Making social media accessible
What is accessibility? Here is a lovely definition of accessibility from Carnegie Mellon University: “Accessibility is the degree to which…
Read more on Making social media accessible Journey to the centre of the dataverse, chapter 1
This is the beginning of our journey to the centre of the dataverse, otherwise known as the Customise My Data…
Read more on Journey to the centre of the dataverse, chapter 1Reinventing 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 more on Reinventing the WheelHappy campers: Using machine learning to identify caravans in Zoopla data
Our Big Data team has published a report about collecting and using data from the property website Zoopla to identify…
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Application programming interfaces (APIs) are important. They are an integral part of what makes the web work as, well, a…
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I’ve been with the ONS coming on 4 years now, and if there is one topic of conversation that can…
Read more on All about imageGoodbye to old friends and hello to the new
As of 12 May 2017, the Neighbourhood Statistics and Data Explorer (beta) web services will close. The Neighbourhood Statistics website…
Read more on Goodbye to old friends and hello to the newData Discovery – end of Alpha phase
Our Data Discovery Alpha is coming to an end in April. It is still possible to review the work we…
Read more on Data Discovery – end of Alpha phaseRunning the Data Discovery end-of-Alpha retro
A few weeks ago I facilitated our big end-of-Alpha retro for our Data Discovery project and I thought I’d share…
Read more on Running the Data Discovery end-of-Alpha retroSprint note: 15-28 March 2017
Our latest sprint was the final one of the Data Discovery Alpha and included significant updates to the latest iteration of our…
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