ONS Digital

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.

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Graphical Web 2016

• Rob Fry
• November 15, 2016

Categories: dataviz, publishing

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Graphical Web 2016, a festival of graphics, data and general geekery hosted…

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The ONS Design Community of Practice

• ONS Digital
• October 14, 2016

Categories: blog, dataviz, design

The following blog post is written by Rhodri Griffith, Creative Design Lead. Do it like a designer Late last year…

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Should tables be off the table?

• ONS Digital
• September 1, 2016

Categories: dataviz, publishing

We’re in an art gallery…… but there are no paintings on the walls. The paintings are just described to us….

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Marriages – when two become one

• Rob Fry
• August 26, 2016

Categories: dataviz, Editorial, infographics, insight, publishing

We’ve published 2 new pieces on Visual.ONS today that push our beta site into new storytelling and data visualisation territory….

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In a relationship – it’s complicated

• Rob Fry
• August 3, 2016

Categories: dataviz

A strategy for choosing the right chart. So far we’ve covered a lot of charting tips about using your axes…

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Does the axis have to start at zero? (Part 2 – bar charts)

• ONS Digital
• July 23, 2016

Categories: dataviz

I recently wrote a blog post about axes on line charts starting at non-zero values. However, bar charts are a…

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Does the axis have to start at zero? (Part 1 – line charts)

• ONS Digital
• June 27, 2016

Categories: dataviz

At the risk of ruffling a few data vis feathers … no? But there are often occasions when it should….

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Use your y-axis

• Rob Fry
• June 7, 2016

Categories: dataviz

…to its full potential Last year we launched a data visualisation best practice section on Style.ONS.gov.uk. In an effort to…

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The big end of year Digital Content wrap up [Part 2]

• Rob Fry
• December 31, 2015

Categories: blog, dataviz

Welcome back! In part 1 we took a look at Visual.ONS (this year’s biggest highlight for our team) and how it related…

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