Journey to the centre of the dataverse, chapter 3
In Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Axel and Professor Lidenbrock finish their preparation and complete their…
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In Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Axel is frightened about the journey ahead. That’s probably a…
Read moreBeta API: An introduction
As you may have already seen we recently launched our separate API and developer site in Beta. I wanted to…
Read moreJourney to the centre of the dataverse, chapter 1
This is the beginning of our journey to the centre of the dataverse, otherwise known as the Customise My Data…
Read moreReinventing 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 moreHappy 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…
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