As we have been adding datasets and resources to our DKAN application, we have discovered that the default searching and filtering that is provided does not give adequate control over the data. After all, the census is a huge collection of data about every household and individual in the UK! Our team have been playing…
Continue reading →We’re always interested in improving our interfaces, and interfaces should adapt and improve over time. As we learn more about what our users need, we fine tune them to their needs. We were recently discussing what we should consider when introducing new features to one of our interfaces. Is the feature needed? It sounds obvious,…
Continue reading →The UK Data Service’s Victoria Moody and Rob Dymond-Green on freeing data from legacy data access platforms.
Continue reading →Ralph Cochrane and the team at AppChallenge have been working with the UK Data Service to support new ways of engaging more people with data, mainly through mobile app development, hackathons and coding competitions. Ralph introduces the UK Data Service’s new quiz app.
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Frameworks (sometimes called platforms or wireframes) are great for software development. They allow programmers to skip over the standard functions and procedures, and jump right into the meat of development. Frameworks like Laravel and Symfony both come with in-built functions that allow developers to pull items from a database in a single line of code….
Continue reading →Recently I was lucky enough to attend a training course in ReactJS programming. This was part of the Statistical Information Systems Collaboration Community (SIS-CC) workshop run by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, April 3rd – 7th 2017.
Continue reading →We wanted to grab some data from HEFCE’s API of Impact Case Studies submitted to the REF2014 to find out how many UK Data Service data collections were used in Impact Case Studies in REF2014 – and the case studies they were used in. John Matthews, software engineer in the census support team talks us through the process:
Continue reading →The international data service provides uniform access to economic and social data from major data providers, e.g. IMF, OECD, World Bank, IEA, UNIDO and UNESCO via the UKDS.Stat platform, read about how we are using APIs to visualise the data
Continue reading →We’re about to embark on developing a new service, at present we’re calling it Integrated Data Access or IDA until we come up with something better. This service will bring together some of the different types of data produced by the census (aggregate statistics, flow data and boundary data), we’ll be initially
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What is Vagrant? In the simplest sense, Vagrant is a program that lets developers create lots of different virtual machines quickly and easily.
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