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QuantativeBrah@QuantMashineThe UK taxpayer has footed the bill due to government mismanagement. Over 10 years here are some of the worst cases: 🧵
Oct 13, 202631 tweets♥ 805QuantativeBrah@QuantMashineForeign national students debt in the UK has gone from £93 million to £1.21 billion in under 10 years. When i saw that i knew i had to break down the data by nationality: 🧵
SummaryUK foreign national student debt has surged from £93 million to £1.21 billion in under a decade, with Romanian students accounting for the largest share of loans. The data reveals concerning patterns including high non-repayment rates, predominance of maintenance loans over tuition support, and a spike in loan arrears among non-UK borrowers, particularly affecting older students seeking maximum financial support.Oct 7, 202615 tweets♥ 2.7KQuantativeBrah@QuantMashineAfter seeing this I took a deep dive into the amount that Pakistani’s within the UK send to Pakistan: 🧵
SummaryA thread analyzing remittance flows from Pakistanis in the UK to Pakistan, showing the UK is the third-largest source of remittances to Pakistan after only two other countries, with amounts increasing 31% year-over-year at roughly $4,000 per person annually—a figure that exceeds total Pakistani exports from most countries.Oct 6, 20267 tweets♥ 2.6KQuantativeBrah@QuantMashineThe UK government may not want to crime release data broken down by ethnicity. I have been scraping daily court data to get first and surnames of all people who appeared in court in the country. This...
SummaryA researcher is scraping daily UK court data to analyze patterns in names of defendants appearing in court, inferring ethnicity from first and surnames to analyze disparities in the criminal justice system. They've published day 26 findings comparing the demographic composition of court appearances against census data and using name-based ethnicity inference tools.Sep 28, 202619 tweets♥ 6.7KQuantativeBrah@QuantMashine🚨 The Crown Court scraper has been running for 20 days and just hit 16,000 unique people. The UK Government are rightly terrified to release crime data as it would be too hard to ignore the data: 🧵
SummaryA Crown Court data scraper collected records on 16,004 unique people across 15,696 cases over 20 days, revealing demographic patterns in UK criminal court cases. The analysis shows top first names and surnames by frequency and over-representation compared to the general population, with data on the busiest courts.Sep 18, 20267 tweets♥ 2.1KQuantativeBrah@QuantMashine