SpeedData: Matthew Somerville
We’ve already heard from Matthew Somerville of MySociety, who has introduced us to some of the websites that he has been involved in. These include: Mapumental, which is a site where house prices and travel information feed into an interactive map. A map rating places on how scenic they are He also metioned a site [...]
So how generous is Ordnance Survey OpenData?
At the beginning of this month (apologies, we’re a bit late) the Government announced that much of the mapping data held by the Ordnance Survey would be released free to the public.
The gritty truth about data and mapping
How maps and open data can be used to help people learn more about gritting routes in their area
Mapping road death data
The BBC recently undertook a web project to make road death accidents “relevant to people” during a week’s coverage. Deaths were plotted on a map and searchable by postcode with links to the relevant news article. You can see and interact with the map on the BBC website here. The way the data is presented [...]
Making climate change visible
Following the confused and convoluted arguments surrounding the climate change summit in Copenhagen last week, a number of journalists have tried to find a way of coherently presenting the arguments for and against scepticism about climate change. David Candless writes on the Guardian Datablog there is little online to explain the arguments to people who [...]
Hackitude gets down and dirty with data
Over the weekend a small tremour was felt across Birmingham. The distinct rumble was caused by a group of web developers, data hackers and HTML magicians who had gathered to do something wonderful – and the result was explosive. Held at the Aquila TV studios, Birmingham, Hackitude took place from Friday 11 to Sunday 13 [...]
Rounding up a team of local data enthusiasts
Will Perrin from Talk About Local in a recent blogpost has said he’d like to get together a number of people who are interested in opening up local government data for creative use. This group will meet-up with a government team looking into stimulating application of local government data sets. He invites those who want [...]
Periodic table of data visualisation methods
Stuck for a way to visualise a set of data? This periodic table of methods is sure to throw something up which you might be able to apply to your data set. Move your cursor over an element to see the visualisation. Error: Embedded data could not be displayed.
