The Culture, Media and Sport Committee have launched an inquiry into cyber security following the recent cyber-attack of TalkTalk’s website. This will focus specifically on TalkTalk as well as more generally on privacy and regulation online. The website will have committee minutes and reports available to the public. Information Commissioners Office has issued a statement […]
Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog
Grant Thornton Health and Wellbeing Index.
Released this week a major new report which considers a local place based approach for improving health and wellbeing. It has analysis of the correlation between the economic, social and environmental health determinants and the health outcomes both the determinants of ill health and health outcomes for 324 Local Authority Areas in England. For further […]
Eurobarometer site upgrade
European Commission has recently revamped the Eurobarometer website. If you have not visited it before Eurobarometer is a great place for tracing free high quality cross-national comparative surveys of citizens from European nations. The first survey was held in 1974 and focused upon inflation. It is possible to download all the surveys and their accompanying […]
The Counted
The Counted launched by the Guardian newspaper to provide the public with statistical data about people killed by the police in the USA. It is possible to search by name, age, gender, ethnicity and state.
NarcoData
A new data visualization tool created by Mexican digital news site Animal Politico and data journalism platform Poderopedia, which aims to provide a visual mapping of drug cartels and organised drug crime in Mexico. At the moment 4 years of data seems to be available. All information is offered in Spanish.
Malala
Released this week, He Named me Mala, the inspirational documentary on the young Nobel prize winner See her historic speech to the United Nations on their YouTube channel also available are films of C-Span appearances. Times Documentary 2012 Class dismissed which featured her school. And read her 2009 blog.
Fuel poverty and cold homes
Fuel Poverty and Cold homes is worse in Britain than in other European nations according to a ranking by the Association for the Conservation of Energy. It provides analysis of energy prices and the quality of housing stock. The UK government website provides free access to official definitions of fuel poverty plus annual reports on its […]
Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD) online platform
…from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) University of Maryland. This provides an online mapping of the inter-relations (in person or online) between 50 key terrorist organisations since 1998. For instance see this entry on al-Qaeda Se also the Start global terrorism attacks database which has information and […]
Government Defence Anti-corruption Index
New from Transparency International an international ranking of governments worldwide whose defence policy expenditure is at high risk from corruption. It measures lack of accountability and possibly supply of weapons from / to ISIS. Topics covered include: legislative scrutiny of defence policy and legislation of procurement. A detailed methodology is provided.
Cuts and austerity
What do the British public think of the cuts and austerity policy? Latest research from IPSO Mori shows 43% think public services are worse than 5 years ago but only 23% say they have been directly effected by spending cuts down from over 33% in 2012.
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