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 […]
Category Archives: APIs
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 […]
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 […]
New Build Property sales and Flood Risk/Warning areas
Two interesting developments in the open and LinkedData worlds have grabbed my attention in past couple of months. In February, the Floodhack event generated lots of great ideas for new apps to […]
Exploring what Local Authorities do for you
This article outlines some new open, re-usable LinkedData datasets hosted from OpenDataCommunities and a basic application for you to explore services provided by Local Authorities. I’ll start with a caveat and a […]
Is it worth where you live?
Just before Christmas the Council of Mortgage Lenders published some interesting new data on outstanding residential mortgage lending by postcode sector. Thank you and well done to CML and […]
Exploring local crimes – part 2
I thought you would be interested in some new features that I’ve just introduced in my local crimes demonstrator. They are: A map legend, showing the range of total crimes […]
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