Posts Tagged ‘ United Kingdom ’

Timeline of Statistics

March 22, 2014
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Timeline of Statistics

getstats In 2010 the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) launched the getstats campaign in order to bring statistics to various groups like …Continue reading →

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Timeline of Statistics

March 22, 2014
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Timeline of Statistics

getstats In 2010 the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) launched the getstats campaign in order to bring statistics to various groups like …Continue reading →

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Discussing Official Statistics and Open Data in UK

August 3, 2013
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Discussing Official Statistics and Open Data in UK

Committees discussing official statistics In UK te committees of the House of Commons and the House of Lords  examine various issues …Continue reading »

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Infographics and ISOTYPE and NSIs

June 19, 2013
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Infographics and ISOTYPE and NSIs

ISOTYPE Good infographics for statistical matters do not only need diagrams (like histograms or bar charts) but also lots of …Continue reading »

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Evidence-based Decision Making

November 11, 2012
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Evidence-based Decision Making

iPads (or any easily accessible device) with a dashboard application on it become more and more used tools (or Gadgets) for …Continue reading »

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LOGSD

September 17, 2012
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LOGSD

Curious about abbreviations? Here’s (a new) one: Linked Open Government Statistical Data LOGSD. LOGSD are statistical data official statistics agencies …Continue reading »

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Open Government Data Benchmark: FR, UK, USA

July 15, 2012
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Open Government Data Benchmark: FR, UK, USA

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

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OGD events

July 1, 2012
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OGD events

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

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HTML5: Flow map of internal migration in England & Wales

May 11, 2012
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HTML5: Flow map of internal migration in England & Wales

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

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Official Statistics: Identify Common Challenges

March 25, 2012
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Official Statistics: Identify Common Challenges

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

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