Mapping the census: how one man produced a library for all | News
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on 02/07/2013
Excerpt: The census is an amazing resource - so full of data it's hard to know where to begin. And increasingly where to begin is by putting together web-based interactives - like this one on language and this on transport patterns that we produced this month. But one academic is taking everything back to basics - using some pretty sophisticated techniques. Alex Singleton, a lecturer in geographic information science (GIS) at Liverpool University has used R to create the open atlas project. Singleton has basically produced a detailed mapping report - as a PDF and vectored images - on every one of the local authorities of England & Wales. He automated the process and has provided the code for readers to correct and do something with.... read the full post.
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Census 2011: the language data visualised
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on 01/31/2013
Excerpt: Download the data
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• Contact us at data@guardian. co.... read the full post.
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Excerpt: Download the data • DATA: download the full spreadsheet NEW! Buy our book • Facts are Sacred: the power of data (on Kindle) More open data Data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Development and aid data • Search the world's global development data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? • Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group • Contact us at data@guardian. co.... read the full post.
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