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.
On 17 October the UK Data Service ran an event at The Studio in Manchester focused on opportunities and challenges for professionals working with administrative, monitoring or evaluation data in civil society organisations (CSO).
We’re delighted to introduce the first two social science papers that have been recently published in the social sciences section of the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (RDJ).
In this post James and Louise introduce us to the world of developing an innovative chatbot for answering research data management queries.