Tag: data
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Data: Mapping The Time And Place
Obtaining data is often the most difficult part of any analysis as access to resources is often restricted to academia or to those who can afford to buy it. It is rarely cheap. Even if you happen to be a student who is in a highly privileged position to access so much of what is […]
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Data: Re-visualising Medical Results
Information is Beautiful recently won a competition on Wired US magazine to revisualize a bloodwork test. This particularly appealed to me as my recent anaemia was recently presented to me as the number 8.4. Data without context isn’t particularly helpful (see the original image of the results): The context for my blood results was that […]
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Data: A Christmas Infographic
Merry Christmas everyone whether you celebrate or not. I couldn’t let a festive data theme opportunity go by so please enjoy the following yuletide infographic. Information on the origins, celebration and enjoyment of the Christmas tree is presented concisely and clearly in the graphic created by All In One Garden & Leisure and presented on […]
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Data: Resource # Radar at Oreilly.com
Until December 24, the Radar column on the OReilly.com site is offering a bit of a data treat for all interested readers. So far the topics have covered charts, data from wikipedia, designing your own visualisations and an exploration of where to find data. One of the sites listed is freebase.com – a veritable trove […]
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Data: Transparency
In line with the aim of being ‘the most open and transparent government in the world’, the Number10 website have released a section called transparency. Information is listed under the following sections: Business Plans: Check progress on implementing our policies Who does what in Whitehall: and how much are they paid Who ministers are meeting […]
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Data: Is It All Useful?
The Datablog on the Guardian website posts stories along with the data behind them and some news items don’t get any more interesting with this inclusion. The headline: Hunting Act convictions at their highest. Get the figures here The story: Hunting Act convictions are at their highest yet according to new figures out with 57 […]
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Data: all about me, or is it you?
TED is an organisation that promotes itself with the tag line ‘ideas worth spreading’. Presenters have included Tony Robbins, Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Gilbert, Richard Dawkins and Malcolm Gladwell. There are also thousands more on the website (which also include transcripts). TED seems to be a place where all the cool people tend to converge when […]
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Visualising Bristol, Prisoners
Oliver Conner recently shared some of his favourite free technology tools in a recent post and I thought I would take the time and try some. The first one was Tableau Public and it is a visualisation tool apparently which as far as I can tell provides an ‘easy’ way to make graphs and tables […]
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