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Blog Posts
Join the debate at London's Clinical Senate
Posted over 15 years ago
NHS London has started to make NHS data publically available as part of the government’s Information Revolution. There is a range of views about how data should be published and what is the most important kind of information for clinicians and for patients. The data is available on Datastore and on NHS London’s website here: www.london.nhs.uk/your-nhs-in-london/publishing-nhs-data. The London Clinical Senate,...
East London Tech City - What do you think?
Posted over 15 years ago
There has been a good amount of coverage on the recent announcement by the Prime Minister and the Mayor of London on their desire to catalyze investment in east London to transform it into one of the world’s great technology centres. We know that areas like Shoreditch have been incredibly successful, largely without any state investment, thriving predominantly on the...
Guess What's Back? Trackernet Returns
Posted over 15 years ago
When it comes to freeing the data, we don’t just talk about it – we deliver. We are delighted that Transport for London is today launching its new website area for developers with free live Tube information, showing the location of trains across the London Underground network at any time. It is part of TfL’s digital strategy and of the...
First Release of Health Data: Driving Choice & Improving Health Outcomes in London
Posted over 15 years ago
The information revolution is a defining principle of the vision for the new NHS as outlined in the coalition government’s White Paper ‘Equity & Excellence – Liberating the NHS’. In our push to make Health data transparent and available to the public we have published the first of a number of pieces of Health data on the Datastore. The first...
Update on comments
Posted over 15 years ago
Just to let you know that from tomorrow comments will not be published immediately on the datastore. This is due to a huge increase in the number of spam comments we have received which were starting to clutter up pages and make the site more difficult to use. Please be assured that all comments that are non-spam will be published.
Changing the City through Pictures alone?
Posted over 15 years ago
Yesterday City Hall hosted a Visualising London event. I introduced the day with a challenge that the growing digital visualisation movement has to go way beyond simply delivering beautiful evidence if it is to make a real difference. Of course visual impact will engage, but the intersection of the high art of information design, statistics and open data has to...
First release of opinion data – telling Londoners what they already know.
Posted over 15 years ago
In our push to make the work we do at the GLA transparent and available to the public we have published the first of a number of pieces of our opinion research data on Datastore. The first examples up and running are the 2009 Young Londoners Survey, and 2010 Annual London Survey datasets. These pieces of work look at the...
Consultation on changes to the oversight of police forces
Posted over 15 years ago
The Home Office is consulting on changes to the oversight of police forces in the UK, abolishing police authorities and replacing them with elected individuals. In London, it’s expected that this would mean the Mayor would become the Police and Crime Commissioner and the London Assembly would be responsible for holding the elected Commissioner to account. The consultation paper includes...
Update on Trackernet Feed
Posted over 15 years ago
We are aware from all the comments on the Datastore blog that there is a lot of frustration in the developer community regarding the restoration of the TfL Trackernet feed. We hope that the recent release by TfL of bus and tube timetables and schedules along with the release of their live message boards and live traffic disruptions gives you...
McCandless shows the power of intelligent visualisation
Posted almost 16 years ago
David McCandless – driving force behind the Information is Beautiful site, gives an inspiring and thought provoking presentation on how intelligent, well designed data visualisations can help us understand the ever increasing information deluge. Moving quickly through discussions of current affairs topics such as American defence spending versus African debt, to more frivolous endeavours (looking at how Facebook status’s can...