We have launched a new Planning Data platform on GOV.UK which aims to make land and housing data easier to find, understand, use and trust. Data is collected from local planning authorities and transformed into a consistent state, across England: planning.data.gov.uk (1/2)

National Trust founder Octavia Hill fought for space, beauty and fresh air for everyone. If you know people who would benefit from a free family trip to a lovely place this Autumn, please share this link bit.ly/3RtfQRF

who will take me to the cathedral-turned-bookshop

Really important and amazing job being recruited: National Statistician. You’d be in charge of Office for National Statistics (ONS) and oversee UK official statistics which hold up a mirror to the soul of our nation. It needs a brilliant field so please share this one civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?…

🎅🏾 What a year! For our #health & care teams: thanks for all you’ve done, the lives you’ve helped save, your passion and dedication. ‘My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are. To astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.’ Maya Angelou

I normally find it quite straightforward to get the layers out of these webmaps, but not this one - anyway it's interesting to be able to see all the Levelling Up projects in one place communities.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/ind…

Anno 2022: Het grootste deel van de Nederlandse bevolking (16+) vindt dat vrouwen in deeltijd zouden moeten werken, ongeacht of ze jonge kinderen hebben of niet. longreads.cbs.nl/emancipatiemon…

'Heilige plaatsnamen' in Europa. biqdata.wyborcza.pl/biqdata/7,1591…

apparently a lot of cis women need to hear this but a world where our faces, bodies, hair, breasts, clothing and voice are constantly scrutinized as "not feminine enough" is infinitely more dangerous than a world where trans women might also be in the bathroom and need to pee

We've published new measures of the things people said matter to their well-being in our Measures of National Well-being dashboard, including 💷 Gender pay gap 🎓 Satisfaction with education system 💻 Digital exclusion 🩺 Physical health conditions Find out more ⬇️

Influenza is rising from a low base and COVID is increasing. Antiviral 'flu medicines can now be used in primary care. If you are eligible please get vaccinated. For healthcare workers, vaccination helps protect you, your patients and your colleagues. gov.uk/government/sta…

🚨🗺️📊Calling all UK local data nerds… After more than a year of development, we’ve just launched #ExploreLocalStatistics, a brand new way to explore 57 datasets from across government right down to a local authority level! …lore-local-statistics.beta.ons.gov.uk 🧵1/5

cool paper. we also looked into the impact of dataset scale on hate-speech content and found that dataset scaling does not indeed "cancel out noise" but rather scaling results in dataset quality degradation x.com/Abebab/status/…

Is it possible to reliably compare crime rates across the developed world’s largest cities? Actually, it’s harder than you might think, but for interesting reasons. A thread for nerds 🤓…

Extremely well deserved, a mammoth ongoing effort!

OECD data, publications and analysis become freely accessible oecd.org/en/about/news/… press release from OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives OECD Data Explorer data-explorer.oecd.org The new policy applies to "most OECD written content published as of 1 July 2024". #OA #openaccess #opendata

(1/6) Cities bring particular challenges and opportunities for the health of those who live, work and study in them. This CMO annual report explores what we can do to improve health in cities: gov.uk/government/pub…

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

Could you or someone you know spearhead our mission to create a world in which statistics and data drive decision making? We will soon begin the search for the next RSS president, and would love to hear from you about potential candidates 👉 ow.ly/saca50UB8eM

Maar dit is toch eigenlijk best een prima en leuk initiatief van HEMA? 🥰