The first big task that
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 10:52 am
Having said that, a lot of my work at the GLA is still aimed at the general public, and we spend a lot of time thinking about how we can serve their needs better by making improvements to the London Datastore, which is our main data portal. For example, I was asked to complete after I joined the GLA was to audit all of the rcs data malaysia datasets which my team was maintaining on the London Datastore, and to work out how the ones which we wanted to keep on maintaining could be reorganised to make them more accessible to our users.
Rather than only publishing analysis in traditional formats, such as PDF reports (which tends to be the way we publish our research at IF), the GLA Intelligence Unit is also increasingly pushing the London Datastore in new directions by incorporating a larger amount of interactive content – such as our interactive mapping tool for exploring local variations in Covid-19 mortality across London – which enable the end user to the play around with the data and draw their own conclusions from it.
Contrasts
In contrast to the work which I do for IF, a lot more of my work at the GLA is focused on generating impact within the wider analytical community, both inside and outside the GLA itself.
Rather than only publishing analysis in traditional formats, such as PDF reports (which tends to be the way we publish our research at IF), the GLA Intelligence Unit is also increasingly pushing the London Datastore in new directions by incorporating a larger amount of interactive content – such as our interactive mapping tool for exploring local variations in Covid-19 mortality across London – which enable the end user to the play around with the data and draw their own conclusions from it.
Contrasts
In contrast to the work which I do for IF, a lot more of my work at the GLA is focused on generating impact within the wider analytical community, both inside and outside the GLA itself.