https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/tictoc/ Recent content in Tictoc on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 16 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/05/16/postcode-pandemonium/ Sat, 16 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/05/16/postcode-pandemonium/ Postcodes in Bath are unlikely to score highly (via Wikimedia) tl;dr I used the R package {data.table} to find the highest- and lowest-scoring UK postcodes based on the sum of their numbers and letters (A = 1, B = 2, etc). You can jump to the results. The premise Yesterday I noticed that the hashtag #PostcodePandemonium was trending on Twitter.1 The premise was to sum the numbers and letters in your postcode, where the letters have been converted to their position in the alphabet (i.