Thursday, 21 January 2010

data.gov.uk

Although I haven't had time to have a proper look, this looks pretty impressive. It's hard to say what's not on there, which is probably the clincher in terms of genuine freedom of information. But anything which gets a wider audience for, and hopefully promotes the use of, the huge range of statistics the UK government now holds has to be a good thing.
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3 comments:

  1. She21 January 2010 at 21:09

    'Reuse of data'? Love it. As opposed to the usual 'Uh! Careful there, these data have been in published in a cross-tab already, and good knows in who's SPSS they've been before.' Or rather, best to shelf it away protectively marked, bury the evidence that would never supported these conclusions, policies,...

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  2. She also21 January 2010 at 21:21

    Great blog. Time to have some more people reading it!

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  3. Ben23 January 2010 at 20:32

    Your wish is my command. Now rolled out across, er, Facebook.

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