Reinventing the Wheel
In 2010 the then-Prime Minister David Cameron launched the Measuring National Well-being (MNW) programme to “start measuring our progress as…
Read more Happy campers: Using machine learning to identify caravans in Zoopla data
Our Big Data team has published a report about collecting and using data from the property website Zoopla to identify…
Read moreGoodbye to old friends and hello to the new
As of 12 May 2017, the Neighbourhood Statistics and Data Explorer (beta) web services will close. The Neighbourhood Statistics website…
Read moreData Discovery – end of Alpha phase
Our Data Discovery Alpha is coming to an end in April. It is still possible to review the work we…
Read moreThe trouble with statistics
Reusers of open government data want simple, standard, easy to use data formats that allow rapid access to the relevant…
Read moreTry customising data in our new Alpha
We’ve been building an Alpha that will allow users to customise ONS data. Today we’re allowing our Alpha out into…
Read moreDescribing ONS datasets with standard vocabularies
Last week I published some open data publishing principles that can inform further development of the Data Discovery Alpha. This week I’ve begun turning those principles into actionable recommendations.
Read moreSome open data publishing principles
This week I’ve started working with the Digital Publishing team at the ONS. They’re currently hard at work on the Data Discovery Alpha exploring how to better support users in finding and accessing datasets.
Read moreThe ‘emotional’ side of data
The following blog post is written by Karen Gask, Data Scientist. Working in our Big Data team means working with…
Read moreIntroducing the Data Science Campus
[A guest post from David Johnson, Data Science Campus Start-up Manager] “[Better use of data] has the potential to transform…
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