Rabia Butt and Klara Valentova are our Q-Step interns from the University of Manchester. Q-Step is a £19.5 million programme designed to promote a step-change in quantitative social science training, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the ESRC. We asked Rabia and Klara to tell us a bit about themselves and their journey to this internship.
Continue reading →Rabia Butt and Klara Valentova are our Q-Step interns from the University of Manchester. Q-Step is a £19.5 million programme designed to promote a step-change in quantitative social science training, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the ESRC. We asked Rabia and Klara to tell us a bit about themselves and their journey to this internship.
Continue reading →Cameron Hurst explores the joys of updating Drupal 7.59 for DKAN.
Continue reading →Rob Dymond-Green of the UK Data Service explores Kepler.gl, an open source mapping tool for large scale datasets.
Continue reading →Last week, Cameron Hurst began an exploration of what frictionless data is. This week, we share a blog from the Open Knowledge International Blog, where Dan Fowler looks at why the popular file format Excel is problematic for research and what steps can be taken to ensure data quality is maintained throughout the research process. Our Frictionless Data project…
Continue reading →Cameron Hurst looks at an accessible approach to sharing data.
Continue reading →A new version of UKDS.Stat is coming. Version 8 is a complete rework based on the Eurostat SDMX NSI Web Service, featuring SDMX input and output. What that actually means for you, the user is – A simpler, search driven interface. Easy charting An easy way to share your findings More ways to download data…
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We’re always keen to find alternative ways for our users to access and use our data. In evaluating DKAN as our new data delivery service, we discovered that it has a API, which allows other systems to find out about the datasets and resources DKAN holds. We came across a package that is being maintained…
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We have put together three introductory modules concerning key aspects of survey, longitudinal and aggregate data. The modules give an introduction to key aspects of the data using short instructional videos, interactive quizzes and activities using open access software where possible. Take a look and send any comments and suggestions to comms@ukdataservice.ac.uk Data skills modules
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have been recently doing work on question design and gauging the effect of asking questions on topics such as Gender identity, Sexual orientation and Armed forces community. These questions are new following feedback from an earlier topic consultation or to address a policy need. For the new armed forces question,…
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