Charting the Alpha
Guest post from Martin Coulthurst, chief chart-builder and map-maker for the Alpha project.. The Alpha website features interactive, responsive charts…
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Working on a project with a mix of in-house staff, individual contractors, an embedded team from an external supplier and…
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From the very start of this project one of the things we wanted to do is make the statistics themselves…
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I have recently been reading ‘How Google Works’ by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg. It is an interesting book for…
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Today, December 8th, the Office for National Statistics had unveiled a prototype for a future ONS website. This website is…
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The Autumn Statement happened today and obviously featured a lot of our statistics. Here’s a sense of the volume of…
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I like this letter – iota – as in I don’t have an iota of doubt that it has been…
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Wow. What a week. So for most of the week the ‘alpha’ team relocated to London to a mix of…
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Unfortunately last weeks weeknote was a washout due to a combination of illness and workload but as it happens it…
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A while ago I presented at a gov statsy thing in Leeds and bumped into Gregor Boyd who’s a statistician…
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