When is an address not an address? Working with A&E data on violent incident locations April 3rd, 2017 by Richard Fairchild This is a question the GLA Intelligence Unit’s Strategic Crime Analysis team have had to consider in relation to the locations of violent incidents provided by victims on attending hospital. This data is part of the Home Office Information Sharing for Tackling Violence (ISTV) project, where hospitals are encouraged to record additional information at their…
The London Landscape: supporting Policing and Community Safety in a data-rich city March 17th, 2016 by Richard Fairchild Launched today by the GLA and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), the London Landscape is an interactive and easy-to-use collation of over a million data points – covering a wide range of thematic areas from emergency services through to finance and population – providing an overview of London to support police and…
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…
