In March 2020 the England Data Unit and the Shared Data Unit worked with the Local Democracy Reporting Service to report on delays to plans to reduce high-polluting vehicles travelling around UK cities due to the coronavirus crisis.
We looked at air pollution data and found that levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) had fallen since people were told to work from home the previous week.
The Shared Data Unit makes data journalism available to news organisations across the media industry, as part of a partnership between the 成人快手 and the News Media Association. Stories generated by the partnership included:
- Warwick: The Courier: 26 March 2020
- Portsmouth: The News: 27 March 2020
- Eastbourne Herald: 27 March 2020
- Lincolnshire Live: 27 March 2020
- Glasgow Live: 28 March 2020
- Manchester Evening News: 29 March 2020
- Grimsby Live: 30 March 2020
- Edinburgh Evening News: 30 March 2020
- Wigan Today: 31 March 2020
- Derbyshire Live: 31 March 2020
- Leeds Live: 1 April 2020
- Somerset Live: 2 April 2020
- Bristol Live: 3 April 2020
- Bournemouth Daily Echo: 5 April 2020
Get the data
- CSV: and
- CSV:
- CSV:
- XLSX:
Quotes and interviews
- Spokesman, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
- Councillor Tom Hayes, cabinet member for Zero Carbon Oxford
- Judith Blake, Council leader, Leeds City Council
Visualisation
- Grouped bar chart: Air pollution in cities, March 2019 vs March 2020
Code
- R script: (Anna Khoo)
- R notebook: (Paul Bradshaw)
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In March 2020 the England Data Unit and the Shared Data Unit worked with the Local Democracy Reporting Service to report on delays to plans to reduce high-polluting vehicles travelling around UK cities due to the coronavirus crisis.
We looked at air pollution data and found that levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) had fallen since people were told to work from home the previous week.
The Shared Data Unit makes data journalism available to news organisations across the media industry, as part of a partnership between the 成人快手 and the News Media Association. Stories generated by the partnership included:
- Warwick: The Courier: 26 March 2020
- Portsmouth: The News: 27 March 2020
- Eastbourne Herald: 27 March 2020
- Lincolnshire Live: 27 March 2020
- Glasgow Live: 28 March 2020
- Manchester Evening News: 29 March 2020
- Grimsby Live: 30 March 2020
- Edinburgh Evening News: 30 March 2020
- Wigan Today: 31 March 2020
- Derbyshire Live: 31 March 2020
- Leeds Live: 1 April 2020
- Somerset Live: 2 April 2020
- Bristol Live: 3 April 2020
- Bournemouth Daily Echo: 5 April 2020
Get the data
- CSV: and
- CSV:
- CSV:
- XLSX:
Quotes and interviews
- Spokesman, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
- Councillor Tom Hayes, cabinet member for Zero Carbon Oxford
- Judith Blake, Council leader, Leeds City Council
Visualisation
- Grouped bar chart: Air pollution in cities, March 2019 vs March 2020
Code
- R script: (Anna Khoo)
- R notebook: (Paul Bradshaw)
Related repos
You can