Content lessons from across the Civil Service
This month, myself and the rest of the Editorial team attended a content meet-up that ONS joint-hosted with the Intellectual…
Read more on Content lessons from across the Civil Service Email Templates
We’ve been using GovDelivery as an email publishing platform for a while now. You can find out more about the…
Read more on Email TemplatesPresenting data in context
I recently introduce a number of principles that could guide how (open) data is published by the ONS. The fourth…
Read more on Presenting data in contextEnd to end alpha
This is a post about our ongoing data discovery project As a recap, this service is about allowing our users…
Read more on End to end alphaSprint note: 18-31 Jan 2017
This sprint was a bit of a counter to the last sprint with a wider focus and more smaller developments, rather…
Read more on Sprint note: 18-31 Jan 2017The humble pie chart
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.
Read more on The humble pie chartSprintnote: 4-17 Jan 2017
Our first sprint of 2017 saw us hit a really important milestone with the Data Discovery Alpha. As mentioned in previous posts we have been aiming to get a ‘thin slice’ up and running to prove the concept of what we are doing and give us a base to build upon. In this case the slice we have been aiming for takes us from loading a CSV file (containing the stats) through to making a selection from the dataset dimensions on the website and downloading this customised data.
Read more on Sprintnote: 4-17 Jan 2017Sprintnote: 13 December 2016
In the pre-Christmas rush it seems I failed to actually press the publish button on this. Still, better late than never…
Read more on Sprintnote: 13 December 2016Enabling users to customise datasets
We are now in full swing with the Data Discovery alpha project. You can read a bit more about how our inception stage went and get an intro to the project by reading my blog post Getting started with Data Discovery.
Read more on Enabling users to customise datasetsDescribing 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.
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