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This our blog about what's happening with our data, where we will talk about the great work you in the community are doing. We will feature useful datasets and have posts from guests on what they use, and talk about the standards we are setting for government data. Contact us if we should showcase your work.
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Weather data in data.gov.uk
Posted by AAcuna on 08/02/2012 in Data | 11 commentsLast year, before Christmas, we made available through Data.gov.uk observational and forecasting data from the Met Office. The interface and mechanism to access and download the data is in beta for the moment, as we are still learning how to best...
Prime Minister commits to new open data on health, schools, courts and transport
Posted by Data.gov.uk Team on 07/07/2011 in Data, Leadership | 15 commentsAs part of our continuing commitment to open up public services, the Prime Minister today committed the Government to publishing key data on the National Health Service, schools, criminal courts and transport. This represents the most ambitious open...
New Government data explorers on the front page
Posted by Data.gov.uk Team on 15/06/2011 in Data, Site | 38 commentsWe have updated the front page of the site to give access to some tools that let you explore some key datasets we have released. This followed on from feedback about how we can make public data more useful, and having a front page that shows the...
Guest blog post: Open data at DCLG – the English Indices of Deprivation and more…
Posted by Data.gov.uk Team on 27/05/2011 in Data | 7 commentsThe following guest blog post was written by Steve Peters and is kindly reproduced here. Please let us know your thoughts and comments in the usual way, via the comments section at the end of the post. Disclaimer: the views expressed in this...
Application developer guest post - UK Fuel Prices
Posted by Data.gov.uk Team on 05/05/2011 in Data | 16 commentsWelcome to the final in our series of guest blog posts written by Data.gov.uk community members who have developed applications using data available on Data.gov.uk. This week, Raphael Corre writes about the UK Fuel Prices application. ...