ONS Interactive Content

Just a quick post this time. Came across the interactive data sets that the ONS seem to be pushing quite a lot on their home page.

Some of them are excellent and very interesting. I particularly liked their flow maps. There are two that are quite interesting:

1. Internal migration - where do people move to within the England and Wales.
2. UK trade in services - how much is being exported and where to (within the EU).

I did something similar in Java recently whilst working on some Spanish data. What I did only shows distribution of data within the regions of Spain so not quite as flashy. I'll write it up soon, although it may take a while.

The interactive content on the ONS website is split into several sections including the recent census, economy, the labour market, people and places, population and migration and education.

All very exciting.