A recent post on the ONS Digital blog – Dueling with datasets – describes some of the design decisions taken when putting together the new Office for National Statistics website (such as having a single page for a particular measure…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
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Chatting With ONS Data Via a Simple Slackbot
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Data Journalism, Education, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Journalism, Posts from feeds, Research, Smart communities Tagged with: chat, conversation, ONS, ONS Digital, open data, Slack, Slackbot, Tony Hirst
Impressions from Data Sketches
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…
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
Idle Thoughts on “Data Literacy” in the Library…
In part for a possible OU Library workshop, in part trying to mull over possible ideas for an upcoming ILI2015 workshop with Brian Kelly, I’ve been pondering what sorts of “data literacy” skills are in-scope for a typical academic library.…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Education, Posts from feeds, Smart communities Tagged with: data, data curation, data literacy, data reporting, data resourcing, data sensemaking, libraries, open data, Open University, Tony Hirst
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
Don’ Panic – The Latest OU/Hans Rosling Co-Pro Has (Almost) Arrived…
To tie in with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals summit later this week, the OU teamed up with production company Wingspan Productions and data raconteur Professor Hans Rosling to produce a second “Don’t Panic” lecture performance that airs on BBC2…
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Writing Each Row of a Spreadsheet as a Press Release?
A few days ago, I saw via the @HSCICOpenData Twitter feed that an annually released dataset on Written Complaints in the NHS”> has just been published. The data comes in the form of a couple of spreadsheets in which each…
Open Data For Transparency – Contract Compliance?
Doing a tab sweep just now, I came across a post describing a Policy note issued on contracts and compliance with transparency principles by the Crown Commercial Service [Procurement Policy Note – Increasing the Transparency of Contract Information to the…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Saving money, Transparency Tagged with: compliance, contract compliance, open data, Tony Hirst, Transparency
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
FOI and Communications Data
Last week, the UK Gov announced an Independent Commission on Freedom of Information (written statement) to consider: whether there is an appropriate public interest balance between transparency, accountability and the need for sensitive information to have robust protection whether the…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: FOI, information, MySociety, open data, Tony Hirst, Transparency, WhatDoTheyKnow
A Couple of Interesting Interactive Data Storytelling Devices
A couple of interesting devices for trying to engage folk in a data mediated story. First up, a chart that is reminiscent in feel to Hans Rosling’s ignorance test, in which (if you aren’t familiar with it) audiences are asked…
Posted in Data Journalism, Journalism, Posts from feeds, Visualising data Tagged with: Data Journalism, Data stories, drawing, Hans Rosling, immersive stories, OUseful, story, Storymap, Tony Hirst