Over the past week I’ve been lucky enough to meet AppChallenge community members in Manchester and London at our #EULife Meetup series. It was great to meet people who are passionate about open data. I wish we had been able to travel further across Europe so if you’re not from the UK, please don’t think […]
Ralph Cochrane is the creator and founder of AppChallenge. Here he talks about what we do and our work on the #EULife AppChallenge.
Philip Rustemeier is our resident coding guru and helped to design the Open Data API. If you’ve watched our coding tutorials you’ll know his voice. We asked him why he enjoys working on projects like the #EULife Open Data contest.
Louise Corti is an Associate Director of the UK Data Service. She is our project supervisor. We asked her why Open Data is important to the UK Data Archive.
John Shepherdson leads the UK Data Service technical infrastructure team. They are responsible for running the servers that provide the first UK Data Service Open Data API which is the foundation of the #EULife AppChallenge. We talk to him about his day job, supporting 600+ datasets on a variety of different types of infrastructure and […]
Using the API Explorer we looked at a question from the Eurofound European Quality of Life Survey to study the Portugal open data about how easy people in Portugal were finding it to make ends meet, which means are households able to pay for what they need from their earnings. The answers were quite shocking. […]
We’re going to be creating a series of images that show statistics from the #EULife Open Data set using the API Explorer. It’s a great way to familiarise yourself with the data that’s in the Eurofound European Quality of Life Survey via the UK Data Service API. We’re look at the Greece Open Data question […]
One of the first things that you may want to do is just have a look at the #EULife dataset. Well that just got a lot easier thanks to Philipp Rustemeier who has put together this brilliant data explorer. You can see all of the data and run your own queries. To use it simply […]
Our #EULife AppChallenge is a competition, running from 1st July 2015 to 30th September 2015 to encourage you to develop innovative new apps using European Quality of Life open data that we have published with help from Eurofound and the UK Data Service. Our Open Data includes survey responses from across Europe (including all EU […]
In this short tutorial Ralph Cochrane & Philipp Rustemeier show you how to access and sign up for the UK Data Service Open Data API. We have made the European Quality of Life Survey from Eurofound (2007 & 2011) available via the UK Data Service Open Data API for free, but you’ll need to register […]
