Category Archives: Data
Data for the Community: New research for Power to Change
Power To Change: empowering people Power to Change is an independent charitable trust that supports and develops community businesses in England. With an endowment of £150 million in 2015 from the Big Lottery Fund, Power to Change helps local people run … Continue reading
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Using Data as a policy maker – Pt1
This is the first in a series of posts about an event: Using Data as a policy maker, which was held in Winchester, in November 2015. This post first appeared on the Open Data Aha! blog. Using data for policy … Continue reading
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Posted in Data, Environment, Evidence, Farming, Hampshire, Hampshire Hub, Local Infrastructure, Maps, Open Data, Transparency and Decision Making
Tagged data, Hampshire, open data
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Demonstrating the value of open data – GP Pressure Map
I was really pleased to see GP Pressure Map featured on the BBC’s South Today programme on 31st March. GP Pressure Map – part of the Open City Data Platform – was one of the “highs” I mentioned in my final … Continue reading
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Posted in Data, Data Visualisation, Hampshire Hub, Open Data, Transparency and Decision Making
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The Business Case for Open Data
Martin Tisné, UK Policy Director for Omidyar Network, and Nicholas Gruen, CEO of Lateral Economics have published a new report Open for Business: How Open Data Can Help Achieve the G20 Growth Target The report considers the potential for open data, … Continue reading
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Data sharing between public bodies
In autumn of last year, the Law Commission launched its Consultation into data sharing between public bodies. If you haven’t read it before, you can preview and download the document at the end of this post. Scoping exercise Unlike other … Continue reading
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Hampshire publishes Aerial Photography as open data (finally!)
In my previous post about aerial photography, I explained that our aerial photography provider, Blom Aerofilm, flew the whole of Hampshire over the Summer of 2013 and captured high resolution imagery and data. Last time, I said that the Hampshire … Continue reading
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Posted in Data, Environment, Flood, Maps, Open Data, Rivers
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Next steps for the Hampshire Hub
The story so far In my previous post I explained that the Hampshire Hub has been through a few changes, starting life as a ‘thinking aloud’ web site, then regenerating as a ‘prototype’, and most recently what we’ve been calling … Continue reading
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Linking data across multiple organisations – Hampshire example
You may have seen Dan’s post about Hampshire’s Land Supply Phasing Open Data in which he mentions the Pilot Project for Linked Open Data. Our land supply linked data features in this recent blog post by John Goodwin: Tell Me About … Continue reading
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Posted in Data, Data sharing, Data Visualisation, Land Supply, Open Data
Tagged Linked Data, open data
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Hampshire Hub featured on DATA.GOV.UK blog
We’re pleased to see that news about Hampshire Hub is beginning to spread, with a post about the Hampshire Hub featured on DATA.GOV.UK , the UK’s main data sharing platform. This is actually the second time the Hampshire Hub has got a mention … Continue reading
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Social Media flooding map
ESRI UK – the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) specialist – has produced a Social Media Flooding Map. This interactive map shows geolocated posts which have been shared on several social networks – Twitter, You Tube and Flickr. Users are able … Continue reading
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Posted in Data, Data Visualisation, Environment, Flood, Maps, Partnership Working, Social media, Technology
Tagged Maps, social media
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