UK University league table.

This is my attempt at a master table. The methodology is as follows:

• All  league tables are eligible for inclusion provided they have multiple, quantitative, measures. There should be no evidence of confirmation bias, and the methodology should be sound. If multiple subjective criteria are used then the league table will not be included.
• The ranking will be determined by giving a 50:50 weighting to international and domestic (UK based) league tables, the justification for this is that they usually paint different pictures due to significantly different methodology, thus giving an incentive to combine the tables in this way.
• League tables that only emphasize one aspect of the quality of a university (such as research) will be given half the weighting of a table that emphasizes multiple qualities. Note a league table must still have multiple different measures of this one aspect to qualify. 
• The most up to data data possible is used, league tables that are more than 3 years out of data will not qualify.
• The emphasis is on high ranking universities, consequently the full table will not be released, due to the implementation of a cap further down for practical reasons. 
• The scores are quantitative and rounded to the nearest 1%. Any two universities within a percent of each other are assigned equal ranking. The highest ranking university will receive a perfect score. 

The current rankings (April 11th 2014), use 9 different league tables (see below table) and are as follows:

Position	University	Score (%)
1	Cambridge	100
2	Oxford	97
=3	UCL	86
=3	ICL	86
5	LSE	72
6	Durham	65
7	St. Andrews	64
8	Warwick	61
9	Edinburgh	59
10	Bristol	58

Created with the HTML Table Generator

Sources: Times/Sunday Times, Complete university guide, Guardian, THES, QS, Shanghai rankings, Webometrics, CWTS, URAP

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Fantastic GIF explaining Fourier transforms.

GIF straight from the Fourier transform Wikipedia article. Explains the essence of Fourier transforms in an easy to understand way in less than thirty seconds pictorially. Kudos to whoever made this great animation.


source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fourier_transform_time_and_frequency_domains_(small).gif

Blog!

If/when I start blogging I will probably be writing about the following:

• State of the cryosphere; mainly the arctic sea ice.
• Meteorology enthusiasm which mostly involves looking at computer models. 
• Interesting and beautiful stuff from science I happen to come across

And here are some graphs of QBO (Quasi-Biennial oscilation) and CET (central England temperature) in winter. Just b'cos..