Rising to the challenge of communicating statistics to the wider public
As Visual.ONS closes down and moves to the main ONS website, we wanted to reflect on the challenges we’ve faced…
Read moreThree years of Visual.ONS – what we’ve learned
Visual.ONS is coming out of Beta and we’re moving home
In January 2015 we launched a Beta called Visual.ONS – a companion website to help us learn how better to…
Read moreHow to customise an embedded interactive
The 2017 Family Spending data was released today. For the past three years the bulletin has been accompanied by an…
Read moreReusable visualisation
You may have seen in June last year we asked people to draw the rest of the line, for several charts,…
Read moreA week in a newsroom
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 moreSo long and thanks for all the stats!
One of the founder members of the visual.ONS team has moved on to pastures new. Hannah Thomas has been an integral part of the team, which has pushed the boundaries of data visualisation. Here she writes about her time at ONS. We will miss you StatsHan!
Read moreA year in the life of Digital Publishing
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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.
Read moreONS doing the Monster (data)Mash…five facts about Halloween
From Hannah Thomas, Editorial and Lauren Bradford, Social Media Every now and then it is good to have a bit…
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