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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This blog-post is my take on the relatively new and partly-confusing (to me at least) world of infographics, visualisations, dashboards, and their role in story-telling using open data. Jump straight […]
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 […]
I noticed last week that the good folk at data.police.uk have recently introduced some new features in their API, in particular the ability to get street-level crime data for custom geographic […]
This week, the Department for Communities and Local Government has launched new data content, and important new features in its OpenDataCommunities service. The improvements are focused on three main areas: […]
I wanted to tell you about a new app I’ve developed which brings together various open data sources about the demography of parish councils and related local areas in England. […]
Thanks to a rainy bank holiday, I’ve been exploring Land Registry’s LinkedData service for its price-paid dataset, and wanted to share some thoughts on what I’ve found and done. Firstly, […]
Have you heard about Neighbourhood Planning? It is a new way for communities to decide the future of the places where they live and work. They will be able to: […]
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