amazing insight and delivery

• accessibility

  • 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

• behavioural science

  • when nudges backfire - according to this study, using nudge techniques can sometimes have undesired effects
  • 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

• benchmarking

  • ifs local
  • lginform

• cartography

  • 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

• chatbots

  • council chatbots
  • council chatbots

• coding

  • 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

• csv

  • csvlint - validation and linting suggestions
  • xl-to-csv - windows script to batch convert xl to csv
  • data-curator - desktop csv editor and validator suitable for preparing open data

• dashboards

  • imd

• data architecture

  • pattern analysis - 5-data-store-patterns-data-lakes-data-hubs-data-virtualization-data-federation-data

• datasets (open data)

  • 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](https://data.london.gov.uk/blog/indices-of-deprivation-2019-initial-analysis/))
  • hesa - higher education data

• ethics

  • 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
  • catalog of bias

• geojson

  • geojson tools
  • geojsonlint
  • conversion - a handy utility for converting between geospatial formats
  • csv2geojson

• geospatial analysis

  • reconciling statistical and administrative geometries
  • mapshaper - a wide range of geometry tools
  • turf.js - analysis tools
  • 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
  • zoomstack basemaps on qgis - ordnance survey vector basemaps are free

• git

  • oh-my-zsh on git bash - oh-my-zsh has a great [git plugin](https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh) as standard
  • git-xl - diff spreadsheets
  • 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 databases

  • graph commons - some shared graphs

• json

  • flattening with jq
  • jq playground
  • jsonlint

• management of data

  • example of documents
  • glossary/dictionary/catalogue

• open standards

  • the great deverticalisation - the case for decentralised, horizontal integration by use of data standards

• openstreetmap

  • 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
  • mapcomplete - thematic mapping (pubs/cafes example)

• projects

  • guesstimate - can be used to estimate the impact of a project (e.g. on saving money)
  • nesta's four point project plan

• reading

  • data science handbook - interviews with the people who defined the field of data science

• research

  • Artificial Intelligence in Local Government: Enabling Artificial Intelligence for Good Governance in UK Local Authorities
  • Smart technology and the emergence of algorithmic bureaucracy: artificial intelligence in UK local authorities
  • AI Transformation Playbook
  • Data Science for Local Government
  • Explaining Download Patterns in Open Government Data: Citizen participation or private enterprise?
  • Artificial Intelligence in Local Government: Enabling Artificial Intelligence for Good Governance in UK Local Authorities
  • Data Science for Local Government

• service design

  • list of local government services
  • part 1 - journey-into-service-design-in-local-government-part-2-new-opportunities/)
  • 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
  • data and design
  • improving council tax collection in north lincolnshire
  • Design methods for developing services

• sharing

  • send.vis.ee - community fork of mozilla send's safe sharing

• sonification

  • loud numbers - musical tracks based on data

• sqlite

  • datasette - an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

• strategy

  • 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

• visualisation

  • data-to-viz
  • litvis
  • visualization curriculum
  • color brewer
  • viz-palette
  • coolors 1 colour palette
  • coolors 2 colour palette
  • infogram - as used by [wandsworth](https://www.datawand.info/indices-of-deprivation-2019/)
  • 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)
  • scrollytelling covid - may be paywalled

• cleaning

  • data cleaning 101