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Open Data, Transparency, Fan-In and Fan-Out
In digital electronics, the notions of fan in and fan out describe, respectively, the number of inputs a gate (or, on a chip, a pin) can handle, or the number of output connections it can drive. I’ve...
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Open Data (or Not) About Designated Public Place Orders on the Isle of Wight
A couple of notices taken out in this week’s Isle of Wight County Press by the Isle of Wight Council raise notice that a couple more areas are to become “designated public spaces”, which means that the...
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AP Business Wire Service Takes on Algowriters
Via @simonperry, news that AP will use robots to write some business stories (Automated Insights are one of several companies I’ve been tracking over the years who are involved in such activities, eg...
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Using Open Data to Hold Companies to Account?
Some rambling but possibly associated thoughts… I suggest you put Alice’s Restaurant on… For some time now, I’ve had an uncomfortable feeling about the asymmetries that exist in the open data world as...
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More OpenData Published – So What?
Whenever a new open data dataset is released, the #opendata wires hum a little more. More open data is a Good Thing, right? Why? Haven’t we got enough already? In a blog post a few weeks ago, Alan...
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Corporate Groupings in Care Provision – Finding the Data for GP Practices,...
For some time I’ve been pondering the best way of trying to map the growth in the corporate GP care provision – the number of GP practices owned by Virgin Care, Care UK and so on. Listings about GP...
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Confused Fragments About Open Data Economics…
Some fragments… - the public paid for it so public has a right to it: the public presumably paid for it through their taxes. Companies that use open public data that don’t fully and fairly participate...
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Using Open Public Data to Hold Companies to Account
I’ve been in a ranty mood all day today, so to finish it off, here are some thoughts about how we can start to use #opendata to hold companies to account. The trigger was finding a dataset released by...
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Holding Companies to Account – Open Data Consolidation
According to Wikipedia: In business, consolidation or amalgamation is the merger and acquisition of many smaller companies into much larger ones. In the context of financial accounting, consolidation...
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Using Open Data to Hold Companies to Account – Total Receipts Over £25,000?
In Holding Companies to Account – Open Data Consolidation, I noted a couple of different ways in which we could use opendata to consolidate something of what we know about companies that provide...
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Pondering Local Spending Data, Again…
Last night I saw a mention of a budget review consultation being held by the Milton Keynes Council. I’ve idly wondered before about whether spending data could be used to inform these consultations,...
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Validating Local Spending Data
In passing, I noticed on the Local Government Association (LGA) website a validator for checking the format of documents used to publish local council spending data, as well as various other data...
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A Quick Look Around the Open Data Landscape
I haven’t done a round up of open data news for a bit, so I here’s a quick skim through some of my current open browser tabs on the subject. First up, the rather concerning news that DCLG [are] to...
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Grabbing Screenshots of folium Produced Choropleth Leaflet Maps from Python...
I had a quick play with the latest updates to the folium python package today, generating a few choropleth maps around some of today’s Gov.UK data releases. The problem I had was that folium generates...
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JSON Data Goodness on the new ONS (Office for National Statistics) Website
Via the @ONSDigital blog (http://blog.ons.digital/2016/02/25/new-ons-website-launched/, it seems that the new Office for National Statistics website, which publishes the UK’s official government...
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More Observations on the ONS JSON Feeds – Returning Bulletin Text as Data
Whilst starting to sketch out some python functions for grabbing the JSON data feeds from the new ONS website, I also started wondering how I might be able to make use of them in a simple slackbot that...
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Chatting With ONS Data Via a Simple Slack Bot
A recent post on the ONS Digital blog – Dueling with datasets – describes some of the design decisions taken when putting together the new Office for National Statistics website (such as having a...
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Calling an OData Service From Python – UK Parliament Members Data Platform
Whilst having a quick play producing Slack bots and slash commands around the UK Parliament APIs, I noticed (again) that the Members data platform has an OData endpoint. OData is a data protocol for...
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Chat Sketches with the Companies House API, Before the F***kWit UKGov Sell It...
Ranty title a gut reaction response to news that the Land Registry faces privatisation. Sketching around similar ideas to my Slack/slash conversational autoresponder around the Parliament data platform...
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Trawling the Companies House API to Generate Co-Director Networks
Somewhen ago (it’s always somewhen ago; most of the world never seems to catch up with what’s already happened!:-( I started dabbling with the OpenCorporates API to generate co-director corporate maps...
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