- understanding wcag - this article explains the P.O.U.R principle really well
- empathy prompts - a curious site that tries to put you in different shoes
- when nudges backfire - according to this study, using nudge techniques can sometimes have undesired effects
- Behavioural Insight Team. (2010) EAST: Four Simple Ways to Apply Behavioural Insights
- behavioural nudges for ctax arrears in barking and dagenham - an example of the EAST framework in use
- principles and algorithms - some approachs to mapping data
- multivariate dot density mapping - showing many groups at once
- cartography guide - insights and tips for designing maps
- backofyourhand - test your street knowledge
- snippet generator - works for sublime, code, and atom
- testing notebooks - the doctest pattern is interesting as it embeds good practice in relation to documentation as well as testing
- csvlint - validation and linting suggestions
- data-curator - desktop csv editor and validator suitable for preparing open data
- xl-to-csv - windows script to batch convert xl to csv
- pattern analysis - 5-data-store-patterns-data-lakes-data-hubs-data-virtualization-data-federation-data
- https://miktysh.com.au/data-lake-vs-data-warehouse-vs-data-hub-whats-the-difference/ - data-lake-vs-data-warehouse-vs-data-hub-whats-the-difference
- https://www.semarchy.com/blog/how-to-differentiate-a-data-hub-a-data-lake-and-a-data-warehouse/ - how-to-differentiate-a-data-hub-a-data-lake-and-a-data-warehouse
- commonplaces - collection of commonplac.es consultations for lewisham
- fixymystreet - open api to envirocrime reporting
- lovecleanstreets - envirocrime reporting service
- londonair - near-realtime air-sensor data
- datastore - gla datasets tagged with lewisham
- council tax QRC4
- epc data - registration required
- imd - cut for london (also see analysis)
- hesa - higher education data
- camden data charter - a clear approach to linked data projects
- haunted by data - the ethical implications of the longevity of data, ceglowski shows parallels between data and nuclear waste
- catalog of bias
- geojson tools
- geojsonlint
- conversion - a handy utility for converting between geospatial formats
- csv2geojson
- reconciling statistical and administrative geometries
- mapshaper - a wide range of geometry tools
- turf.js - analysis tools
- zoomstack basemaps on qgis - ordnance survey vector basemaps are free
- adding glow to features - if you want features to pop off the basemap, try making them glow
- geomob podcasts - paul ramsey (postgis), ilya zyerev (openstreetmap), tom macwright (openstreetmap, mapbox, observable) and many of the greats
- oh-my-zsh on git bash - oh-my-zsh has a great git plugin as standard
- daff - data diff in git
- git-xl - diff spreadsheets
- dvc - versioning data and models
- flat data - scraping and flattening data for inclusion in tables (also a good way to learn a bit of deno)
- simon willison's gitscraping posts - simon has provided great examples of using git for data
- graph commons - some shared graphs
- the great deverticalisation - the case for decentralised, horizontal integration by use of data standards
- overpass turbo - feature query tool
- node/way/relation history - prior changesets for a given feature
- tagfinder - exploring tag uses
- taginfo - exploring tag uses
- adding council data
- conflation for councils - tool for manually merging third party datasets
- mapcomplete - thematic mapping (pubs/cafes example)
- guesstimate - can be used to estimate the impact of a project (e.g. on saving money)
- nesta's four point project plan
- black - blackened code makes for the smallest possible diffs
- cookiecutter - templating project files, the datascience one is good for having a common ground when working jointly
- sharepoint/365 client - make sure your credentials go in a non-versioned file!
- pyjanitor - adopt neat data standards
- fuzzywuzzy - levenshtein distance join options
- data science handbook - interviews with the people who defined the field of data science
- Vogl, T. (2021) Artificial Intelligence in Local Government: Enabling Artificial Intelligence for Good Governance in UK Local Authorities.
- Vogl, T.M., Seidelin, C., Ganesh, B. and Bright, J. (2020) Smart technology and the emergence of algorithmic bureaucracy: artificial intelligence in UK local authorities
- Ng, Andrew, (2020) AI Transformation Playbook
- Bright, J., Ganesh, B., Seidelin, C. and Vogl, T.M. (2019) Data Science for Local Government, SSRN Electronic Journal.
- Bright, J.M., Lee, S.M., MARGETTS, H., Wang, N. and Hale, S. (2019) Explaining Download Patterns in Open Government Data: Citizen participation or private enterprise?
- Policy in Practice. (2020) Council Tax debt collection and low-income Londoners
- A comparison of machine learning methods for predicting recurrence and death after curative-intent radiotherapy
- list of local government services
- starting out in stockport part 1 / part 2
- design methods for designing services - how to use the double diamond and associated tools
- service design tools
- emergency housing design - case study of the design council housing work for lewisham
- A beginner’s guide to what service design is not
- “So, like, what is service design?”
- Comparing service design and business analysis - Differences and similarities between service design and business analysis
- Good services - 15 principles of good service design
- Full Stack Service Design - A model that helps people to break services down into parts
- Design methods for developing services
- data and design
- improving council tax collection in north lincolnshire
- send.vis.ee - community fork of mozilla send's safe sharing
- wormhole - webtorrent based safe sharing by feross
- loud numbers - musical tracks based on data
- yaqui - a neat triple-store query tool
- datasette - an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
- dwp principles
- adult social care
- esd data maturity assessment
- better use of data
- data orchard framework
- gloucestershire data management strategy
- centralgov data quality
- loti data quality
- national data strategy - description of the key elements underpinning effective use of data
- data-to-viz
- litvis
- ft visual vocabulary
- visualization curriculum
- color brewer
- i want hue
- viz-palette
- chromajs palette generator
- coolors 1 colour palette
- coolors 2 colour palette
- infogram - as used by wandsworth
- wcag in relation to vega-lite
- data vis
- scrollytelling ecosystem
- scrollytelling deprivation
- scrollytelling cost of living
- scrollytelling covid - may be paywalled
- color universal design (cud)