At the Job Hack, held at Digital Catapult on Monday 19 October, teams were challenged to come up with new ideas so that young people can get access to the training and employment opportunities they need to succeed. Here is …
England Indices of deprivation data available as 5* Linked Data The Department for Communities and Local Government has released the English indices of deprivation 2015 in linked data format on the OpenDataCommunities platform. Full details are available in the blog …
Introduction On 19 October 2015, the Cabinet Office will host the UK’s first ever Job Hack at the Digital Catapult in London. Thanks for joining us! Part of the government’s commitment to ending long-term youth unemployment, the event will bring …
As the scale of data published on data.gov.uk increases, publishers often need to manage hundreds of datasets. As a result of this we've gradually added different reports to help them stay abreast. And of course these are all open to …
Last week we had a blitz of tidying the data.gov.uk catalogue, focussing on data in time series. We've not been happy for a while that data that is released as monthly updates is sometimes added to data.gov.uk as separate datasets. …
We have formed a new data group in GDS to support a cross-Government Data Programme. The aim of this is to transform how government uses data to drive benefits to citizens: supporting better decision making, digital services, opening data to …
On the 26th February the Crown Commercial Service launched an updated version of its Contracts Finder website. As well as greatly improving how the site works and looks, it also enhanced the quality of data it captures and provides to …
Almost a year ago, I blogged "Every Forward Step is Progress" just prior to the launch of the Local Authority (LA) Incentive Scheme. The scheme was allocated funding (£721,360) from the Cabinet Office’s Release of Data Fund (RoDF) to support the first …
The media has been consistently full of stories in recent months and years focussed on the fluctuating price of energy – whether it be diesel for our haulage industry or gas and electricity for our homes, the cost of these …
How you can help Open Addresses build an Open National Address Dataset openaddressesuk.org allows you to submit any number of addresses to help build an Open National Address Dataset. Please contribute, even if only to add your own address and …
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