OpenPlaques: an experiment
Hi, Inspired by Jamie Whyte and other Club Open Data friends, I’ve been playing with the crowd-sourced open dataset of commemorative plaques in the UK. I’ve taken my lead from Jez […]
Local Election Results explorer
With all the fuss around the EU Referendum, its easy to forget (but important to remember) that Local Government is a key part of our democratic fabric. Remember those […]
Open Data: Goin’ local, down in….wherever you live….
This post introduces my new demonstration “Local Data Discovery” dashboard, explaining my rationale and motivation for developing it. I had the pleasure of attending an event on 24 March hosted by […]
Visualising statistics on energy performance of buildings
This blog post introduces: Some new experimental statistics from DCLG on energy performance of buildings, and My demonstration application to interrogate and visualise a sample of the 5-star LinkedData outputs we have just […]
Playing with Fire…incidents data. An open data experiment
Following the Blue light camp earlier this month, I’ve been playing with some interesting data on incidents attended by West Midlands Fire Service. The raw data comprises a list of […]
Open Data from the Department for Communities and Local Government: have it your way
Introducing the new OpenDataCommunities Geography Selector We have been busy here at DCLG progressively releasing more fully open, accessible data via OpenDataCommunities. In recent months, we have published: Experimental data on […]
Unlocking local data: Allotments – a comparision
You’ll have seen from previous blog posts that I’ve been messing around with data from the Greater Manchester Data Synchronisation Programme, and Leeds Data Mill. As both sites have published […]
First Signs (For Me) of Linked Data Being Properly Linked…?!
Originally posted on OUseful.Info, the blog…:
As anyone who’s followed this blog for some time will know, my relationship with Linked Data has been an off and on again…
Deprivation in Leeds – another open data example
Linked to my previous post, here’s another example of the power and potential of blending multiple open data sources about specific localities. This one is inspired by Alasdair Rae’s interesting […]
Trouble at Mill? Not this one…
You may have already spotted some great work in Leeds to bring together and unlock data from multiple organisations via the Leeds Data Mill. This echoes similar initiatives elsewhere in […]
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