Green spaces and biodiversity hold a wealth of importance in London. They are vital for conserving species, enhancing climate resilience, improving health and wellbeing, providing amenity space, and much more! Additionally, there are a wide range of sectors,...
Andy Foy, GiGL Systems Manager Data is dull, isn’t it? It’s just a load of facts and figures collected together, a series of ones and zeros that don’t seem to be worth paying much attention to. But when it is presented in the right way data really comes alive. It is...
Dragons are known to guard high security vaults at Gringotts Bank, Diagon Alley, London. Luckily they escape only very rarely, as is pictured here in 1998 (c) Harshlight CC BY 2.0 Benjamin Town, GiGL Community Officer Back in March 2019, the GiGL team were trying to...
Maria Longley, GiGL Communities Manager At the Open Data Institute Summit in November, I was struck by how many speakers said that people are not that interested in data but rather in the answers it can provide. Raw data is only ever going to be of interest to a small...
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...
