Hi everyone, we're Matt Jukes and Rob Fry from the UK Office for
National Statistics. We create data visualizations and data explorers
based on UK official data. Ask us anything!
Abstract
Matt Jukes: I have been called the ‘Ian Holloway of Digital Government.’
You may have heard of the ONS website’s reputation, or experienced it
for yourself - it’s my job to deliver a new site that changes those
perceptions. I promote open source, open data and am a little militant
with it comes to user research. We named our publishing system Florence,
as in Nightingale, but over time Magic Roundabout characters ruled the
roost in our app naming strategy. We even have a ‘Chris Giles test’ for
the site. Rob Fry: I am a self proclaimed data vis geek working at the
UK’s Office for National Statistics. I’m a trained statistician and love
all things D3. I look for ways to make government data useful or
relevant to people’s everyday lives. With my team I’ve created a pension
calculator to see how long your pension pot will need to last, a quiz to
challenge people perceptions of their own area, and lots of maps. I post
all of this on Visual.ONS which is the ONS sister website aimed at
non-experts just interested in data stories. Here’s proof that it’s us.
We’re here to talk with you about UK government open data, open source,
data visualization, or anything else. Ask us anything! That’s the end of
our AMA! Thanks guys for all your questions, really interesting
discussions and hope it was useful!