No subject

r>
back to the original raw data sources you've used, which is what you&#3=
9;re<br>
doing in the spreadsheet. You might event want to think about including<br>
a list of all the datasets you used just as a separate section on the<br>
page - so that your &#39;Data Appendix&#39; shows the context you&#39;ve us=
ed the<br>
data in, and links to &#39;raw data sources&#39; helps people head off to<b=
r>
explore that data in context.<br>
<br>
It will be interesting to see if any coverage/use of the report picks up<br=
>
on the data appendix - and who the users are - as I suspect it won&#39;t<br=
>
just be data-geeks who are interested in the content (lots of people<br>
after the raw numbers and facts, as well as ways of mashing-up and<br>
visualising the data...)<br>
<br>
All the best<br>
<br>
Tim<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:14 PM, David Kane &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:David.Kane=
@ncvo-vol.org.uk">David.Kane at ncvo-vol.org.uk</a>&gt;<br>
wrote:<br>
<br>
<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Hi - you&#39;ll probably have seen the cuts=
 research we<br>
released today.<br>
<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0At the risk of being a self-publicist we&#39;ve also releas=
ed a<br>
&quot;data appendix&quot; spreadsheet that contains all the source data we =
used in<br>
creating the report. You can find a link to the spreadsheet here:<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/cuts-report#dataappendix" target=3D"_=
blank">http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/cuts-report#dataappendix</a><br>
<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I guess a wider point is that I often find we&#39;re releas=
ing this<br>
kind of analysed data regularly, and apart from just putting up excel<br>
spreadsheets (though probably should be using open spreadsheet files!)<br>
I&#39;m never sure of the best way of making them &quot;open&quot;.<br>
<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I think it&#39;s different to &quot;raw&quot; data, like th=
e charity<br>
commission register for example, because a CSV file can&#39;t show you the<=
br>
sructure of the data correctly, with lots of small linked tables. So I&#39;=
m<br>
never sure if there&#39;s a better alternative to producing a big excel<br>
file.<br>
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