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Public health impact: Health Survey for England informs public policy on obesity
In the first of a new series focusing on the impact of data use in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, Dr Jennifer Mindell, Reader in Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology &...
A spatial and temporal view of the UK Data Service’s catalogue (part 2)
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...
There need not be a digital dark age — how to save our data for the future
First seen in The Conversation, Matthew Woollard, Director of the UK Data Service, considers how much we are prepared to pay to ensure that digital stuff today is usable in the future.
Dogs that don’t bark in the night and other ways to measure international development
Celia Russell, the UK Data Service’s International Data Specialist discusses the development of the Sustainable Development Goals and their increased focus on community defined measures of developm...
A spatial and temporal view of the UK Data Service’s catalogue (part 1)
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.
Innovation Fund project: Open, linked data innovation
Ralph Cochrane of AppChallenge.net introduces the Innovation Fund project focused on opening more UK Data Service data and the AppChallenge.