Working to Free London’s Data
London: 8 October 2009
A Workshop – ‘Help us Free London’s Data’ is being held Saturday, 24 October, London’s Living Room, City Hall.
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The event invitation notice states:
“The Greater London Authority is currently in the process of scoping London’s Data Store. Initially we propose to release as much GLA [Greater London Authority] data as possible and to encourage other public agencies in London to do the same and we'd like your help!
We want the input of the developer community from the outset prior to making any decisions on formats or platform. We would therefore like to invite interested developers to City Hall so that we can talk to you about what we want to do, get your views, and seek your input on the best way to deliver for London.On the day we'll be running a requirements specification workshop and a high level technical design session to explore how we might do this in a way that makes sense for the end users - you.
The event will take place in London’s Living Room at 10 am on the morning of Saturday 24 October. If you would like to attend please register your interest.”
Read about Focus on London 2009
“Packed with interesting information about our capital city, the Focus on London report offers a unique snapshot of life in London today.
Bringing together a wealth of research, Focus on London contains fascinating facts and figures about the capital on everything from London's longest rivers, to its tallest buildings, busiest tube lines, top tourist attractions and favourite football teams.
The report, which has been produced almost every year since 1890, also sees the first recorded effect of the credit crunch on mobility with the number of people leaving London to live elsewhere in the UK almost halving since 2004.
The report is produced by the GLA's statistical department, Data Management Analysis Group (DMAG) in partnership with the London Development Agency, Office for National Statistics, London Health Observatory, Met Police, London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade.
For the first time this year we've opened the City Hall archive and are making parts of the 1909 London Statistics report available online, so you can see exactly how much life has changed for the average Londoner over the last hundred years.”
Read about the Focus on London 2009 Data Store
“The underlying data for the 2009 report can be downloaded below.
We‘ve posted the data sets through Google Docs so that everyone can access the data quickly and easily, regardless of whether or not you have the right software installed.
The other advantage of Google Docs is the developer API which enables developers to plug straight into the data … if you build a visualisation from our data then let us know, webteam@london.gov.uk, and we’ll look at posting it on this site.”
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