This has been another busy week: three days with The Data Lab at the ‘day job’ and a mix of stuff over the other four. The Data Lab’s Data Fest 2019 programme, including the Fringe events in Aberdeen are all
Digging down into Local Data – Openly Local, Democratic Dashboard and more
Have you seen Democratic Dashboard? You really should take a look. This site, set up by the Democratic Audit based in the LSE, has one simple aim: ” … to promote engagement in the electoral process by making an array
Facts Are Sacred – a review
Facts are Sacred is the new book by Simon Rogers, the award-wining editor of guardian.co.uk/data and a news editor on the Guardian, working with the graphics team to bring figures to life on the page. He was closely involved with
Webteam Survey 2011 – The – Graphs Part 2 of 3
This is the second part of an article, which begins here. The scatterplot diagram below shows the same data as in part one of this article but with the data for Essex removed for ease of plotting. Doing so means
Webteam Survey 2011 – The Graphs – Part 3 of 3
This is the third part of an article that starts here, and continues here. The Scatterplot diagram below shows only the data for the Aberdeen City Council and its six comparator councils. These were chosen as they are local authorities
Webteam Survey 2011 The Graphs Part 1 of 3
In late Summer 2011 I carried out a survey of webteams in local authorities in the UK. This survey looked, amongst other things, at the size and composition of the webteam, their location, how big the organisation is, the size