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Data Impact Blog
Wed 5 Apr 2017 - Data Impact Blog

Reflections on research data management workshops in Gujarat, India

Louise Corti, Director of Collections Development and Producer Relations at the UK Data Service, updates us on her recent trip to Gandhinagar, India where she ran workshops on research data managem...

Data Impact Blog
Tue 28 Mar 2017 - Data Impact Blog

Ethics and the alleged misuse of social media data

Libby Bishop, Producer Relations Manager and expert on the ethics of re-using data and informed consent at the UK Data Service, discusses the ethical considerations and the importance of setting st...

Data Impact Blog
Thu 23 Feb 2017 - Data Impact Blog

Reflections on ‘Encounters with Big Data’, our course in Cape Town

Louise Corti, Director of Collections Development and Producer Relations at the UK Data Service, and Chris Park, Data Scientist, report back from the course, Encounters with Big Data: An Introducti...

Data Impact Blog
Thu 16 Feb 2017 - Data Impact Blog

Creating a unified 2011 Census dataset for the four nations of the UK

Rob Dymond-Green describes the creation of the 2011 UK Census dataset available through InFuse.

Data Impact Blog
Tue 14 Feb 2017 - Data Impact Blog

The earnings effects of sexual orientation: How being in a partnership matters

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Research Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Researcher at The London School of Economics (LSE), discusses...

Data Impact Blog
Mon 6 Feb 2017 - Data Impact Blog

1961 Census Digitisation: Statistical archaeology, getting the data off the artefact and creating a new linked data collection

We are delighted to report our progress on our pioneering ‘statistical archaeology’ project to retrieve ‘lost’ information from the 1961 Census Small Area Statistics (SAS) from a large set of digit...