contains code and data for working with datasets for the SEFARI visualising complexity workshop https://visualisingcomplexity.wordpress.com.

These datasets were taken from http://statistics.gov.scot. Visit the website for more datasets, but remember to concentrate on data visualisation, not data acquisition and preparation! Files are contained in two folders, raw and prepared. You can view the cleaning process in the file repo/VC_clean.R, some liberties were taken. A summary of the datasets is shown in this Rmarkdown file. Prepared data are either wide (with each year as a column) or normalised (e.g. database optimised). Normalised data are in a single file, normalised_data.csv, and prepared data are in:

• population-estimates-historical-geographic-boundaries http://statistics.gov.scot/data/population-estimates-historical-geographic-boundaries Mid-year population estimates. Higher geographies are aggregated from 2001 Data Zones.
• electricity-consumption.csv http://statistics.gov.scot/data/energy-consumption Consumption (GWh) by energy (electricity) and customer type (all)
• average-household-size.csv http://statistics.gov.scot/data/average-household-size The average number of people per household in each council area and in Scotland.
• business-site-counts.csv http://statistics.gov.scot/data/business-site-counts Number of business sites by employee size band.
• employment.csv http://statistics.gov.scot/data/employment Employment level.
• road-vehicles.csv http://statistics.gov.scot/data/road-vehicles Road vehicle fuel consumption.

Additionally, there is spatial data for the Scottish local authorities. These were adapted from Ordnance Survey Boundary Line data https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/boundary-line.html.

A sample R script is in the repo directory for joining data together. Please adapt and reuse as required. Also included is the R script used for rudimentary cleaning.