Bird calls for better data on rogue attacks in Afghanistan
Professor Sheila Bird has said that the UK Government's unwillingness to pressure the Afghan government to make public data on the size and fatality rate of the newly ISAF-trained Afghan National ...
Risk register veto marks new dimension to freedom of information: ICO
Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has described Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s decision to veto the publication of NHS risk registers as a “significant step in the Government’s ...
School of data seeks recruit to create Data Wrangling 101 course
The nascent School of Data is recruiting its first data wrangler, whose role will include building content for learning challenges and courses.
One the wrangler's first tasks will be to help ...
Members – you – are the ‘eyes and ears’ of the RSS campaign to improve statistical literacy
The RSS is striving to improve public understanding and use of statistics. Our campaign, getstats, can only be as effective as members make it, as we seek opportunities to improve awareness, ...
New law obliges publishing of public data in open formats
A newly enacted amendment to the UK Freedom of Information (FOI) Act (pdf format, opens in new window) requires public sector organisations to publish open data in standard, re-usable formats ...
Willetts announces “seismic shift” to open access to publicly funded research
Universities and science minister David Willetts has unveiled a new government initiative to make publicly funded research freely available online in open standard formats, the Guardian has reported.
Open ...
Press seeks contributions to the ‘Very Short History of Data Science’
What's The Big Data?, a blog that charts "the evolving IT landscape", has appealed for contributions to its attempt to describe the origin and evolution of data science as a discipline and ...
Data Journalism Handbook set for publication this week
The Data Journalism Handbook, a free, open source reference book for anyone interested in the emerging field, is due to be launched during the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy ...
