Weave for visualization development
Updated: 2012-02-07 10:39:30
Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment, or Weave for short, is open source software intended for flexible visualization. Weave (BETA 1.0) …- Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment, or Weave for short, is open source software intended for flexible visualization. Weave (BETA 1.0) …
Members Only: How to Make a Contour Map
Updated: 2012-02-07 09:32:24
Filled contour plots are useful for looking at density across two dimensions and are often used to visualize geographic data. It's straightforward to make them in R — once you get your data in the right format, that is.An action plan for data science, a decade ago
Updated: 2012-02-03 11:58:20
Data science has been covered at length during the past couple of years, and we tend to think of it …Helping local communities in Trafford represent themselves and highlight their needs using an online interactive data hub
Updated: 2012-02-02 16:06:35
Background Trafford Council has been an advocate of open data since May 2010 when the council took the decision to create an open data page on its website to allow access to numerous data it collects. This includes: council tax, business rates, location data, such as for schools and leisure centres and election results. However, [...]Words of Appreciation for Open Knowledge Foundation
Updated: 2012-01-30 08:38:08
Open Knowledge Foundation is an important promoter of open knowledge, data and content. I think it's time to show some appreciation by highlighting some of their initiatives.How the World Health Organization is using data visualisation to present information on inequalities in health system performance across the European Union
Updated: 2012-01-25 15:28:42
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) embarked on a project to improve the availability of and access to evidence on inequalities in health system performance, including quality of care and the structural determinants of these inequalities. The project’s initial focus was on countries in the European Union. The aim was to take into account the geographical nature [...]A Thousand Milieus
Updated: 2012-01-17 15:09:15
Berlin based designer and programmer Christopher Warnow had a closer look at the interest graph between people reading the same books.East Riding Data Observatory – Supporting the localism agenda in the East Riding of Yorkshire through a data presentation initiative
Updated: 2012-01-17 09:52:19
Background The East Riding Observatory is an online resource that provides easy access to population, economic, community safety, health and education data for local authorities, partner agencies and communities across the East Riding of Yorkshire. The East Riding Data Observatory is a member of the Humber Data Observatory Group. Other Observatories in this group are: [...]The National Cancer Intelligence Network – Presenting cancer information in an easy to understand format for all to access
Updated: 2012-01-16 14:46:37
Background The National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) is a UK-wide initiative, working to drive improvements in standards of care and clinical outcomes by improving data and information collected about cancer patients, producing analyses and enabling and promoting research. We spoke to Trish Watts at the NCIN who, along with colleague Steve Davies, has been involved [...]