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Of beer, Wayne Rooney’s contract and data journalism [guest post]

This is a guest post composed by Billy Ehrenberg, a Beyond the Ale fan and the editor of London Running Blog.

If you’re anything like me you’ll have read with a pair of raised eyebrows the news that Wayne Rooney has been awarded a £300,000-a-week contract (arbitrary link to article) .

You’ll also have struggled to turn that whopping figure into something more tangible, and are perhaps in need of a context that’s easy to comprehend.

So here is a choropleth map showing how much beers cost across Europe and, crucially, how many beers Mr. Rooney could afford on his bumper new salary. If you are reading this on a mobile device, it is definitely worth powering up the PC. The map is really very nice.

Note: click on the map to be taken to an interactive version on my Tumblr page.

As you can see that is a lot of beer/s. Note that he can buy more beers in Eastern Europe than in Norway, and that some of the countries that have suffered most in the Euro crisis, such as Italy and Greece, don’t actually have very cheap beers, adding insult to injury.

Here are the 10 most expensive countries to grab a beer in. As top tens go, there are few surprises here.

Note: click on the map to be taken to an interactive version on my Tumblr page.

Who knew? Those expensive Scandinavian countries charge you a lot for beer too. Luckily there are some cheaper options at the other end of the beer spectrum:

Note: click on the map to be taken to an interactive version on my Tumblr page.

This is, I’m told, a good trick in data journalism: get some numbers and then use something that’s easy to comprehend as a measure.

Human brains are wonderful pieces of kit, but really struggle when asked to get to grips with big numbers. Sometimes simple visualisations of big numbers or data put in everyday contexts make everything a little easier to understand.

However there is another lesson here for budding data journalists, such as myself.

The data I used was ostensibly sound (even if we ignore the taxation levied on Wayne, as I did in my number crunching).

After all, what could be a sounder source of beer-based stats than pintprice.com? Surely all they do is collate and disseminate the various prices of beers?

Well yes, but they also rely on crowdsourced data; on tourists reporting the prices of beers. We have no info on how many people contributed. I can also say that after a recent trip to Bruges, I would have drunk the hand off anyone able to provide a pint for £2.97. Still, it’s a pretty map.

See the original version of this post here. If you’re interested in writing a guest post for Beyond the Ale, please comment below or tweet us @Beyond_the_Ale.

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