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Working with Floods data in QGIS
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An introduction to viewing flood monitoring station data in QGIS
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Open Data Camp with a Welsh flavour
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Open Data Camp continues to grow and and build a diverse open data community. I’m delighted that just before St. David’s Day it is visiting the Pierhead in Cardiff….
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Environment Agency Water Quality Archive (WIMS) update
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Yesterday we flicked the switch on a large date update to the Environment Agency’s Water Quality Archive (WIMS) service…
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What has linked-data ever done for us?
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In one of the more memorable scenes of The Life of Brian, John Cleese’s character Reg asks his assembled group "What have the Romans ever done for us?" Followed, as most people know, by a long litany of everything the Romans had indeed done for them.
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Data Autopsy by SPARQL – looking for things that don’t join up
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As we take data from different sources data quality issues are something that we have to look out for. This post is about the generic SPARQL queries we use to track down ‘dangling references’ and to develop some insight into the systemic causes of the breakage… a “Data Autopsy by SPARQL”
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Visualising Bathing Water Linked Data using Tableau
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An introduction to using Tableau Public with the Environment Agency Bathing Water Quality linked data…
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Summer Internship experiences
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I am a third year MEng Computer Science student at the University of Bristol and I have been working at Epimorphics for three months as a front-end developer Summer Intern between my second and my third year of University.
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CONFERENCE: TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
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At the end of the month in the heart of Westminster, is the annual Government ICT 2.0 conference. This year we are attending and supporting the conference’s data stream. If you want to chat about our work or interesting challenges and opportunities some of the team will be there through the day. See you on…
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Reference interval service
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When publishing statistics it is important to be able to reference the interval of time to which a particular statistic applies. This is important for individual entries in a statistical data set as well as for any metadata description that bounds the temporal scope of a dataset. In order to align statistical information that relates…
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What is linked data?
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Linked data is an approach to publishing and sharing data on the web.
