ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
In April 2022, as the impact of increases in the Cost of Living really came to the forefront, Public Health & Communities, Suffolk County Council published a Cost of Living profile as part of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.
Alongside a written Cost of Living report ‘Making ends meet: The cost of living in Suffolk’, an interactive dashboard was also created using Power BI. In addition to internal data flows, publicly available data from sources such as the ONS have been used to provide a rich picture of the current situation for the local community.
The dashboard was developed in order to:
• Provide up to date data and information on the Cost of Living for Suffolk County Council, partner organisations, and members of the public.
• Deliver an interactive tool to allow users to focus on areas most relevant to them.
• Demonstrate that, while increases in the cost of living affect everyone, impact will be greatest for those who are already under financial pressure, exacerbating inequalities.
• Provide a source of actionable insight to support the system with the evidence base needed to support project development, drive change and really make a difference in the community.
Features of the dashboard:
• Place-focused - published at smaller geographies where possible
• Collaborative - Includes local data from across the system such as data shared by Citizens Advice and other system partners.
• Automated - Most data sources have automated connections, meaning there is little manual intervention required.
• Self-Service - Making the report publicly available puts data at the fingertips of colleagues, system partners and members of the public.
• Live - The dashboard is a living report which is frequently updated.
This session will:
• Provide a demonstration of Suffolk County Council’s Cost of Living dashboard
• Give an overview of data sources
• Explore opportunities for automation using Power BI
• Discuss how the data dashboard is used locally
This event is open to all; however, we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working on cost of living dashboards at the local level.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk.
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
Have you ever wondered which local authorities are similar to each other? This presentation discusses cluster analysis ONS has published to draw insight into which local authorities are performing in a similar way against key policy themes, promoting greater joined up working between local authorities with similar characteristics to address common problems they face. Our analysis also provides local authorities with control groups for investigating the impact of policy interventions.
In this webinar, we will cover the methods used to create our outputs, demonstrate some of our findings in our interactive visualisation tool and present information on our future plans to expand on this work.
This event is open to all, however we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working at a local level, or with data on the policy themes of economy, transport connectivity, education, skills, health and wellbeing.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
Are you interested in finding, visualising, comparing and downloading a wide range of geographically granular datasets in one place? If so, this webinar is definitely for you!
We will present ONS plans for the development of Explore Subnational Statistics (ESS), a public-facing digital service that will allow users to find out more about local areas across the UK.
We will retrace the main milestones in our journey to date, starting from the launch of ESS vision in the GSS subnational data strategy, then taking a closer look at the Subnational Indicators Explorer, and, finally, outlining a roadmap towards the Beta version of the service.
This event is open to all, however we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working at a local level, with data on the policy themes of economy, transport connectivity, education, skills, health and wellbeing, or interested in data visualisation products.
If you have any questions, please contact onslocal@ons.gov.uk
These are the slides presented at the Economic Forum on 26 September 2022.
Presentations this month:
Energy spending by businesses
We present our analysis of businesses' energy spending from the Annual Business Survey 2019 and the Annual Purchases Survey 2018 and the resulting experimental measures of energy intensity. We present how energy intensity varies across and within industries, by energy type and firm size, and depending on the type of measure used.
Tightness in the labour market
We will be presenting analysis of various measures of labour market slack and the relationship between industry unemployment and vacancies.
Welcome to the monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature 'State of the Economy', providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.
Presentations this month include:
New estimates of core inflation - trimmed mean CPI
The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on UK GDP
International Trade Flows of G7 Economies
We also welcome Fergal Shortall, Director of Monetary Analysis, Bank of England who will be providing a welcome to the forum.
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
Have you ever wondered which local authorities are similar to each other? This presentation discusses cluster analysis ONS has published to draw insight into which local authorities are performing in a similar way against key policy themes, promoting greater joined up working between local authorities with similar characteristics to address common problems they face. Our analysis also provides local authorities with control groups for investigating the impact of policy interventions.
In this webinar, we will cover the methods used to create our outputs, demonstrate some of our findings in our interactive visualisation tool and present information on our future plans to expand on this work.
This event is open to all, however we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working at a local level, or with data on the policy themes of economy, transport connectivity, education, skills, health and wellbeing.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
Are you interested in finding, visualising, comparing and downloading a wide range of geographically granular datasets in one place? If so, this webinar is definitely for you!
We will present ONS plans for the development of Explore Subnational Statistics (ESS), a public-facing digital service that will allow users to find out more about local areas across the UK.
We will retrace the main milestones in our journey to date, starting from the launch of ESS vision in the GSS subnational data strategy, then taking a closer look at the Subnational Indicators Explorer, and, finally, outlining a roadmap towards the Beta version of the service.
This event is open to all, however we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working at a local level, with data on the policy themes of economy, transport connectivity, education, skills, health and wellbeing, or interested in data visualisation products.
If you have any questions, please contact onslocal@ons.gov.uk
These are the slides presented at the Economic Forum on 26 September 2022.
Presentations this month:
Energy spending by businesses
We present our analysis of businesses' energy spending from the Annual Business Survey 2019 and the Annual Purchases Survey 2018 and the resulting experimental measures of energy intensity. We present how energy intensity varies across and within industries, by energy type and firm size, and depending on the type of measure used.
Tightness in the labour market
We will be presenting analysis of various measures of labour market slack and the relationship between industry unemployment and vacancies.
Welcome to the monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature 'State of the Economy', providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.
Presentations this month include:
New estimates of core inflation - trimmed mean CPI
The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on UK GDP
International Trade Flows of G7 Economies
We also welcome Fergal Shortall, Director of Monetary Analysis, Bank of England who will be providing a welcome to the forum.
A one-day event which discussed how the cost of living is affecting the UK economy and what this means for different households, informed by the range of statistics that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) produces.
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
On 22 March ONS released this year's housing affordability ratios for local authorities. In this webinar, we discussed:
- The long-term and emerging patterns in the data
- The data quality of this year's figures
- The impact of covid-19 on the estimates
We'd be interested in hearing your feedback on the estimates, especially if you or colleagues are involved in the Local Housing Needs or Housing Delivery Target process.
At the same time ONS has been enabled (and challenged) to produce new tables, visualisations and analyses which we'll showcase, such as:
- Census 2021 housing topic report and maps
- Purchase affordability (household income based affordability, for Scotland, Wales, England and its regions)
- Private rental affordability (for NI, Wales, England and its regions)
- Energy efficiency of housing (down to LSOA level, for England and Wales)
- Cost of Living research, by tenure (national)
We talked about future ONS housing releases, and some of the range of new country-level cost of living analyses.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk
Welcome to the monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature ‘State of the Economy’, providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.
Restarting the regular updates of the Measuring National Well-being dashboard in August 2022 celebrates not only, over 10 years since its creation, but its developments to date. This includes publishing alongside GDP and Climate change insights for the first time to more holistically measure progress in the UK. This milestone gives us an opportunity to reflect on the changes to society during this time and the original 34,000 responses which fed into its design and creation.
With an opening address by Sir Ian Diamond, the National Statistician, this event will launch a consultation to review the measures included in the dashboard and how we communicate these insights.
Welcome to the monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature ‘State of the Economy’, providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.
This half day virtual event was opened by ONS senior leaders, offering their perspective on ONS ambitions for business statistics.
Attendees will hear updates from the producers of key UK business surveys, data, statistics and projects, including:
Annual Business Survey (ABS)
Annual Purchases Survey (APS)
Business Enterprise Research and Development (BERD) survey
Government Research and Development (GovERD) survey
Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS)
Regional Gross Domestic Product
Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) and transformation to the Statistics Business Register (SBR)
Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and other linked business microdata
Secure Research Service (SRS) and transformation to the Integrated Data Service (IDS)
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
In recent months, the ONS Data Science Campus has published data and insights on feasible travel at a hyperlocal level and rail schedule disruptions at every station in Great Britain. We are currently scoping the need for further work in this area, which may include topics such as reliability, cost, international comparability, and the type and quality of services accessible. In this webinar, we present existing work and gathered user needs from local institutions for data and statistics in this area.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk.
The ONS hosted our global first trade and investment user event. Over the last few years, feedback and extensive coverage of our trade and investment data has demonstrated how statistics have helped users; better understand the impacts of coronavirus and EU Exit, build collaborative partnerships with other countries for the purpose of making new trade deals, assess key research topics such as supply chains.
Join us for this ONS webinar with the Climate Change Coordination and Analysis team, in collaboration with the Integrated Data Service Dissemination team. It will showcase the latest version 2.0 of the UK Climate Change Statistics Portal, which launched on 27 October 2022.
At this seminar you will hear from Daniel Arribas-Bel who is a Professor in Geographic Data Science at the University of Liverpool, and Deputy Programme Director for Urban Analytics at the Alan Turing Institute. Daniel will be presenting on "Making it easy for regional scientists to consider (urban) form & function".
'CEO Dashboard'. Present monthly business performance to your CEO in a world-class, dynamic, and flexible dashboard. Ready dashboard, just plug your data. More: https://www.bizinfograph.com/dashboard-templates/50
Tuesday 28 June, W3 - Sector self regulation and improvement - George Garlick lgconf11
This session will focus on the early lessons emerging from the implementation of the sector owned approach to self regulation and improvement – with a particular emphasis on the practicalities and benefits to be gained from sharing and comparing key performance data and the contribution peer challenge and support can make to improvement, in this case in regard to children’s services.
Speakers:
David Simmonds, London Borough of Hillingdon
George Garlick, Chief Executive, Durham County Council
Janette Karklins, Director of Children’s Services, Bracknell Forest Council
Chair: Cllr Jill Shortland, Vice Chair, Improvement Programme Board, LG Group
A one-day event which discussed how the cost of living is affecting the UK economy and what this means for different households, informed by the range of statistics that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) produces.
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
On 22 March ONS released this year's housing affordability ratios for local authorities. In this webinar, we discussed:
- The long-term and emerging patterns in the data
- The data quality of this year's figures
- The impact of covid-19 on the estimates
We'd be interested in hearing your feedback on the estimates, especially if you or colleagues are involved in the Local Housing Needs or Housing Delivery Target process.
At the same time ONS has been enabled (and challenged) to produce new tables, visualisations and analyses which we'll showcase, such as:
- Census 2021 housing topic report and maps
- Purchase affordability (household income based affordability, for Scotland, Wales, England and its regions)
- Private rental affordability (for NI, Wales, England and its regions)
- Energy efficiency of housing (down to LSOA level, for England and Wales)
- Cost of Living research, by tenure (national)
We talked about future ONS housing releases, and some of the range of new country-level cost of living analyses.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk
Welcome to the monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature ‘State of the Economy’, providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.
Restarting the regular updates of the Measuring National Well-being dashboard in August 2022 celebrates not only, over 10 years since its creation, but its developments to date. This includes publishing alongside GDP and Climate change insights for the first time to more holistically measure progress in the UK. This milestone gives us an opportunity to reflect on the changes to society during this time and the original 34,000 responses which fed into its design and creation.
With an opening address by Sir Ian Diamond, the National Statistician, this event will launch a consultation to review the measures included in the dashboard and how we communicate these insights.
Welcome to the monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature ‘State of the Economy’, providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.
This half day virtual event was opened by ONS senior leaders, offering their perspective on ONS ambitions for business statistics.
Attendees will hear updates from the producers of key UK business surveys, data, statistics and projects, including:
Annual Business Survey (ABS)
Annual Purchases Survey (APS)
Business Enterprise Research and Development (BERD) survey
Government Research and Development (GovERD) survey
Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS)
Regional Gross Domestic Product
Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) and transformation to the Statistics Business Register (SBR)
Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and other linked business microdata
Secure Research Service (SRS) and transformation to the Integrated Data Service (IDS)
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
In recent months, the ONS Data Science Campus has published data and insights on feasible travel at a hyperlocal level and rail schedule disruptions at every station in Great Britain. We are currently scoping the need for further work in this area, which may include topics such as reliability, cost, international comparability, and the type and quality of services accessible. In this webinar, we present existing work and gathered user needs from local institutions for data and statistics in this area.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk.
The ONS hosted our global first trade and investment user event. Over the last few years, feedback and extensive coverage of our trade and investment data has demonstrated how statistics have helped users; better understand the impacts of coronavirus and EU Exit, build collaborative partnerships with other countries for the purpose of making new trade deals, assess key research topics such as supply chains.
Join us for this ONS webinar with the Climate Change Coordination and Analysis team, in collaboration with the Integrated Data Service Dissemination team. It will showcase the latest version 2.0 of the UK Climate Change Statistics Portal, which launched on 27 October 2022.
At this seminar you will hear from Daniel Arribas-Bel who is a Professor in Geographic Data Science at the University of Liverpool, and Deputy Programme Director for Urban Analytics at the Alan Turing Institute. Daniel will be presenting on "Making it easy for regional scientists to consider (urban) form & function".
'CEO Dashboard'. Present monthly business performance to your CEO in a world-class, dynamic, and flexible dashboard. Ready dashboard, just plug your data. More: https://www.bizinfograph.com/dashboard-templates/50
Tuesday 28 June, W3 - Sector self regulation and improvement - George Garlick lgconf11
This session will focus on the early lessons emerging from the implementation of the sector owned approach to self regulation and improvement – with a particular emphasis on the practicalities and benefits to be gained from sharing and comparing key performance data and the contribution peer challenge and support can make to improvement, in this case in regard to children’s services.
Speakers:
David Simmonds, London Borough of Hillingdon
George Garlick, Chief Executive, Durham County Council
Janette Karklins, Director of Children’s Services, Bracknell Forest Council
Chair: Cllr Jill Shortland, Vice Chair, Improvement Programme Board, LG Group
Socrata’s suite of financial transparency apps combine a familiar, intuitive interface with powerful search and multi-faceted visualization capabilities. Built on the Socrata platform and delivered as turnkey cloud services, they can be deployed in minutes, ready for use from anywhere, and updated automatically. These applications are designed to enable
• Enable better decisions with visualizations
• Drastically reduce administrative and production costs
• Encourage community self-service and discover
Closing plenary: the future of public sector websites #BPCW11Headstar
Closing plenary: 'The future of public sector websites', at Building Perfect Council Websites 11, 14 July 2011 #BPCW11 Speakers: Paul Davidson and Ingrid Koehler
The slide deck for the Power Platform Presentation in SQL Saturday Redmond 2019. We have reviewed the power Platform Components, why is it better together and how to make it happen. During the demo all the options of implementation between the Power Apps and PowerBI were demonstrated. Including the data visualization changes with new data feed. Use some of the following ideas in your organization and POC's for more complex implementations.
Data Visualization Trends - Next Steps for TableauArunima Gupta
Want answers to:
- What is data visualization?
- Why is it deemed disruptive in the field of analytics?
- What is Tableau?
Come view the slide deck!
Concludes with:
- Digital strategy recommendations for Tableau to become the winner in a winner-take-all-market
Visualizing Healthcare Data with Tableau (Toronto Central LHIN Presentation)Stefan Popowycz
This is the presentation I gave to the Toronto Central LHIN about using Tableau to visualizing healthcare metrics (April 16 2013). I also have a section on how Information Design best practices can be leveraged in order to effectively communicate your key messages to your end users.
Analysis of data, evolution of BI and an introduction to Power BI
About this Event
Overview:
To be data-driven requires an overarching data culture that couples several elements, including high-quality data, broad access, data literacy and appropriate data-driven decision-making processes.
In this session, Iman decodes the analysis of data, evolution of BI and an introduction to Power BI.
Presentation Value/Learning Points:
Decoding Data Analysis and what does Business Intelligence entail?
The evolution of BI and role of an analyst
Analysis lifecycle
Introduction to Power BI
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
On 28th June 2022, Census 2021 released their first results, followed by data covering eight topics and more recently launched a new ‘Create a custom dataset’ tool. We will take you through a tour of the products such as census maps, build a custom area profile, create your own custom dataset tool and pre-built tables, as well as census analysis plans and how you can carry out your own analysis using census data.
This event is open to all, however we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working at a local level on Census data or on any Census topics.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk
This presentation covers the key question: Why dashboards? Local authorities and other public bodies have largely ended publishing reports and now produce dashboards. What are the factors that have contributed to this change?
This is the first presentation from our Workshop on 21 September 2023 on Dashboards, APIs and PowerBI.
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to promote evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful workshops which will provide practical, technical support to help users make the most of ONS data. The Cross-Government Data Science Community brings together data scientists and analysts to build data science capability across the UK governments and public sector.
We are delighted to welcome you to our inaugural Workshop in our new series, entitled: 'How to use APIs'. The session will cover what Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are, the advantages in using them and a practical demonstration of how they can be used. The journey of two Local Authority analysts as they begin using APIs in place of manual processes will be showcased to the audience. The session will conclude by explaining the plan for the forthcoming series of Workshops that will begin in September and introducing the Slack channel that ONS Local and Cross-Government DS community will be using to support users' technical questions going forward.
This event is open to all; however, we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working at a local level on creating data dashboards for internal or external use.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk.
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to promote evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful workshops which will provide practical, technical support to help users make the most of ONS data. The Cross-Government Data Science Community brings together data scientists and analysts to build data science capability across the UK governments and public sector.
We are delighted to welcome you to our inaugural Workshop in our new series, entitled: 'How to use APIs'. The session will cover what Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are, the advantages in using them and a practical demonstration of how they can be used. The journey of two Local Authority analysts as they begin using APIs in place of manual processes will be showcased to the audience. The session will conclude by explaining the plan for the forthcoming series of Workshops that will begin in September and introducing the Slack channel that ONS Local and Cross-Government DS community will be using to support users' technical questions going forward.
This event is open to all; however, we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working at a local level on creating data dashboards for internal or external use.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk.
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to promote evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful workshops which will provide practical, technical support to help users make the most of ONS data. The Cross-Government Data Science Community brings together data scientists and analysts to build data science capability across the UK governments and public sector.
We are delighted to welcome you to our inaugural Workshop in our new series, entitled: 'How to use APIs'. The session will cover what Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are, the advantages in using them and a practical demonstration of how they can be used. The journey of two Local Authority analysts as they begin using APIs in place of manual processes will be showcased to the audience. The session will conclude by explaining the plan for the forthcoming series of Workshops that will begin in September and introducing the Slack channel that ONS Local and Cross-Government DS community will be using to support users' technical questions going forward.
This event is open to all; however, we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working at a local level on creating data dashboards for internal or external use.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk.
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
From 1 August 2019, the Secretary of State for Education delegated responsibility for the commissioning, delivery and management of London’s Adult Education Budget (AEB) to the Mayor of London. The AEB helps Londoners to get the skills they need to progress both in life and work. The overarching aim of London’s AEB is to make adult education in London even more accessible, impactful and locally relevant.
In this presentation, the Greater London Authority will be going through the results of the pioneering 2021/22 London Learner Survey (LLS). The survey’s objective is to gain insight into the outcomes of learners to inform and improve policy. The LLS consists of two linked surveys of learners who participated in GLA-funded Adult Education Budget (AEB) learning in the academic year 2021/22.
In the LLS, Learners are surveyed prior to and 5-7 months after completing their course to estimate the economic and social changes that learners experience following an AEB course.
In particular, the presentation will show the economic impact broken down by:
. Progression into employment
. Progression within work
. Progression into further learning.
The social impact will be explored by looking at changes in:
. Health and wellbeing
. Improved self-efficacy
. Improved social integration
. Participation in volunteering
The presentation will also cover how outcomes vary by funding type, breaking down the results by Community Learning and Adult Skills.
This event is open to all; however, we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working at a local level on skills, education and employment.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk.
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
Education and qualifications have been included as a separate analysis topic in Census for the first time in 2021. In this presentation the Census 2021 Education Analysis team will go through the results from the first two publications in their Analysis Plans, focusing on their impact and use for local authorities and other local users.
In the first publication published on 17th February 2023, 'How workforce qualification levels differ across England and Wales', the analysis looked at qualifications in the workforce population (adults aged 16 years and over who are economically active). The piece focused on trends across local authorities, exploring themes including the North-South divide, coastal towns and regional inequality.
The second publication examines the variations in the levels of qualifications that people hold by their country of birth. This includes establishing patterns across UK geographies for international migrants.
The session included live demonstrations of the interactive maps used in the publications, and how the data can be used by local authorities.
This recording is open to all, however we anticipate it will be of most interest to anyone working at a local level on skills, education and employment.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk
Public Policy Analysis Forums hosted our second Annual Crime and Justice Statistics Forum, which provided users of crime and justice statistics an opportunity to engage with experts, share insights and discuss the future of our statistics and foster future collaboration.
ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics and analysis at the ONS and across other organisations.
The High Street Data Service is a partnership project between the Greater London Authority, London Boroughs and local organisations. Using a subscription model, it gives shared access to detailed footfall, spend, premises and context data to inform decision making, prioritisation and investment plans. In addition to central purchasing, processing and sharing of up to date data, it offers a package of support including workshops, self-service tools, data-surgeries and a professional network.
Now entering its third year, the GLA team will talk about the different types of analysis, as well as how the programme has developed, what they’ve learned and future plans.
If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk
What is the point of small housing associations.pptxPaul Smith
Given the small scale of housing associations and their relative high cost per home what is the point of them and how do we justify their continued existance
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
Many ways to support street children.pptxSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
Canadian Immigration Tracker March 2024 - Key SlidesAndrew Griffith
Highlights
Permanent Residents decrease along with percentage of TR2PR decline to 52 percent of all Permanent Residents.
March asylum claim data not issued as of May 27 (unusually late). Irregular arrivals remain very small.
Study permit applications experiencing sharp decrease as a result of announced caps over 50 percent compared to February.
Citizenship numbers remain stable.
Slide 3 has the overall numbers and change.
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
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ONS Local presents Suffolk County Council's Cost of Living Dashboard
1. The Cost of Living
Creating an interactive dashboard for Suffolk
Rebecca Allen & Alex Garwood
Public Health & Communities,
Suffolk County Council
September 2023
2. In April 2022, Suffolk County Council published a Cost of Living profile as part of
the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA).
The profile, Making ends meet: The cost of living in Suffolk was used as the
evidence base to support Suffolk County Council’s Tackling Poverty Strategy and
Action Plan
Regular updates were required for councillors, the Health and Wellbeing Board,
the Collaborative Communities Board, and the wider system.
Recognition that written reports can quickly become out of date so there was a
clear need for accessible, self-service, up-to-date Cost of Living data to support
the Suffolk system
Public Health team tasked with developing an interactive data dashboard, as part
of the JSNA, accessible to the whole of Suffolk County Council, system partners
and members of the public
Context
3. Aims of this session:
01
Show some of our
Cost of Living
dashboard
02
Give an overview of
the data sources used
03
Explain how we
maximised
opportunities for
automation
04
Discuss how the
dashboard is used
locally
05
Talk through some
examples of how the
data has been used to
drive action and
create impact
4. Key aims of the dashboard
A frequently updated source of both local and national data and
intelligence
An interactive tool allowing users to focus on areas most relevant
to them
To highlight inequalities across Suffolk and areas of need
A source of actionable insight to support the system with data and the
evidence base needed to drive change, and really make a difference
5. Our tool of
choice….
Power BI was one of the
tools used by the team for
COVID-19 data analysis and
reporting as part of Suffolk
CoronaWatch
Skill and ability levels
developed at pace during
the pandemic
Allows data to be shared
securely and appropriately,
in line with information
governance arrangements
Flexible, user-friendly, easy
for a less technical
audience to navigate
Data from multiple sources
can be brought together
e.g internal data with
national open source data
Low maintenance and easy
to refresh with new data
Why Power BI?
6. Features of the Cost of Living Dashboard
Collaborative
Automated
Self
Service
Place-focused
Live
Data is
published at
Lower Tier
Local Authority
level, where
available, and
at lower
geographies
where
possible, such
as Lower Super
Output Area.
Most data
sources have
automated
connections
e.g. inflation
statistics and
employment
data, meaning
there is no
manual
intervention
required to
update the
data.
Local data
updates are
provided by
colleagues
updating their
own records/
spreadsheets,
such as the
Local Welfare
Assistance
Scheme,
Citizens Advice
and website
data, which the
dashboard
automatically
‘reads’.
Making the
report publicly
available puts
data at the
fingertips of
colleagues,
system
partners and
members of
the public
alike.
The dashboard
is a living
report which is
updated
regularly. New
data sources
can be
incorporated,
and analysis
developed over
time.
12. So now you’ve seen the dashboard, let’s talk about how we built it…
Stat
Xplore
API
•Universal Credit
claimants
•Children in low
income
NOMIS
API
•Weekly pay
•Employment rate
ONS API
•Excess mortality
LG
Inform
Plus API
•Crime
Static
URL
•Inflation
•House Prices
•Private Rental
Market
‘Piggy
back’
data
•Citizens Advice
•Free School
Meals
•Foodbanks
•Local Welfare
Assistance
Manual
update
•Family spending
•Fuel poverty
•Homelessness
•Fuel prices
•Job postings
Data Sources Key
Automated update
Updated by third party data owner with automated connection to Power BI
Manually updated by Analytics team
Report
Scheduled
refresh
Power BI Dataset
Data
sources
13. Automation techniques
LG Inform Plus Use the Data tool on the LG Inform Plus
website to build a data table
Use the Download tab to get a link to access
the data from Power BI including your public
private key
Static web URL
Go to the website hosting the data source of
interest (such as ONS) and find the required
data file
Copy the link of the data file to access the
data from Power BI
StatXplore Use the Table View page on StatXplore to
build a data table
Use the Download Table function and select
the Open Data API Query to get the JSON
request for the data to use in Power BI
SharePoint data
Go to the SharePoint site hosting the data
source of interest and find the required data
file
Copy the link of the data file to access the
data from Power BI
Embedding HTML Go to the website holding the content you
wish to embed and copy the embed code
Set this code as a value in a data table, then
use this value in a HTML Content visual
ONS API Go to the ONS developer website and follow
the instructions to build a query
Add this query into the Power BI dataset
14. Let’s have a
look at the
dataset in
more detail...
Dataset Demo (please view the session recording to see the demo)
15. So how has the Cost of Living data helped to turn insight into action?
Frequently used as a
briefing tool for VCSE
leaders, Health &
Wellbeing Board and
Collaborative
Communities Board to
facilitate planning and
proactive action
Data used to underpin
Suffolk’s successful Public
Mental Health bid for
£150k to support Citizens
Advice offices
A year after first
publication, the
dashboard was still the
3rd most visited page on
Healthy Suffolk with over
1,000 unique viewers in a
6 month period.
Instrumental in securing
£1.5m from the Suffolk
Public Sector Leaders
Forum in order to
support the Food
Network
Provided the evidence
base for the Suffolk
County Council Poverty
Strategy and Action Plan
Impact of the Cost of Living report and dashboard
16. If you only take away five things from our demo this today…
• Bring internal data together with other organisations’ data, and even national open source data can
highlight inequality and areas of need
The power of bringing data
together
• Colleagues may already be collating data you need – with the right information governance, it’s possible
to tap into and use these sources. Experience of C-19 has opened up cross system data sharing
opportunities.
• Collaboration is also important for gathering soft intelligence and adding context.
Importance of collaboration
• None of our team have an IT background or formal training in coding.
• However, we have sought support from IT professionals, colleagues in other LAs, and the Suffolk Office
of Data & Analytics
You don’t need to be a coder
• Dashboard creation is an investment of resources, but can save time in the long run by automating
updates and making data accessible for those able to self-serve, including members of the public, the
media, and colleagues.
Dashboards can save you time
• Dashboards are popular right now but it’s key that consumers are able to interpret the contents, apply
the intelligence to their area of focus, and make informed decisions.
• They can be iterative to incorporate new data sources – the current version is never the final version!
Turning data into actionable
insight is key
17. Suffolk County Council
Public Health & Communities
Knowledge, Intelligence & Evidence
Analytics
www.healthysuffolk.org.uk
Follow us on Twitter @SCCPublicHealth
Contact us:
phc_analytics@suffolk.gov.uk
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Published 06/09/2023