Open Data

Open Data Is Easy

Over the last few weeks we’ve worked on a number of shared projects, from research to training, that have helped me to clarify…

The Next Chapter

Since I started doing The Data Place full-time I’ve found that we’ve been way too busy to blog.

Data Loop

Simon developed the Data Loop over four years ago as a canvas for bringing together data…

Data Discovery

Discovering relevant datasets can be a challenge, often as a result of not knowing what data is needed because we don’t have any…

Levelling Up Open Data Publishing: A Session From #localgovcamp17

Today Lucy Knight and Martin Howitt ran a quick session at #localgovcamp17 on some of the challenges and opportunities for getting to the next stage with open data publishing. This post offers a brief summary of some…

The Martinbot: Concierges, Personalities in Code and AI.

Warranty.

One of the tenets of the philosophy behind The Data Place is the belief that open data stores should be more of a commodity: that is, we want to lower the barriers to people having one (or more than one). The Data Place is built using open-source software, but more things than code are required to make a…

Designing The Data Place

This short(ish) post is intended to introduce some of the ways we’re thinking about design for The Data Place although we’ll be exploring some of these themes (and others) more comprehensively in later posts.

Simple Journeys

Communicating with data

No matter how technical data infrastructure and analysis gets, for me it’s always about people: using data to start a conversation, aid understanding, illustrate a conclusion. At the current rate of technological development more and more data is being shared and published, so the data…