What we’ve learnt about building a publishing platform
We’ve written in the past about our decision to build our own publishing platform, and the pros and cons that…
Read more on What we’ve learnt about building a publishing platformThe humble pie chart: part2
The principles and guidelines from part1 showed what data best suited a pie chart, solutions for labelling and using colour….
Read more on The humble pie chart: part2Content 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 ServiceEmail 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 2016