Originally published on 29th Jun 2015 Nobody talks much about the pitfalls of using open data in a real life project. I’ll make a start. My first real application of open data was to supplement the education pages on my wife’s …
July 14, 2015 As fintech startups continue to disrupt traditional financial services, banks are waking up to the fact that offering an open API, where developers can latch on and create very specific customized app solutions, is the way in …
Eric Carter, Contributing Writer, Dartsand May. 08 2015, 02:08PM EDT Eight local authorities in the U.K. have partnered to build and release an API designed to help people calculate the cost of residential care. The Deferred Payment Agreement (DPA) Calculator API is …
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We’re going to be creating a series of images that show statistics from the #EULife Open Data set using the API Explorer. It’s a great way to familiarise yourself with the data that’s in the Eurofound European Quality of Life …
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Latest crime data shows that the UK is getting significantly more ‘peaceful’. Last month, the Institute for Economics and Peace published the UK Peace Index, revealing UK crime figures have fallen the most of all EU countries in the past …
Our #EULife AppChallenge is a competition, running from 1st July 2015 to 30th September 2015 to encourage you to develop innovative new apps using European Quality of Life open data that we have published with help from Eurofound and the …
In this short tutorial Ralph Cochrane & Philipp Rustemeier show you how to access and sign up for the UK Data Service Open Data API. We have made the European Quality of Life Survey from Eurofound (2007 & 2011) available …
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In this popular tutorial we use freely available tools to build an web app in Javascript and HTML that accesses the #EULife Open Data via the UK Data Service Open Data API and allows you to view the European Quality …
In this tutorial Ralph Cochrane & Philip Rustemeier show you how to look at the UK Data Service Open Data API which contains the European Quality of Life Survey Open Data that you’ll need to enter the #EULife AppChallenge. Using …
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Python is a popular programming language that makes it easier to interrogate and read data. The results are similar to a “report” format so it’s popular with data scientists. It also comes pre-installed with many operating systems e.g. Mac OSX. …