We did lots of things with this.
Questions:
1) Which country is each of the ‘financial capitals’ in?
2) We know the number of financial employees and the % of total employment that is financial services, so how many workers are there altogether?
3) What is the percentage increase/decrease in rent if you move from London to each of the other cities?
4) Comment on the diagrams that are used.
5) In which country is beer overpriced?
Comments/Answers:
1) We talked discussed the reasons why Berlin isn’t the financial centre of Germany.
2) We divided the first column by the percentage column and expected that this would give the population of the city. The numbers seemed to be far too big. We then decided that the percentage column (financial services as a percentage of total employment) is actually a percentage of the whole country and not the city.
3) This was straightforward.
4) Comment on the diagrams:
a. Number of financial employees: seems to use area – this is appropriate.
b. Financial services as a %: the whole bar is 18.6% – the rest are compared to this.
c. The beer seemed particularly odd. The cost of one pint of beer is shown with several full and partially filled pint glasses, where each full glass stands for £1. It seems rather odd to have 3½ pint glasses standing for the £3.46 price of one pint.
d. We didn’t like the taxi graphic much either.
5) To find out where beer is overpriced we compared the price of a pint to the taxi journey in each country and also to the average rent.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/11/the-city-exodus-is-already-happening-it-just-doesnt-look-like-yo/
