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How to customise an embedded interactive

ONS Digital
January 18, 2018

Categories: Data, dataviz, visual.ONS

The 2017 Family Spending data was released today. For the past three years the bulletin has been accompanied by an…

Reusable visualisation

John Nixon
January 16, 2018

Categories: dataviz, design, visual.ONS

You may have seen in June last year we asked people to draw the rest of the line, for several charts,…

Are you a user of flow of fund data? What interactive features are helpful in your work?

ONS Digital
November 17, 2017

Categories: Data, dataviz, user-research, website

New flow of funds data was published this morning. Alongside the main release are four interactive products which each look…

Stacking the bars in your favour!

ONS Digital
August 17, 2017

Categories: Data, dataviz, design

A stacked bar chart does much the same job as a regular or clustered bar chart in that it enables…

Reinventing the Wheel

Tom Davy
July 6, 2017

Categories: accessibility, Data, dataviz, design, visual.ONS

In 2010 the then-Prime Minister David Cameron launched the Measuring National Well-being (MNW) programme to “start measuring our progress as…

The humble pie chart: part2

John Nixon
February 28, 2017

Categories: dataviz, infographics

The principles and guidelines from part1 showed what data best suited a pie chart, solutions for labelling and using colour….

The humble pie chart

John Nixon
January 26, 2017

Categories: dataviz, infographics

A blog on pie charts? surely everyone knows how to use them. Just googling “pie charts” and hitting the “images tab” in a browser gives us a fair indication… people in general don’t, and the results are worryingly bad.

A year in the life of Digital Publishing

Andrew Dudfield
December 29, 2016

Categories: accessibility, blog, Data Discovery, dataviz, design, opendata, publishing, roadmap, social media, visual.ONS, website

Well then. As is only right and normal at the end of a year, it is time to look back at a year in the life of Digital Publishing. It has been a big year for us here in ONS. We launched our new site in February. We also saw a bunch of people move on to new projects and recruited some very talented people to help us ensure we continue to improve everything we do.