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Industry news and comment, from practical tips for publishing open data to inspiring accounts of how open data has changed businesses.
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What has linked-data ever done for us?
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
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
An introduction to using Tableau Public with the Environment Agency Bathing Water Quality linked data…
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Summer Internship experiences
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
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
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?
Linked data is an approach to publishing and sharing data on the web.
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UK HOUSE PRICE INDEX (UKHPI)
The UK House Price Index (UKHPI) data service that we’ve built for the Land Registry has gone live today (14th June 2016). The UK House Price Index (HPI) uses house sales data from Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, and Land and Property Services Northern Ireland and is calculated by the Office of National Statistics. The…
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Updated BATHING WATER SERVICE
The Environment Agency’s updated Bathing Water Quality service with data explorer, widgets and linked data service has gone live today (9th May 2016), ready for the 2016 bathing water season. Client: ENVIRONMENT AGENCY Case Study: www.epimorphics.com/casestudy/bathing-water/ Service: https://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/
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FLOOD WIDGET
The Environment Agency’s new flood warning widget has gone live today (8th April 2016). The flood warning widget allows you to embed the Environment Agency’s live Flood Warnings onto a page on your website. The widget shows the latest summary of flood alerts and warnings. Read more on this project: www.epimorphics.com/casestudy/river-level-and-flood-monitoring/