Celia Russell, the UK Data Service’s International Data Specialist discusses the first population census in Myanmar for thirty years.
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Evidence-based social policy depends on access to rich supplies of high-quality data. But how can we create, curate, enrich and reuse data already collected by government departments and researchers? James Nazroo and Matthew Woollard of the UK Data Service explore the network of trust and expertise that ensures a cost-effective pipeline of productive, policy-relevant data.
We’re all things technical! Fiona Cameron, Application Developer at the UK Data Service, discusses exciting developments from the Architecture Task Force sessions at the Statistical Information System Collaboration Community (SIS-CC) Annual Workshop in Paris.
Rob Dymond-Green (Technical Co-ordinator for the Census Support Service) at the UK Data Service, continues his discussion of new ways of presenting the Service’s data collections. In this post Rob continues this theme, moving onto exploring the temporal nature of the studies.
Rob Dymond-Green (Technical Co-ordinator for the Census Support Service) at the UK Data Service discusses new ways of presenting the Service’s data collections.
Ralph Cochrane of AppChallenge.net introduces the Innovation Fund project focused on opening more UK Data Service data and the AppChallenge.
Louise Corti of the UK Data Service gives an update on the latest developments with our Innovation Fund partners, four exciting projects to create an open data and crowdsourcing project to generate innovative apps, a library of interactive tools to allow users/owners to create their own infographics, a Risk Utility Management Tool designed to take the mystery out of how confidential data are anonymised and an open-source census data extraction and visualisation tool.
Lucy Bell and Louise Corti of the UK Data Service give an update on the latest developments with open data at the UK Data Service. So much exciting data is now open, with more to follow.
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the UK Data Service provides unified access to an extensive and expanding range of high-quality, international social, economic and population data – from UK Censuses to government-funded surveys, longitudinal studies and qualitative data.