A while ago, I mentioned that I wanted to get some school pupils together with some data analysts to see if we could organise a ‘data day’. The good news is that (with the kind help of Deloittes and the London Borough of Barnet) we did it a few months ago (it was picked up [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Visualisations’
Why would school pupils want to mix data up?
Firstly, a big thank-you to everyone who commented on the previous posting here on local data sources. Aside from the comments, I’ve been given loads of really useful pointers via email and Twitter, some of which I’ll acknowledge here, and some will come in subsequent posts. But here’s an overarching question to start with: If [...]
Finding all of the interesting data within one local authority area
A while ago, I posted here giving reasons why I thought it would be a good idea to start involving school pupils in the processing of public data. There are strong democratic arguments for doing this – ones that aren’t immediately obvious. There are also good ‘transparency’ arguments (but I’d make my usual point here [...]
Data, visualisation and the talking cure for local government
Toby Blume – my co-host of the session on data visualisation at Local Gov Camp (last Saturday in Birmingham) – has posted his observations from the session here. In addition, Nick Booth has been busy with two posts on the subject. A few standout quotes: Firstly, here’s Nick: “…there’s a false expectation that visualising data [...]
Local Gov Camp session on what data visualisation is for
I spent Saturday at Local Government Camp in Birmingham – there’ll be at least one post along here shortly based on things I learned there. But this one is here to host the slides I used at the start of the conversation (sorry – Slideshare is being a complete pain today and I can’t embed [...]
Three signposts off
I’ve started drafting three articles in the last 24 hours for this blog only to find a better one on the same subject written by someone else. Firstly, it’s a regular theme here that data visualisations are a huge opportunity for us all because they allow us to break the monopoly that civil servants, sloppy [...]
Using a weblog crowdsource intelligence
I’ve been working with Mick Fealty over at the Northern Ireland political weblog Slugger O’Toole on a bit of an experiment. We decided to try and convene some free consultancy for all of the political parties in Northern Ireland – starting with the ruling (!) bloc, the DUP. As with all political weblogs that host [...]
UK Data website launched
No time to post much here today apart from to point to the new UK government data website – www.data.gov.uk – as described here. There are plenty of data sets that allow you to browse geographical data and find out different information about local schools and other services. There’s also a good section in which [...]
A feast of infographics
As I’ve spent a lot of time recently banging on about visual representations of policy issues, this post on the GOOD website is something of a feast.