The UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows 2017-2019 talk about their research and developing impact. The Data Impact Fellows programme is designed to support the use of UK Data Service data and resources by new generations of scholars through the research partnerships they develop and the students they teach through out their careers. Hear more about their role as #DataImpactFellows.
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have been recently doing work on question design and gauging the effect of asking questions on topics such as Gender identity, Sexual orientation and Armed forces community.
The UK Data Service hosted a panel session and networking event on 13 October 2016 at the Lighthouse in Glasgow. A panel comprising some of Scotland’s leading data innovators explored data re-use in policy and research, sharing their experiences of demonstrating data enhanced impact. Here are the highlights of #DataImpact2016.
With Storify closing in May 2018, we’ll be extracting the html from some of our lovely storifys and saving them on the blog. Here are the highlights of #DataImpact2015.
Oliver Duke-Williams, Senior Lecturer in Digital Information Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCL and Co-Investigator at the UK Daya Service updates us on proposed new uses for administrative data in place of censuses in the area of estomates of journeys to work.
Sanah Yousaf, one of our interns talks about how she approached the task of learning R.
Amy Bonsall, one of our interns talks about how she approached the task of working out how to calculate Townsend scores and then of finding others work to compare against as a way to quality assure the methodology.
Amy Bonsall one of our interns talks about what deprivation is and how it could be calculated.
We’ve been lucky enough to have two interns come and work with us over the summer. They have been working on creating a set of Townsend Deprivation scores, using the UK 2011 Census data we have available via InFuse.