Feb 23, 2012
Matt Davies, GiGL Data Manager In the winter of 2008, we discussed how GiGL had been commissioned by the Capital Woodlands Project to help identify areas of London lacking street trees. In this article, we return to the subject but take a broader look at street trees...
Jul 1, 2010
Matt Davies, GiGL Data Manager In the winter 2009 issue of the GiGLer, I shared some novel visualisations of the GiGL database designed to help us all better understand the data we hold, whether they accurately reflect what’s on the ground, and where geographic or...
Jan 1, 2010
GiGL holds a lot of data. But what exactly does all that information represent? Matt Davies, GiGL’s Data Manager, is beginning to find out what lies beneath. Over the last few years the GiGL database has grown to become a considerable resource with approximately...
Jun 1, 2009
Matt Davies, GiGL Data Manager, on the benefits of our latest software upgrade. After considerable effort to install, accurately migrate data and develop the custom reporting we need for our day-to-day work, our Recorder 6 database is now up and running. Having...
Feb 1, 2008
Matt Davies, GiGL’s Data Manager, on how GiGL keeps track of your data, and identifies the holes in that data Metadata is data about data – it describes what is in a dataset, how it was created, the location to which data relates, and who to contact for access to that...
