Title: Profiling local areas: deprivation and its relationships with local needs and priorities
What is it you want to achieve/solve?:
• Focus on a key, local strategic issue or priority (such as crime reduction, or improving public health) and:
o Test and demonstrate how, through using open data standards, we can find smarter ways of bringing together and visualising data from multiple (national and local) sources
… which can then….
o Enable councils and their delivery partners to reduce cost and complexity of acquiring and re-using data from multiple sources; and
o Provide powerful new insights into local issues and priorities, or improve engagement with service customers and citizens.
• This challenge will involve blending and combining the Indices of Deprivation with other public sector sources. The aim is to show how this combined source can improve understanding of policy issues, and the impact local services and priorities inside and outside of deprived localities.
Who is the audience?:
Local Authority strategic planning, performance management, and lead officials for individual service lines
Partners – e.g. voluntary or charity organisations
Service customers and local residents
What data sets are available/needed?:
1) Indices of Multiple deprivation – API available here http://opendatacommunities.org/. See also data.gov.uk blog post here (http://data.gov.uk/blog/guest-blog-post-open-data-at-dclg-%E2%80%93-the-english-indices-of-deprivation-and-more%E2%80%A6 )
2) Unemployment claimant and other job market statistics from NOMIS - API available here - http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/api/v01
3) Crime stats at street and neighbourhood level – see Police API here http://policeapi2.rkh.co.uk/api/docs/
4) Local Authority evidence sources – to be determined based on the issue or priority selected for this challenge
What are the apparent barriers to realisation (if any)?:
1) Lack of consistent, robust standards for blending and combining data from multiple sources
2) Cultural and technology challenges around incorporating new standards and publishing techniques in existing IT systems
3) Convincing and persuading software vendors (e.g. commercial suppliers of performance management and benchmarking tools) to change their products and incorporate new standards
Submitted by :
Steve Peters / Bill Roberts
Mentor: *
Steve Peters / Paul Davidson
Comments (5)
Hi, just wanted to add that you can find documentation on the API we're using to serve the IMD here - http://publishmydata.com/api
On datasets for use in the challenge, I'd like to add the LinkedData geographic sets from Office of National Stats (here - http://statistics.data.gov.uk) and Ordnance Survey (here - http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/.html)
Hi. Interesting to see that NOMIS has now added new geographies based on Indices of Deprivation. The task of retrieving claimant count and other data for deprived areas just got easier. For more info, please see this NOMIS article - https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/587.aspx
To help with mapping the indices of deprivation, we've prepared a set of KML files for boundaries of the LSOAs. They are available at http://lsoa_boundaries.s3.amazonaws.com/lsoa_boundaries/E01000001.kml (replace 'E01000001' with the appropriate LSOA id of course).
This is our first stab at making these boundaries available - will be interesting to hear from people at the event what format or tools would make the mapping and visualisation process as easy as possible.
This sounds great. http://mapit.mysociety.org/ is another great resource for kml boundaries and provides some apis too.
I've now fixed a problem with our first version of LSOA boundary KML files (thanks Mark Painter for pointing it out) and have also moved them to the main opendatacommunities server, instead of Amazon S3. So fixed versions of the files are available at
http://opendatacommunities.org/lsoa_boundaries/E01000001.kml etc