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This blog is now archived
This blog is no longer being updated. If you're interested in how we're using performance analysis and data science in government, read about it on the cross-government data blog.
INSPIRE Benefits for Publishers
There are more than 4 000 INSPIRE datasets now published on data.gov.uk. This provides a huge opportunity for spatial data users to start reaping the benefits of INSPIRE. However benefits are not solely enjoyed by data users. Publishers of INSPIRE data, …
Introducing the Hampshire Hub
If you’ve not heard of the ‘Hampshire Hub’ before, it’s a collaboration between many public sector organisations working in and round Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. It is developing smarter and more open ways of sharing data and insights …
Open Data, a vision from Leeds
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The Ambition Leeds is a fabulous city and has the ambition to be the best city in the UK. What makes this city great are the people and the communities they create. Leeds sits at the centre of a City …
Open data: Make it relevant, make it local, make it together
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This post is a short introduction to new, innovative open data services from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), Local Government Association (LGA), and the Hampshire Hub Partnership. They are: ? DCLG’s OpenDataCommunities LinkedData publishing and …
Exploring what Local Authorities do for you
This article outlines some new open, re-usable LinkedData datasets hosted from OpenDataCommunities and a basic application for you to explore services provided by Local Authorities. I’ll start with a caveat and a “thank you”. The caveat: the datasets are our first attempt at developing …
Of open data case studies and time machines…
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“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.” Samuel S. Wilks In an address to the American Statistical Association in 1951, Samuel Wilks paraphrased a passage from H.G. Wells’s book, …
Transparency and Open data: Looking forward
As this is my first blog post on data.gov.uk (indeed, my very first blog post anywhere, ever), I should probably start by introducing myself. I’m Ollie Buckley, and since December last year, I’ve been leading the Transparency Team in the …
New UK Location Metadata Editor Coming Soon!
In spring we will be launching a new online UK Location Metadata Editor making it easier for location data publishers to create, edit and validate INSPIRE compliant GEMINI 2 metadata records. The new editor is being delivered by EDINA and will be …
Social investment data - telling the story
Transparency is a vital tool in delivering social impact. Greater transparency in the social investment market will help more social ventures get access to the capital they need to grow, and help socially minded investors deploy their funds to greatest …
My certificate in open data...
Good morning everybody “So why are you here?” we were all asked, at the start of a fantastic week on the ‘Open Data in Practice’ course at the Open Data Institute (ODI). “I want to know my open data unknowns, …
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