Mapping census data with ArcGIS Online
Rachel Oldroyd and Luke Burns work step by step through the process of using ArcGIS Online to map census data.
Continue reading →UKDS.Stat and DKAN – Ingesting data
Over the course of a few weeks the team has been creating a new instance of UKDS.Stat, one of our products for viewing international data. Doing so has been a challenge but it has been interesting to compare to the data loading process that happens when ingesting data onto DKAN. For our DKAN instance we…
Continue reading →Improving our search capabilities
When searching our digital resources site you may find being somewhat specific in your search terms doesn’t get you the correct results. Take this screenshot for example. We want to find any datasets containing age 37. It is very specific number that someone might want to search and yet here we get no results. This…
Continue reading →Thinking geographically about ethnic and socio-economic segregation
Richard Harris discusses a different approach to measuring ethnic and socio-economic segregation and fitting a multilevel index of segregation to census data in R.
Continue reading →Our Q-step interns look back over their time with us
This summer, we were lucky enough to have Manchester students Rabia Butt and Klara Valentova joined us for a Q-step internship. Q-Step was developed as a strategic response to the shortage of quantitatively-skilled social science graduates. Manchester is one of 15 centres taking part in a £19.5 million programme designed to promote a step-change in quantitative social…
Continue reading →Feeding a monster – Solving a problem with bulk data importing
For some time now the UK Data Service instance of DKAN has been populated manually one dataset at a time. This was until a module known as feeds was discovered that could bulk upload a set of datasets all in one go. The feeds module itself takes in a selection of different inputs but we…
Continue reading →Hacking data on nutrition and greenhouse gas emissions
What happened at the GGDOT Hacknight in Manchester, when people explored the National Diet and Nutrition Survey and a dataset looking at greenhouse gas emissions associated with food?
Continue reading →The Feeds Module – A faster way to bulk upload datasets to DKAN
A problem that plagues any holder of large amounts of data is getting them all uploaded to a new site or updated if something is slightly off. Such is the problem we have been trying to tackle as of late. Initially the idea was that to get these datasets uploaded or updated all in bulk…
Continue reading →Rabia and Carstairs
Rabia Butt, one of our summer Q-Step interns, explains the process she went through to calculate and map the Carstairs deprivation index using UK Census data.
Continue reading →Klara and Carstairs
Klara Valentova looks back over how far her skills have developed over the last seven weeks as an intern and reviews some of her findings from her work with the Carstairs index of deprivation.
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