getstats In 2010 the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) launched the getstats campaign in order to bring statistics to various groups like …Continue reading →
Finally there’s a very interesting comparison of OGD in three leading countries. qunb did it . Have a look at this presentation. 1) There are lots of duplicates on OGD platforms . 2) There are very few structured data yet . . 3) Apps are the real challenge There are different strategies fostering the developmemt …Read More
There’s a lot of activities in the realm of Open Government Data OGD in the past few days. opendata.ch In Switzerland the second opendata.ch event was held in Zürich on 28 June (agenda and documents in German). Presentations from Rufus Pollock and Nigel Shadbolt (in English) will be available on opendata.ch. Zürich used opendata.ch 2012 …Read More
At the start of this year, I wrote a brief post on how we’ve been looking closely at the emergence of HTML5 as a visualisation platform. This week, we’ve published the first fruit of those labours – an interactive flow map of internal migration data for England & Wales: The aim here was to really …Read More
In his Blog Director Groves of the US Census Bureau informs about an important discussion among his colleagues (thanks Xavier for this hint): ‘Several weeks ago, at the initiative of Brian Pink, the Australian statistician, leaders of the government statistical agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States held a summit …Read More