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How can we explain levels of happiness and well-being of Londoners?
8TH MAY 2013
Unemployment, poor health, loneliness, and poor access to housing – are these the reasons why Londoners have lower well-being?
London Ward Well-Being Scores - 2012 edition (Blog)
16TH OCTOBER 2012
These ward level well-being probability scores present a single combined measure of well-being indicators of the resident population based on 12 ...
First Release of Census Data
3RD JULY 2012
The ONS will release the first data from the 2011 Census on Monday 16th July at 11am. The data will include an estimate of the number of males and females by single-year of age for England and Wales and and an estimate of the ...
Free Data Visualisation Tool from the GLA
27TH JUNE 2012
Do you have different datasets for which you'd like to get an overall idea of what they’re telling you but don’t have the time or Excel skills to do it? The Multi-Dataset Index Tool will solve your ...
Free London Mapping Tool from GLA
23RD MAY 2012
Have you ever wanted to create a quick thematic map of London but lacked the GIS skills or software to do it yourself?
The GLA Intelligence Unit have created some free mapping tools that allow the user to input their own borough data to ...
Time of the Week: Ambulance Data from SafeStats.org.uk
19TH MARCH 2012
The Strategic Crime Analysis Team (SCAn), in the GLA Intelligence Unit uncover new sources of data about violent crime (often unreported to the police), so to make it more accessible and useable for local services, developers and analysts. This ...
Using public data to tackle fuel poverty - can you help?
13TH MARCH 2012
Fuel poverty affects 560,000 households in London. In those households, people struggle to heat their homes adequately and as a result many thousands of people live in cold homes which put them at risk of serious ill-health, educational ...
Street Crime Data from www.police.uk
21ST FEBRUARY 2012
Analysis by Stephen Forgan The Strategic Crime Analysis Team (SCAn) in the GLA Intelligence Unit have been looking at ways to make data on www.police.uk more accessible and useable for local services, ...
How London Black Cabbie are using Social Media and Data to improve their own performance
22ND NOVEMBER 2011
You all know that Black Cab Drivers have a lot to say for themselves, right? Well, a private Twitter account has been giving drivers the chance to tell each other what is going on around the Capital, and has helped turn an idea hatched by ...
Measuring Happiness and Well-being
8TH NOVEMBER 2011
In November 2010, the Prime Minister asked the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to develop measures of general well-being ...
