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A self-indulgent aside
I’m struggling a bit at the moment so self-indulgent as it is I just needed to document the things I’ve done in the last couple of years that I am proud of to remind myself that I am not always quite as useless as I currently feel. So this is a reminder to Future Matt…
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Stats squared
Now I’m back from New Zealand (boo! hiss!), we have a new website (yay! phew!) and Andrew is inbound to take over the day-to-day evolution of the site (hallelujah!) I’ve been taking a bit of time to revisit some other ideas that have been rattling around in my head the last couple of years sparked…
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Kiwi Conversations
I’ve been in New Zealand (via Singapore) now for a few weeks. I came over to be part of the wedding of one of my close friends and if I am honest probably would never have made this rather intimidating trip otherwise. From afar New Zealand always looked like a beautiful country but the land…
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Humans.txt
I really wanted to add a /humans.txt file to the new ONS website but I never got around to it and then I ran away to the other side of the world for a bit. In lieu of doing it properly I just wanted to acknowledge everybody who made this site, that I am so…
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Register revision
https://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/23676705565/ Last week the FCO, in partnership with the Data team at GDS, launched the first official ‘register’ for country names. This is a big achievement and is a significant step in building up the reality of ‘data as infrastructure’ in the UK. A year ago though I wouldn’t really have understood why this was…