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Using free tools to survey community groups and then perhaps combining that...
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The value of data, a tale of Birmingham parking tickets.
Through the Help Me Investigate site , I came across an investigation regarding parking tickets, with the aim to find the most ticketed street in Birmingham in FY09. It sounded interesting, and I was...
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Visualising data for a transparent government
Have you seen the big blue bubbles on pages in the Guardian, a wordle of President Obama’s inauguration speech, or a Googlemap of all the roadworks in your area? Presenting data in new and interesting...
View ArticleLocal data and the Data.gov.uk site
In January the data.gov.uk site was launched at an event at the Guardian’s headquarters in London. For the unitiated, this site is the government’s attemp, under the guidance of World Wide Web inventor...
View ArticleOpen Data in Lincoln
Andrew Beeken has blogged on how he set up a very simple WordPress blog to start the process of opening up data at Lincoln. As he explains, he’s going to be publicising it in Lincoln and will report...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Data Visualisation Tools for Community Groups
Whether you are collecting your own information or downloading open data sets to use, often what you end up with is a spreadsheet full of numbers. Unless you know what you are looking for these can...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Using free tools to survey community groups and then perhaps combining that...
A few weeks ago we were working with Birmingham Open Spaces Forum to look at how they were collecting data and introduced them to Google Forms. Recently we returned to see how they were getting on and...
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