Deep breath I’m leaving Hampshire County Council, and am stepping down as lead for the Hampshire Hub. There, I’ve said it. Looking back I wrote my first post Hampshire Hub (Thoughts on What a Hampshire Hub might be) in February …
The “Cambridge Phenomenon” Since 1960, the Greater Cambridge area has been home to an ever-increasing cluster of technology, life sciences and services business known as the “Cambridge Phenomenon” (http://www.cambridgephenomenon.com/) . The success to date has been widely celebrated, but is …
Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude has recognised sixteen local and regional authorities – including Hampshire County Council – as open data champions. More information is available in the announcement on GOV.UK and in a blog post on DATA.GOV.UK by …
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Open Science has emerged into the mainstream, primarily due to concerted efforts from various individuals, institutions, and initiatives. This small, focused gathering brought together several of those community leaders. The purpose of the meeting was to define common goals, discuss …
‘Open Source, Open Science’ meeting report – March 2015 Read more »
(Waterloo, Ont. – March 19, 2015) The mayor’s advisory committee for age-friendly Waterloo has developed and published an older adults housing directory to assist the aging population in Waterloo with the task of finding affordable and appropriate housing. On June …
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This is a guest post by Leo Valberg, Senior Data Scientist at Nquiringminds. This post was originally published on the Nquiringminds blog. The Open City Data Platform is one of the initiatives the Hampshire Hub Partnership is involved with. #1 The …
Back story: the data journey in the production of the GP pressure map Read more »
This site has been designed using various open source technologies, including Drupal for handling the presentation and page requests (front-end), and CKAN for the back-end catalogue and content management service. Having reached this important milestone, Croatia has now gained 50 …
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This is a guest post, written by David Patterson of Know Now Information, about the Whether You Do or Weather You Don’t (WUDoWUD) initiative. It was originally published on the Know Now blog. Our WUDoWUD project has seen significant progress …
Solid information on population counts by region and sub-region is vital for the ongoing local planning of services, such as schools, children’s centres and transport provisions and infrastructure. Such data also comes into its own for contingency planning for, and …
Data Story: Population estimates – Why are they useful? Read more »
The Cambridge sub-region housing profiles show information about housing stock, households and data about affordable housing demand at a parish or ward level. It combines secondary data sources such as the 2011 Census with primary data from the local housing …
Data Story: The housing profiles project- Showing local housing need and development Read more »