David McCandless – driving force behind the Information is Beautiful site, gives an inspiring and thought provoking presentation on how intelligent, well designed data visualisations can help us understand the ever increasing information deluge. Moving quickly through discussions of current affairs topics such as American defence spending versus African debt, to more frivolous endeavours (looking at how Facebook status’s can...
We are looking forward to hosting our seminar The Possibilities of Real Time Data on Monday 19 April and still have some tickets left if anyone wants to attend. Its free so just email mailto:[email protected] if you want to come along. Paul Clarke will be moderating the Twitter Feed on the morning and anyone interested in joining the conversation can do...
Today’s announcement by TfL that they have lifted all restrictions on the commercial reuse of their data will come as good news to the developer community. There is no doubt that this will provide a welcome economic boost to London’s SMEs and individual developers. And according to Chris MacLeod, Director of Group Marketing at TfL, it’s just the beginning: “I hope...
Owing to overwhelming demand by apps that use the service, the London Underground feed has had to be temporarily suspended. We hope to restore the service as soon as possible but this may take some days. We will keep everyone informed of progress towards a resolution.
“Everywhere you look, the quantity of information in the world is soaring… Merely keeping up with this flood, and storing the bits that might be useful, is difficult enough. Analysing it, to spot patterns and extract useful information is harder still. Even so, the data deluge is already starting to transform business, government, science and everyday life. It has great...
The 2012 Games provide a useful opportunity to get people thinking about how accessible/inaccessible London is going to be in time for the games. So the release of TfL Data around the accessibility of stations is extremely timely. Collected by London Underground and represented in 17 different spreadsheets (currently being worked on for upload by Gareth Baker) they should contain...
It’s been a fairly hectic time since our soft launch of the London Datastore on 7th January which featured a live linkup (well mostly live!) with the CES technology conference in Vegas. We were delighted that the launch received such a positive response in both the developer community Mad Prof, Brian Hoadley, Chris Thorpe, Chris Osborne, Chris Taggart as well...
