JN3800 Data Skills Test

Despite recent allegations that two footballers racially insulted opposition players, some of the worst affected towns across northern England are showing promising results in their fight against racism.

Luis Suarez and John Terry are currently under investigation by the Football Association authorities after two separate complaints were filed by two opposition players.

Whilst the Football Association has worked tirelessly to remove racism from the sport, should either player be found guilty then football will take a disappointing step backwards.

In an attempt to show whether racial incidents have been increasing or decreasing in England the above graph shows incidents across northern regions of England where over 1,000 racial incidents have been reported in between the years 2008-2011.

Territorial police forces have been actively attempting to rid the country of an old, dated form of discrimination, with most forces producing promising results. Greater Manchester, Lancashire, and Merseyside have all seen year-on-year falls in the number of reported racial incidents, whilst Northumbria and West Yorkshire are the only regions to have reported rises in the last year. South Yorkshire reported a rise in 2009/10, yet saw a decrease this year.

Below are the full statistics on racial incidents in England and Wales:

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The Guardian published the statistics on their Data Blog section of their website. The figures show a 1.4% drop in racial incidents over the past year.

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JN3800 Mapping Skills Test

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The above map shows the local children around Preston. In the LEP, there were several children-related stories and I decided that I would use this as my theme. Two of the stories is of children excelling in the community, whilst the other two stories feature a child illness and a Labour Club under review through child safety concerns.

Images Skills Test - UCLan Building

Original Image:

100x100 Thumbnail:

400x300:

200x500:



These set of images show the C+T building, which belongs to the University of Central Lancashire. The initial image is the one that I took using the camera on my phone. It shows the whole building and some exterior excess, such as the road and another building attached to my focus building.

The first image, the 100x100 thumbnail, had to be cropped slightly, but very little was lost of the surroundings. Because the blue building is also part of the C+T building, I decided to crop the attached building on the right so as to leave intact as much of the original building as possible.

The second image, the 400x300 meant I had more space to use and create more of a natural focus – so the road and the attached building remained. As the sizing did not differ too much from that of the original image, the quality of the image remained.

Finally, the third image was slightly difficult. Because the emphasis is on the height of the image (200x500) it took me longer to figure out how I wanted to crop the image. Eventually, I decided to leave the ‘UCLan’ name and logo in the image because if it was cropped out of it then the viewer would find it almost impossible to gather what the image was portraying. Most of the excess around the building was lost, but if someone saw the new 200x500 image they would see the sign attached to a building and would understand that it was indeed a university building.