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ONS UK Climate Change
Statistics Portal
16 November
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ONS UK Climate Change
Statistics Portal
Welcome and Introduction
Chair – Jo Evans
Head of Analysis and Coordination, Environment Division
Office for National Statistics
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Agenda
13:00 – 13:10 Welcome and introduction of the background and objectives of the portal – Jo
Evans (Chair), Office for National Statistics
13:10 – 13:25 Progress: Demo of the new v2.0 Portal and Analytics and feedback since launch –
Bec Williams and Vicky Kent, Office for National Statistics
13:25 – 13:40 IDS-D team topics and Content Management System, Andrew Fergusson and
Ross Bowen, Office for National Statistics
13:40 – 13:45 Future ideas/aims/growth, IDS-D and Climate Change team, Office for National
Statistics
13:45 – 13:55 Q&A
13:55 – 14:00 Closing remarks – Jo Evans (Chair), Office for National Statistics
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Questions can be submitted via the slido app using code #22242.
You can also access slido via the link in the chat box.

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A cross-government project
• ONS Portal editorial and
secretariat
• Integrated Data Service
maintains and develops
the Portal
• Steering Group of
government departments
makes key decisions
• Wider Advisory Group
provides expert advice
and feedback
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Portal prototype presented at COP26 in Glasgow, 2021

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Progress: Demo of the
new v2.0 Portal and
Analytics and feedback
since launch
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Bec Williams and Vicky Kent
Analysis and Coordination team, Environment Division
Office for National Statistics

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Demo of the
Portal site v2.0
https://climate-change.data.gov.uk
Since then, we have achieved...
Re-launch: 27th October 2022
Refresh of design
More interactive data driven
charts
2 new indicators
Updates to dashboards
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User feedback since launch
Hotjar survey & widget
• Since launch: over 500 total sessions, 58%
new users
• 79.8% access via Desktop and 20.2%
via Phones
• 91.8% of UK visits, others include Malta,
Spain and United States
• Average session duration is 7 minutes
• Widget feedback shows an average rating
score of 4.5
• Survey shows users include
Other government departments, DAs, UKSA
/ OSR / ONS and Interested citizens. With
majority of users finding the information they
were looking for.
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Quotes & social media
“like the new portal design and layout
overall, well done”
“Amazing work!
👏”
Some fascinating, depressing,
data on climate change from
the brilliant people at Office for
National Statistics 🌍☀️⛈️”
“the presentation
and accessibility of the
data is really
exceptional, linking right
back to the data origin”
“So glad to see that the
success of the coronavirus
dashboard continues
to reverberate. More of this
sort of thing.”
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Keep in touch
Contact us at:
climate.change@ons.gov.uk

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IDS-D team topics and
Content Management
System
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Andrew Fergusson and Ross Bowen
Office for National Statistics

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Analysts 🤜🏻🤜🏾 Analysts
• We’re data geeks in the Integrated
Data Service Dissemination team.
• We love tidy data, which is data with
each variable in its own column, one
observation per row.
e.g. Wales, 1872, rainfall == 2018mm
• Our data sources are varied, but all
our data ends up as both CSV-W and
RDF, these formats support rich
metadata describing both the factors
and the dataset itself.

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The Integrated Data Service
Dissemination’s 5-Star Linked
Data uses existing standards — a
promise of interoperability. This is
Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision for
the Web.

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What is linked data?
year direction industry_classification trade_value
2019 Imports Crop and animal production, hunting
and related service activities
242000000
year industry_type emissions
2019 Products of agriculture, hunting and related
services
46677.5
Title: UK trade in goods by industry, country and commodity
Description: Experimental dataset providing a breakdown of UK trade in
goods by industry, country and commodity on a balance of payments basis.
Publisher: Office for National Statistics
"Crop and animal production, hunting and related service
activities"@en
"Cynhyrchu cnydau ac anifeiliaid, hela a gweithgareddau
gwasanaeth cysylltiedig"@cy
Title: Final UK greenhouse gas emissions national statistics: 1990 to 2019
Description: Final estimates of UK territorial greenhouse gas emissions.
Publisher: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
http://data.gov.uk/standard-industry-classification/2007/01
rdfs:label
• Linked data reuses shared definitions of concepts
across datasets.
• Common reusable concepts are geographies, time
periods, and trade classifications (e.g. Eurostat’s
Combined Nomenclature).
• Units and measures can be reused and extended to
describe methodology and/or scales (e.g. GBP
(hundreds of thousands) being defined so a machine
has explicit instructions to convert between GBP and
a multiple.)

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Tidying data
should happen
once
Download tidy data
Analyse
Distribute
• Tidy data is better for analysts but
not yet the default for
dissemination across government
• IDS Dissemination separates the
presentation (i.e. cross-
tabs/pivots, visualisations) from
the data
• This makes iteration and
improvements in the Climate
Change portal easier and faster

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Building linked data
The process of adopting linked data
best practice is iterative; benefits begin
with standardising on units, reference
time periods, and geographies. Check
out csvcubed’s documentation using
the QR code below.
Extract data from source
system
Export the data in CSV “long
tidy-data” format. Sources of
data can include Python or R-
based RAPs, Excel-based
analysis, or SQL databases.
Describe
Provide metadata describing the
data set and the columns in the
CSV. Link common dimensions
like geographic areas and time
periods.
If you are re-running your
pipeline and adding a new time
period of data, you don’t need to
re-describe your data – skip this
step.
Generate CSV-W
Use csvcubed to generate the
CSV-W, which can be used as-is
for automated analysis or loaded
into a graph database for
presentation using dashboards
or table viewers.
or

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How to get data
from Climate
Change
All our Source links under
every visualisation contains a
link to the data hosted on IDS
Data Explorer, from there you
can view the observational
data and download it as
CSV-W

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The data is the API, upon which we can build services

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Structured data informs services of
its meaning

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The content layer
• Reimagines the style and structure of statistical content, allowing analysts
to create engaging and catered releases, which stay up to date with the
latest data.
• Allows analysts across departments to collaborate with one another on
cross cutting analysis and jointly publish content on topical matters.
• Helps users discover insights on topical matters with cross government
sources, rather than statistics which are siloed by department.
• Produces modular and structured content, which can be mixed and
matched in different contexts to suit different audiences.
• Built from common and reusable components.

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Future ideas, aims,
growth, IDS-D and
Climate Change team
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Future developments and ambitions
• Review the statistical framework, updating and adding data
• Further user engagement
• Develop processes
• Testing 5* open data with own outputs
• ‘Whole IDS cycle’ for COP28
• Collaborations with partners
• Continue to help support publications such as our Quarterly
Climate Change Insights
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Q&A
Questions can be submitted via the slido app using code #22242.
You can also access slido via the link in the chat box.

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ONS UK Climate Change
Statistics Portal
Closing remarks
Chair – Jo Evans
Head of Analysis and Coordination, Environment Division
Office for National Statistics
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Forthcoming ONS economic analysis
16 November 2022 – Prices Theme Day (Inflation and the cost of living for household groups:
October 2022)
21 November 2022 – Equality across different areas of life in the UK: 2010 to 2020
1 December 2022 – Disaggregating UK annual subnational gross value added (GVA) to lower
levels of geography, 1998 to 2020
5 December 2022 – Self-reported long COVID and labour market outcomes
All information on upcoming analysis can be found via the ONS website
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Dates for your diary
17 November 2022 – Economic Data Science Seminar Series – Daniel Arribas-Bel
17 November 2022 – ESCoE Webinar – The New Wave: Technology Diffusion in the UK during the 2010’s
21 November 2022 – Regional Economic Forum – Darlington
1 December 2022 – ESCoE Webinar – Efficient Industrial Policy for Innovation: Standing on the Shoulders of
Hidden Giants
7 December 2022 – Regional Economic Forum – Wales
15 December 2022 – ESCoE Webinar – Capitalizing Data: A Case Study of Individual Credit Files
Further details on the above event and any upcoming events will be published at
ons.gov.uk/economicevents
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28.
Thank you for attending the
UK Climate Change
Statistics Portal
You can keep up to date on all upcoming events via
ons.gov.uk/economicevents
If you would like to ask a question or provide any feedback, please do so
via economic.engagement@ons.gov.uk