https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/ice-cream-hotspots

Ice cream for lunch?
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/ice-cream-hotspots

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Ice cream for lunch?

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/ice-cream-hotspots
• Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
• Created: 2019-07-29T11:54:35.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-07-29T12:40:45.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-07T05:28:15.577Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: food, fsa, heatwave, icecream, live, quirky, weather
• Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-49109437?ns_linkname=5d396efcef0ce9067bfed45f%26Ice%20cream%20for%20lunch%3F%262019-07-25T11%3A15%3A44.522Z&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:ebf2408c-38c3-44e7-95c6-97315fe716f1&pinned_post_asset_id=5d396efcef0ce906
• Size: 611 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Ice cream for lunch?

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBC-Data-Unit/ice-cream-hotspots/master/icecreamliveblog.png)

On July 25 2019, as the BBC's liveblog reported on the country's heatwave, the BBC Data Unit [contributed a quick story on the places in the country with the most ice cream vans](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-49109437?ns_linkname=5d396efcef0ce9067bfed45f%26Ice%20cream%20for%20lunch%3F%262019-07-25T11%3A15%3A44.522Z&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:ebf2408c-38c3-44e7-95c6-97315fe716f1&pinned_post_asset_id=5d396efcef0ce9067bfed45f). 

The chart was based on an analysis of both Food Standards Agency data from England, Northern Ireland and Walves, and separately for Scotland.

## Get the data 

* XML: [search results for 'ice cream' from the Food Standards Agency](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/ice-cream-hotspots/blob/master/icecream.xml)

* CSV: [search results for 'ice cream' from the Food Standards Agency](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/ice-cream-hotspots/blob/master/icecream.csv)

* XML: [search results for 'ice cream' in Scotland from the Food Standards Agency](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/ice-cream-hotspots/blob/master/scoticecreamxml.xml)

* CSV: [search results for 'ice cream' in Scotland from the Food Standards Agency](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/ice-cream-hotspots/blob/master/icecreamscot.csv)

## Visualisation

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBC-Data-Unit/ice-cream-hotspots/master/icecreamvan_barchart.png)

* Bar chart: Mobile catering businesses with 'ice cream' in the title, by local authority (top 10)

## Related repos

The Data Unit also contributed an update to the same liveblog on [the hottest lines on the Tube](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/tube-hottest-lines)

## Related stories

The day after the BBC live update, the Mirror news website published *[Ice cream van capitals of UK revealed - see if your town makes the list](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ice-cream-van-capitals-uk-18784887)*, adding a per capita figure and broadening the search to include *""mr whippy", "mister softee", "walls" and "soft serve", among others"* which identified over 1,700 establishments.

It added that "A Guardian estimate in 2013 put the number of ice cream vans at more like 2,500 - based on the number of new vehicles produced every year", but that "an estimate by insurance company NCASS for the Sunday People put the figure even higher, at 5,000."