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Football legend Laurie Cunningham honoured with blue plaque

Football legend Laurie Cunningham honoured with blue plaque

In September 2016 football legend Laurie Cunningham was honoured with a blue plaque at his childhood home.

Dan Wainwright created an interactive map for the story: Who has a blue plaque where you live?

Data

• Blue plaques in the UK - a subset of the data available on Open Plaques

Visualisation

• Interactive map: Who has a blue plaque where you live?

Only 6% of blue plaques awarded in the UK honour women

• Anna Noble created a Tableau dashboard using the data from this repo to tell a different story: Only 6% of blue plaques awarded in the UK honour women. The dashboard allows you to explore blue plaques for women by location, and also find out who is recognised. Queen Victoria and George Eliot have six blue plaques each!

You can also read a blog post on how Anna used the data in a session on data visualisation at the Data Journalism UK 2016 conference.