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Whilst we wait for www.police.uk, a government-sponsored website competing in and crowding out a supposedly emerging open data marketplace, to have a full run of publicity – The Sunday Times yesterday, press today and tomorrow – pending a late release … Continue reading
Some of you have been asking when we will have the data ready on UKCrimeStats for the month of December 2011 – so were we ! Unfortunately, as 3rd party developers, we are beholden to the external release by Police.uk … Continue reading
Last week, for the first time, I actually used the QR code (Quick Response) scanner on my Blackberry and I belatedly realised what a great invention they are. No difficult and long urls – just scan and it takes you … Continue reading
Of course our site – www.ukcrimestats.com – is about British crime statistics, but we can’t ignore what’s happening in America. The big picture is that nationwide in the USA, crime has fallen a lot and continues to fall even through … Continue reading
We have just rolled out a new capability to UKCrimeStats – a unique page with monthly history for every street (see our streets page here) that has had a crime on it. Here is London’s Oxford Street – scene of … Continue reading
Last week, the Sunday Times used UKCrimeStats data – all of which in it’s raw form is freely available from Police.uk – to run a news feature entitled Austerity crimewave hits Britain. It was subsequently picked up by a number … Continue reading
A big news piece today in the Sunday Times today – Austerity crimewave hits Britain – who we worked with to compile the data about the austerity wave of crime across Britain. You may not have immediately realised from the feature … Continue reading
We now have 11 months of aggregated data on UKCrimeStats – a special thanks again to our Chief Data Architect for working to make this available asap. We have some new upgrades coming through shortly which we’re excited about too … Continue reading
I’m looking forward to talking in a couple of weeks time to some Sociology A-level students about UK crime, crime statistics and a host of related crime issues – one of which was crime related to gender. Do get in … Continue reading
This is a post I started writing back in June and parked for a bit. Now it’s very much back in the news. And just a couple of days ago, the Conservative Party set up this page for potential candidates … Continue reading