Data.gov.uk team getting involved with the community

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We’re really passionate about our work here at data.gov.uk, and as part of our program to ensure we’re bringing the community the services and data you want, we spend some time finding interesting events and conferences to spread the open data message to, and highlight how we can help with the open data government is …

New site changes

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Over the last couple of weeks we have continued enhancing the usability of data.gov.uk, based on the feedback you have been sending us. In particular you can now view the range of datasets available on the site (now over 3,000) via a tag cloud at data.gov.uk/data; allowing you to quickly see the variety of subject …

May local election results available as open data

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One of the Panel's members, Chris Taggart of OpenlyLocal.com, has been working hard on a new project to make May local election results available as open data. The Open Election project offers an opportunity to substantially enhance public access to local election results data, allowing it to be easily identified and reused within a variety …

Local Public Data Panel

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As well as the significant drive to open up public data nationally and reference datasets on data.gov.uk work is also underway to provide access to local data. A range of organisations including the NHS, education authorities and local councils currently collect large amount of data which can be opened up. As part of the ‘Smarter …