The first dataset is our work on classifying charities. We undertook this piece of work about 2 years ago, in order to better understand the nature of the voluntary sector. While we had some classification information (such as the classification system used by the Charity Commission), the nature of these meant that producing stats that [...]

Recently websites lacunched based on the Open Data from Trafford Council including the Trafford Open Data Maps site and the Trafford Supplier Spend site. Trafford  then released the data of the Council Tax bands each of the 90,000+ properties in Trafford and I had to map that, it’s such juicy data! more

Manchester City Council is the latest local authority to publish open data on its web site. The information, including locations of libraries, recycling sites, banks and open spaces, is available in a range of file formats. Offered under an Open Government Licence, Manchester’s data has a range of applications – for example KML file data [...]

Pic and Mix aims to increase public access to Kent-related datasets including those generated by Kent County Council (KCC). For the purposes of the pilot, we have brought together a sample of the most useful information. Where possible, it’s been provided in a format that allows it to be ‘mashed’ and customised. Please help us shape this initiative by suggesting additional data and ways in which we can improve this site. And if you do anything clever with the data, we’d like you to share that with us too!

T and od v2 View more presentations from Nigel Shadbolt.

Nottingham University is giving masterclasses around the UK for those who want to do something with the government data has become available since the launch of data.gov.uk. Nottingham, 13 October 2010 From the announcement (via Guardian data blog): “The past few months have seen a number of high profile announcements on the release of central [...]

What are mySociety’s goals? mySociety has two missions. The first is to be a charitable project which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. The second is to teach the public and voluntary sectors, through demonstration, how to use the internet most efficiently to improve [...]

Advised by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and others, government is opening up data for reuse. This site seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data and is under constant development. We want to work with you to make it better. We’re very aware that there are more people like [...]

The UK government has announced plans to open up its data for the first time, offering a wealth of new information and news leads for national and local journalists. In a letter from David Cameron to all government departments, the Prime Minister set out a series of datasets and deadlines for their release, including new [...]

Tim Davies submitted to the University of Oxford his MSc Dissertation. It is shared using the Digress.it platform which allows for paragraph level commenting and hyperlinking to elements of the document. Governments are increasingly making their data available online in standard formats and under licenses that permit the free re-use of data. The justifications advanced [...]

Open data is about increased transparency, about sharing the information we hold with the wider community to build useful applications. We’re always looking for new ways of making it as easy as possible for developers and website owners to access and present data held by us in ways that they want – allowing you to [...]

Schooloscope is an honest, independent, straightforward guide to how your local schools are getting on. We take official Government-backed information about state schools in England and try to tease out something interesting from the dry tables of statistics. Our aim is to show what each school feels like. Are the kids happy there? Is the [...]

Here are some sites that publish open data is useful formats, help with getting data, aid visualization of data and use data interesting ways: Opening the data door Data.gov.uk is your on stop shop for open data. Raw and in the flesh, this is the UK governments latest attempt at getting public data into the [...]

Manchester opendata View more presentations from Tony Hirst.

Hillingdon Council has entered to open data areana and provides (or will provide) data sets on  in a variety of formats as they become available: Community and living Download data on CCTV, grit bins, recycling, Citizen Advice offices, in a variety of formats. Council and democracy Data for download on local wards amd constituencies, and [...]

The website  www.legislation.gov.uk is managed by The National Archives on behalf of HM Government.  Publishing all UK legislation is a core part of the remit of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), part of The National Archives, and the Office of the Queen’s Printer for Scotland. The original (as enacted) and revised versions of legislation on [...]

Make it Local aims to encourage collaboration between local authorities and digital media developers, to provide innovative, web-based services for their communities. Make it Local is encouraging local authorities to release publicly-owned data in a linked way which allows developers an opportunity to build new services using the information. Local authorities hold significant amounts of [...]

Congrelate lets you view, sort, filter and share information about members of Congress and their districts. We’ve brought data from Congress, the Census, OpenSecrets, GovTrack and more into a single place, to see the data and how it relates. For instance: check out who got the most money from tobacco companies in 2008, the top [...]

The last few years have seen some fantastic Twitter visualizations using all sorts of approaches. Standing out would be difficult. That said, whilst many of these are great fun, only a few convey a sense of context or capture the spirit of popular occasions. A super softareprogrammers team from the Guardian build this application that [...]

The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was established by the Prime Minister, met yesterday for the first time. The Board will drive forward the Government’s transparency agenda, making it a core part of all government business and ensuring that all Whitehall departments meet the new tight deadlines set for releasing key public datasets. In addition, [...]