Drupal 7 is the main back-end to the current version of DKAN. It provides a wealth of features and optional modules that the UK Data Service already makes use of on our own instance. However Drupal 7 is not the latest version of Drupal itself and we were therefore quite pleased to hear that the…
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We currently provide a service available at geoconvert.ukdataservice.ac.uk, which allows a user to discover information about a UK postcode or convert data between its census geographies. A typical output looks something like this: This provides useful information for academics, researchers and other users who understand these types of things but can be a little bit…
Continue reading →Rachel Oldroyd and Luke Burns work step by step through the process of using ArcGIS Online to map census data.
Continue reading →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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…
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