Names: everyone’s got one but how has yours performed over the past 110 years? Are you a comeback kid, a disappearing act or a completely new entry? Find out using our interactive graphic that shows the top 100 names for baby …

Baby names since 1904: how has yours performed? Read more »

Birmingham City Council recently announced that they would be “opening up the council’s vast amounts of data, so members of the public can judge our performance.” Their first offering is a “a dashboard that outlines how well each ward is …

Birmingham’s Rubbish Read more »

#HackFrancophonie is a new upcoming open data camp led by French-speaking countries such as France and Burkina Faso. The event is organized by GODAN partners Burkina Faso Open Data Initiative (BODI) and the World Bank, and includes the Open Data Etalab …

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Marianne Bouchart, communications director and Data Journalism Award Manager at the Global Editors Network, shares her list of tools and tips for sourcing data online

The Whitehall Monitor is the Institute for Government’s data journalism project. Today, just a week before the final Spending Review settlements are revealed, we launched our third annual report, ‘The Coalition in 163 charts’. Gavin Freeguard highlighted some of these …

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In this four-part series, we explore the ways that open data transforms the world. Sound extreme? Putting data behind seemingly intractable problems is the best way to tackle them, whether it’s providing access to nutritious food, combating disease, saving the …

Open Data Power: Better Natural Resource Management Read more »

(This article was first published on Working With Data » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This entry is part 18 of 18 in the series Using R Seattle’s Pronto bikeshare system recently announced a Data Challenge for data visualization using …

Visualizing Bikeshare Data Read more »

Men in the highest professions are outliving the average woman in England and Wales for the first time. Research on life expectancy by socioeconomic position between 2007 and 2011 revealed that men in the most advantaged group of higher managerial …

Most affluent man now outlives the average woman for the first time Read more »

Children who spent more than three hours using social networking websites on a school day were twice as likely to report high or very high scores for mental ill-health. The Children’s Well-being 2015 publication, which for the first time includes …

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(This article was first published on AriLamstein.com » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Today I finished two projects that had been on my mind for a while: Try out ggvis, the interactive successor to ggplot2 Create interactive scatterplots of census data You …

Interactive Scatterplots of Census Data Using ggvis Read more »