Data Impact blog

Are experiences of poor quality parenting in childhood associated with cancer risk at older ages?

• 9 August 2018

Panos Demakakos from UCL explores how childhood upbringing is related to health issues in later life.…

Analysing Food Hygiene Rating Scores in R: a guide

• 6 August 2018

Rachel Oldroyd, one of the UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows, takes a step-by-step approach to using R and RStudio to analyse Food Hygiene Rating Scores.…

Mapping divorce and religion in the Czech Republic

• 2 August 2018

Klara Valentova explores mapping data from her home country.…

Mapping the census – connections between language ability and health

Rabia Butt uses mapping to explore possible connections between health conditions and fluency in English.…

Why is a PhD Researcher like an Entrepreneur?

Our Data Impact Fellows are at an early part of their research career. We wondered how that feels for them. Aishah Selamat has her own interesting take.…

Mapping gender in Pakistan

• 1 August 2018

Rabia Butt explores mapping data from her home country.…

Mapping annual net income in the UK

• 31 July 2018

Klara Valentova has been exploring mapping of data.…

Who’s left? Are schools gaming the league tables through ‘off-rolling’?

• 30 July 2018

Philip Nye from FFT Education Datalab explores how some schools are gaming the system through ‘off-rolling’, using the National Pupil Database.…

How can we ensure the value and impact of data?

• 27 July 2018

Deirdre Appel from Open Data Watch explores the data value chain and how it can support the impact of data.…