By chance, I spotted a tweet this evening from @owenboswarva pointing to a #DVLA data release: number of licence holders with penalty points, broken down by postcode district [link] | #FOI #opendata. A quick search turned up some DfT driving…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: Isle of Wight
Impressions from Data Sketches
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: data, Data stories, Department for Transport (DfT), driving license, Isle of Wight, open data, penalty points, population, population growth, Tony Hirst, Transport, Travel
Tinkering With Data Consuming WordPress Plugins
Now that I’ve got my own webspace on Reclaim Hosting and set up a handful of my own WordPress blog, I started having a tinker with some custom plugins. I’ve started off with something simple, a couple of shortcode plugins…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: data, house sales, Isle of Wight, land registry, mapping, planning applications, Plugins, Tony Hirst, WordPress
Good stuff, continued
This is a slightly edited version of a post originally published on DATA.GOV.UK In my previous post I argued that a combination of ‘chance’ and open data can lead to good stuff happening. I supplied a few examples, and also…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Big Data, Commercial opportunities, Data, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Open Data Aha, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Resilience, Saving money, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: Chris Gutteridge, crowdsourcing, Crowdsourcing Landscape Change, Data stories, data visualisation, DATA.GOV.UK, Dr Ash Smith, flood, Flood Event Model, Flooding, Hampshire, Hartree Centre, Isle of Wight, Know Now, Landscape Watch, Landscape Watch Hampshire, Mark Braggins, minecraft, Nick Allott, NquiringMinds, On the Wight, open data, Open Data Camp, Remote Sensing Application Consultants (RSAC), STFC, University of Portsmouth, University of Southampton, Ventnor
Data Driven Press Releases From HSCIC Data – Diabetes Prescribing
By chance, I saw a tweet from the HSCIC yesterday announcing Prescribing for Diabetes, England – 2005/06 to 2014/15′ http://bit.ly/1J3h0g8 #hscicstats. The data comes via a couple of spreadsheets, broken down at the CCG level. As an experiment, I thought…
Posted in Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Smart communities, Transparency, Visualising data Tagged with: Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG), data driven, health, Health & Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Isle of Wight, open data, Press Release, public health, Tony Hirst
Minecraft Ventnor: If you know a Minecraft fan, this will blow their minds
We know it sounds like click-bait, but this really is amazing! Someone’s built the whole of Ventnor Seafront out of life-sized 1m blocks, in Minecraft.
Posted in Benefits of open data, Innovation, Journalism, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: Chris Gutteridge, data visualisation, Isle of Wight, minecraft, On the Wight, open data, Simon Perry, Ventnor