Information is Beautiful

Information is Beautiful

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...
Mapping Dragons

Mapping Dragons

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...
A New Vision

A New Vision

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...
Plugging the Gap

Plugging the Gap

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...
Making data count

Making data count

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...