The Year of Open Data December 19th, 2014 by Gareth Piggott By Zack Gardner The Year of Open Data The coming year will see open data strategy as a focal point for businesses and the public sector writes @urbantide. The emphasis will shift from how it is collected to how it is analysed and visualised with more tools becoming available to facilitate its effective use, To try…
Call for Contributions – help us deliver London’s City Data Ecosystem! December 5th, 2014 by Gareth Piggott By Dr Catherine Mulligan Call for Contributions – help us deliver London’s City Data Ecosystem! Future Cities Catapult, Imperial College and the GLA Datastore have teamed up to further develop London’s city data ecosystem. It is no news that the GLA datastore provides some of the most comprehensive city data sets to London’s citizens and developer…
London: The Open Data Capital November 25th, 2014 by Gareth Piggott By Dr James Cheshire Throughout London’s history, its data have inspired innovative maps and visualisations from the likes of John Snow, William Farr, Charles Booth and Florence Nightingale, all of whom were truly pioneering in their communication of complex datasets throughout the 19th Century. A more recent and less well-known contribution to their legacy is…
Taking the temperature of London businesses November 11th, 2014 by Gareth Piggott By Joel Marsden, Economist, Intelligence Unit, Greater London Authority As the autumn winds whip around City Hall to mark an abrupt end to the Indian summer, results from the London Business Survey (LBS) allow us to take the temperature of London businesses. They provide a unique insight into the issues affecting business owners and managers…
Industries that Can Benefit from Cloud and SAS October 30th, 2014 by DrewAHendricks In the digital era, cloud technology and Statistical Analysis Systems (SAS) are crucial for a number of industries. There’s a plethora of options, from niche companies such as Duetto Research that specialize in casinos and the hospitality industry, to major options such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Nearly every type of business can benefit from…
LDS II: the Next Step to a City Data Future October 22nd, 2014 by Andrew Collinge So London Datastore Mark II (LDS II) is here. The beads of sweat are still trickling down the brows of technical colleagues and our developers, DataPress. It is very largely thanks to them that you can enjoy this site’s technical splendour. As the team here at City Hall ploughed through intensive design stages towards launch,…
Access to High Speed Broadband October 11th, 2014 by The Internet is now considered the fourth utility and if we are to remain competitive in the global economy and bolster our reputation as the greatest city on earth we need to ensure every Londoner is able to access the very best digital connectivity Whilst London leads Europe in much of its broadband connectivity there…
Financial Exclusion October 10th, 2014 by Financial exclusion reinforces poverty and disadvantage, impacting the lives of individuals, their families and the wider community. Tonybey Hall has developed in-depth knowledge of the factors at household level, but also in the wider neighbourhood, including access to free ATMs. To help understand which areas to focus on, the GLA have been working with Toynbee…
The London Jigsaw App June 18th, 2014 by Gareth Piggott A dazzling new app for iPhone and iPad plays with London’s geography in ways that’ll have you gawping with delight. London Jigsaw scrambles up the prominent features of the capital; it’s your job to drag them back to their appropriate locations. Can you coax the 32 London boroughs (plus the City) to the correct corners…
A better way to measure household income in London May 21st, 2014 by Gareth Piggott London’s a city of huge contrast – particularly in terms of the income levels of its 3.4 million households. Here at City Hall, we know household income’s very hard to measure accurately. Household structures can be complex, and even if people are happy to disclose their yearly household income, they don’t always know the overall…
Can A New Web Browser Break Into the Market? April 2nd, 2014 by DrewAHendricks The browser business is booming, and it’s lead by a few familiar faces including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. It’s incredibly difficult for new browsers to penetrate the market, but there’s one such browser called Waterfox, which is attempting to gain a foothold into the market by claiming to be the fastest browser…
