London Ward Well-Being Scores – 2012 edition (Blog) October 16th, 2012 by Gareth Piggott These ward level well-being probability scores present a single combined measure of well-being indicators of the resident population based on 12 different indicators. Users can change the weighting of each indicator depending on how important they see each measure. Scores over 0 indicate a higher probability that the population on average will experience better well-being…
First Release of Census Data July 3rd, 2012 by Wil Tonkiss 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 number of males and females by five-year age band for local…
Free Data Visualisation Tool from the GLA June 27th, 2012 by Richard Fairchild 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 problems. With data becoming both more central to a wider variety of roles, and also much more widely…
Free London Mapping Tool from GLA May 23rd, 2012 by Gareth Piggott 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 create an instant map that can be copied over into Word…
Time of the Week: Ambulance Data from SafeStats.org.uk March 19th, 2012 by Stephen Forgan 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 work forms a key part of our efforts to support the open data agenda and encourage…
Using public data to tackle fuel poverty – can you help? March 13th, 2012 by Victoria Borwick 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 developmental delay in children, mental health problems and, for older people in particular, excess winter deaths. Fuel…
Street Crime Data from www.police.uk February 21st, 2012 by Stephen Forgan 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, developers and analysts. This work forms a key part of our efforts to support the open data agenda and encourage best possible use…