[open-civil-society] Cuts data

Mon Aug 8 17:14:10 UTC 2011

Hi - you'll probably have seen the cuts research we released today.

At the risk of being a self-publicist we've also released a "data
appendix" spreadsheet that contains all the source data we used in
creating the report. You can find a link to the spreadsheet here:
http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/cuts-report#dataappendix

I guess a wider point is that I often find we're releasing this kind of
analysed data regularly, and apart from just putting up excel
spreadsheets (though probably should be using open spreadsheet files!)
I'm never sure of the best way of making them "open".

I think it's different to "raw" data, like the charity commission
register for example, because a CSV file can't show you the sructure of
the data correctly, with lots of small linked tables. So I'm never sure
if there's a better alternative to producing a big excel file.
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