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Style.ONS gets new home on ONS Service Manual

  • Amelia Nilan
  • June 16, 2023
Categories: Content design

For the past eight years, style.ons.gov.uk has been home to the house style and web standards for the Office for…

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Designing the Census 2021 dictionary: a content designer’s story

  • Sue Donovan
  • May 17, 2023
Categories: Census, Content design

Lessons from designing the Census 2021 dictionary and the benefits of working with a content designer at the start of…

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Semi-automation and Census 2021: how we told 331 local stories in one go

  • Daniel Wainwright
  • January 27, 2023
Categories: Census, Data, design, visual.ONS

Our semi-automated articles on “how your area has changed in 10 years” quite literally brought Census 2021 home.  This built…

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How to make a Census 2021 data profile for your local area

  • Ahmad Barclay
  • January 17, 2023
Categories: beta, Census, Data, dataviz, frontend

Build a custom area profile is a simple tool that allows you to create a Census 2021 data profile covering…

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Census maps: Explore, download and share data down to a neighbourhood level

  • Ahmad Barclay
  • November 2, 2022
Categories: Data
Example of neighbourhood level mapping in Census maps

Our new Census maps interactive tool lets you explore Census 2021 data across England and Wales right down to a…

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Searching inside datasets

  • Andrew Fergusson
  • July 12, 2022
Categories: beta, Data, Integrated Data Programme, Search

This post was written by Robin Gower of Swirrl about our work on the Integrated Data Programme. How can we…

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csvcubed: a new tool for creating CSVWs

  • Andrew Fergusson
  • May 24, 2022
Categories: Data

A little over a year ago Rob Barry, a Technical Lead in ONS’ Integrated Data Service (IDS), talked about how…

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A week in the life of a census content designer

  • Jessica Green
  • May 13, 2022
Categories: accessibility, blog, Census, Communications, Content design, Data, design, Editorial, people, publishing, User experience, user-research

Earlier this year, I shadowed two senior content designers bringing Census 2021 to life. In the world of census, nothing…

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Data visualisation producers – where are they now?

  • Henry Lau
  • March 16, 2022
Categories: Data

The ONS Digital Content team is currently recruiting data visualisation producers. You can view the adverts for the senior data…

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50 years on: are our digital releases more user-friendly than their print predecessors?

  • Jessica Green
  • March 8, 2022
Categories: accessibility, blog, Content design, design, Editorial, history, publishing, User experience, website
Economic Trends book cover

As an English literature graduate, I have always associated old, leather-bound books with great works of fiction. But when I…

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