lg inform plus learning day training session
TRANSCRIPT
LG Inform PlusA series of screen images to
simulate the interactive Learning Days run during 2015
Tim Adams: Programme Managerrev: April 2015
Objectives for the session
• Explain the background and vision
• Demonstrate the new product
• Encourage you to use it:– to adopt the standards in your own organisation– for viewing prep-prepared material– tailoring and building your own material– sharing the information by a variety of channels
Agenda – 1 (the building blocks)
• Background / objectives / take-up
• The Landing Page
• Tools & content available
• Information Sharing Standards
• Context & performance reporting with drilldown
Agenda – 2 (Light touch use)
• Small Area Reporting - simple components
• Public small area reports
• Small area geographies
• Creating and using natural neighbourhoods
Agenda – 3 (Report authoring)
• Entering report edit mode
• Adding simple components
• Adding simple text narratives
• Adding fixed text tokens
• Adding relative text tokens
Agenda – 4 (Other tools)
• Direct data feed via an API – application programmable interface)
• Records retention guidance tool
• Powers & Duties guidance tool
• Open data tools
• Conclusions & other questions
Agenda – 1 (the building blocks)
• Background / objectives / take-up
• The Landing Page
• Tools & content available
• Information Sharing Standards
• Context & performance reporting with drilldown
Why have we done this?
• Severe financial pressures– Productivity through deconstruction of performance– More sophisticated techniques than the past
• Dismantling of previous infrastructures– the demise of the Audit Commission– sector move to self regulation & re-wiring public services– look at industry standards and methods– offer coordinated facilitation not an imposition
• Transparency Agenda– legislation advancing on public right of access to data– reduce freedom of information work loads– how do we make data transparent?
Information Management
• Based upon the esd-toolkit programme which first appeared in 2001
• Sector-led creation of information sharing standards to aid knowledge creation and data sharing
• Local Government Business Model sets out the semantics
• Open Data inventories, schemas and validation tools promote easier data publication
• Performance and context reporting tools• Direct data feed via an Application Interface (API)• Records management tools linked to legislation
@LGInformPlus
Self financing – subscriptions led
• Four subscriptions bands based upon organisation size:– Large Councils - £2260pa – Counties, large unitaries, mets– Medium Councils - £1450pa – Medium unitaries, mets– Small Councils - £735pa - Districts– Fire Authorities - £525pa
• This funds:– Online services and resources– Core small programme team and support service– Events and engagement– New developments– Information standards
@LGInformPlus
Agenda – 1 (the building blocks)
• Background / objectives / take-up
• The Landing Page
• Tools & content available
• Information Sharing Standards
• Context & performance reporting with drilldown
http://www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus
http://www.esd.org.uk
local.gov.uk/lginformplus
Agenda – 1 (the building blocks)
• Background / objectives / take-up
• The Landing Page
• Tools & content available
• Information Sharing Standards
• Context & performance reporting with drilldown
standards.esd.org.uk
esd-standards: http://standards.esd.org.uk
esd-standards: Functions List
esd-standards: Functions List
esd-standards: drill down to service
See links to other controlled lists
Metrics related to Functions
esd-standards: “care” related metrics
esd-standards: http://standards.esd.org.uk
esd-standards: links to available tools
Invoke LG Inform large area reporting
Invoke LG inform Plus small area report
Agenda – 1 (the building blocks)
• Background / objectives / take-up
• The Landing Page
• Tools & content available
• Information Sharing Standards
• Context & performance reporting with drilldown
local.gov.uk/lginform
Practice break. light small area metrics• Look at the standards pages and small area metric-
types• Try downloading the list into a spreadsheet
• Choose some of interest and look at what tools are available
• Create and download a map, chart or table, download it and (if you can) paste it into a MS Word document – REMEMBER TO SIGN IN
• Try an LG Inform report and see if you can drilldown – remember to choose a small area metric
Agenda – 2 (Light touch use)
• Small Area Reporting - simple components
• Public small area reports
• Small area geographies
• Creating and using natural neighbourhoods
reports.esd.org.uk
Public Access view (signed out)
Signed in view
Column Sort
collection makes predominance map
single metric makes intensity map
Very narrow & very tall
Practice break. More complex bars• Practise with any of the features we have covered
OR• Produce a sorted bar chart of vertical bars for the
top 30 wards in you area plotting obesity in adults against binge drinking in adults
• Is there a correlation? Are there any wards that break the trend?
• If you can place this component graphic into MS Word
Agenda – 2 (Light touch use)
• Small Area Reporting - simple components
• Public small area reports
• Small area geographies
• Creating and using natural neighbourhoods
Public Access view
Signed-in Access view
http://www.local.gov.uk/web/guest/health-and-wellbeing-boards/-/journal_content/56/10180/6111055/ARTICLE
Practice break. Public Reports• Practise with any of the features we have
covered
OR
• Find and view some public reports for your area of interest.
• Create a pdf version or a word version (via rft)
• Look at different areas or different wards
Agenda – 2 (Light touch use)
• Small Area Reporting - simple components
• Public small area reports
• Small area geographies
• Creating and using natural neighbourhoods
neighbourhoods.esd.org.uk
Let’s create a natural neighbourhood
• Council Area: BLACKPOOL
• Subject: Tourist Impact Areas
• Logic: All wards or output areas connecting with the beach area
Practice break. Neighbourhoods
• Practise with any of the features we have covered
OR
• Try creating a natural neighbourhood type and areas for your area.
Agenda – 3 (Report authoring)
• Entering report edit mode
• Adding simple components
• Adding simple text narratives
• Adding fixed text tokens
• Adding relative text tokens
Home page
cursor hover
Save
Stop edit
Add text
Add table
Add bar
Add pie
Add map
Add location map
STOP EDIT RETURNS TO “SAFE” MODE
ENTER “EDIT” MODE
Agenda – 3 (Report authoring)
• Entering report edit mode
• Adding simple components
• Adding simple text narratives
• Adding fixed text tokens
• Adding relative text tokens
Lets move legend to the left side
Practice break. Basic report creation
• Practise with any of the features we have covered
OR
• Start up a new report of your own.
• How about adding a bar chart of Life expectancy at birth for males and then for females?
• A pie chart of household tenure?
• A map of population by ward?
Agenda – 3 (Report authoring)
• Entering report edit mode
• Adding simple components
• Adding simple text narratives
• Adding fixed text tokens
• Adding relative text tokens
A simple text narrative
ABOUT THE AREAHere is a breakdown of Pendle giving the area, population size and gender split of each Ward. In terms of area, Pendle is ranked 6 out of the 12 Districts within the Lancashire County (the largest area has the highest ranking), and is ranked 7 out of all 18 Districts in North West.
The total area of Pendle District is 16,936 hectares. The Ward with the largest area is Boulsworth, representing 25.88% of the total area of the District.
The most densely populated Ward is Walverden with 55.80 persons per hectare, the least densely populated Ward is Higham and Pendleside with 0.60 persons per hectare.
@LGInformPlus
http://bit.ly/1FqNaAS
A simple text narrative with variables
ABOUT THE AREAHere is a breakdown of Pendle giving the area, population size and gender split of each Ward. In terms of area, Pendle is ranked 6 out of the 12 Districts within the Lancashire County (the largest area has the highest ranking), and is ranked 7 out of all 18 Districts in North West.
The total area of Pendle District is 16,936 hectares. The Ward with the largest area is Boulsworth, representing 25.88% of the total area of the District.
The most densely populated Ward is Walverden with 55.80 persons per hectare, the least densely populated Ward is Higham and Pendleside with 0.60 persons per hectare.
@LGInformPlus
http://bit.ly/1FqNaAS
A simple text narrative with variables
ABOUT THE AREAHere is a breakdown of Pendle giving the area, population size and gender split of each Ward. In terms of area, Pendle is ranked 6 out of the 12 Districts within the Lancashire County (the largest area has the highest ranking), and is ranked 7 out of all 18 Districts in North West.
The total area of Pendle District is 16,936 hectares. The Ward with the largest area is Boulsworth, representing 25.88% of the total area of the District.
The most densely populated Ward is Walverden with 55.80 persons per hectare, the least densely populated Ward is Higham and Pendleside with 0.60 persons per hectare.
@LGInformPlus
http://bit.ly/1FqNaAS
Types of text token
Default is wrong – we want number of districts in the county
NO! This is the lowest density !
Practice break. Text Tokens
• Practise with any of the features we have covered
OR
• Start up a new report of your own
OR
• Make a copy of the shared report and try creating text tokens
http://bit.ly/1FqNaAS
Agenda – 3 (Report authoring)
• Entering report edit mode
• Adding simple components
• Adding simple text narratives
• Adding fixed text tokens
• Adding relative text tokens
Practice break. Relative Text Tokens
• Try creating a simple report of one text component that using relative text tokens to show this sentence
• {child-area-short-label} is a child of {parent-area-short-label} is a child of {ancestor-1-short-label} is a child of {ancestor-2-short-label}
Text token
Agenda – 4 (Other tools)
• Direct data feed via an API – application programmable interface)
• Records retention guidance tool
• Powers & Duties guidance tool
• Open data tools
• Conclusions & other questions
LG Inform / LG Inform PlusThe technical environment
LA indicator data
Centrally gathered indicator data
esd-toolkitIntermediate
database
Indicator (validated
original and derived) data
Indicator data for validation
Other esd and 3rd party
licensed data
3rd party app
3rd party app
3rd party app
ONS
Open data
Open Linked Data
esd-standards
spend
projects
data.gov.uk
legislation.gov.ukOrdnance
Survey
Web Service methods
Ontology
Original data
Public data used by Inform
Data optimised for Inform
KHub desktop
inform App
Inform user
settings
KHub
Upload
Download
http://stark-fortress-7714.herokuapp.com/
http://stark-fortress-7714.herokuapp.com/
http://stark-fortress-7714.herokuapp.com/
api.esd.org.uk
All LA Typesin JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
All MetricTypes
Agenda – 4 (Other tools)
• Direct data feed via an API – application programmable interface)
• Records retention guidance tool
• Powers & Duties guidance tool
• Open data tools
• Conclusions & other questions
What is the retention guidance?
The records retention guidance is information that guides English councils on:•types of records that could be kept to comply with Section 12 of the Lord Chancellor’s Code of Practice on the management of records and to meet likely business needs•How long those records might be kept
Where can you find the guidance?
Full guidance
at http://retention.esd.org.uk/
or from the LG Inform Plus
home page at:
www.esd.org.uk
Records Retention
Where can you find the guidance?
For a single function or service
via esd standards
http://standards.esd.org.uk/
• Find the function or service you are interested in• Click on the ‘tools’ option• Choose the ‘records retention tool
Retention guidance• Looking at guidance online
• Downloading guidance to create your own schedule• Guidance as open data• Getting help
Retention guidance - filter
Retention guidance - search
Retention guidance - detail
Retention guidance - download
Retention guidance - data
Retention guidance - help
Agenda – 4 (Other tools)
• Direct data feed via an API – application programmable interface)
• Records retention guidance tool
• Powers & Duties guidance tool
• Open data tools
• Conclusions & other questions
What is ‘Powers and duties’?
Powers and duties is a list of the things which legislation either:•Requires a local authority to do (duty)•Allows a local authority to do (power)
The ‘powers and duties’ list was put together by esd in conjunction with Kent County Council legal services.
At present it only refers to primary legislation (Acts of Parliament) and generally not secondary legislation (Statutory Instruments or SIs)
Where can you find powers and duties?
List at: http://id.esd.org.uk/list/powersAndDuties
Full guidance
at http://retention.esd.org.uk/
or from the LG Inform Plus
home page at: www.esd.org.uk
Records Retention
Where can you find powers and duties?
For a single function or service
via esd standards
http://standards.esd.org.uk/
• Find the function or service you are interested in• Click on the ‘tools’ option• Choose the ‘Powers and duties’ tool
Powers and duties - filter
Powers and duties - search
Powers and duties - detail
Powers and duties - download
Powers and duties - data
Powers and duties - help
Agenda – 4 (Other tools)
• Direct data feed via an API – application programmable interface)
• Records retention guidance tool
• Powers & Duties guidance tool
• Open data tools
• Conclusions & other questions
Making local data useful• Councils need to be compare with one another
• Innovators need to build apps cost-effectively
Hence we offer standards for:
• what we call things• format of open data
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URIs - Uniform Resource Identifiers
Codes that give precise definitions of things, eg:
• http://id.esd.org.uk/service/860 – premises licence service
• http://opendatacommunities.org/id/unitary-authority/york York City Council
• http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/statistical-geography/E06000014 York area - from ONS
These normally resolve to descriptions with properties that are human and machine readable
URIs resolved - service
standards.esd.org.uk
URIs resolved – local authorities
opendatacommunities.org
URIs resolved – statistical geographies
statistics.data.gov.uk
URIs resolved – natural neighbourhoods
neighbourhoods.esd.org.uk
Schemas defining data formats
• Inventory schema for a list of all open datasets published by one council
• Individual schemas for each dataset – indexed against the Service and Function lists
What the scheme sets out to do• Provide useful data – responding to common requests
• Keep it as simple as possible for councils• Enable data users to accurately interpret data and
aggregate it across councils
Hampshire
Durham
Sevenoaks
Leeds
Craven
Westminster
Any council
The inventory schema
• Automatically harvested by data.gov.uk in beta
• Automatically output by DataShare DKAN and CKAN may follow
• Can be uploaded to and validated by esd-toolkit• Indexes datasets and their schemas against functions and
services
Inventory
Dataset Documents
ODF, PDF, HTML
Data
CSV, XML, ...
Dataset Documents
ODF, PDF , HTML
Data
CSV, XML, ...
inventory.esd.org.uk
Dataset schemas• Define the structure of data for a service or
function (group of services)
• Shared to allow (not mandate) consistency – share yours!
• Some validated schemas encouraged
• Formats:– Tabular: DataShare definitions and CSV validation files as
used by the ODI’s csvlint.io– XML– Linked data profiles
opendata.esd.org.uk
Agenda – 4 (Other tools)
• Direct data feed via an API – application programmable interface)
• Records retention guidance tool
• Powers & Duties guidance tool
• Open data tools
• Conclusions & other questions
LG Inform is……..
• ‘The LGA’s free data service which presents you with up-to-date published data about your local area and the performance of your council.
• Whether you’re interested in scrutiny, a portfolio area or simply need an overview, LG Inform can help you review and compare performance with other authorities’.
Key Information – LG Inform
• About us: www.local.gov.uk/about-lginform
• LG Inform: www.lginform.local.gov.uk
• Help and support: – Log-in assistance: [email protected]– Support: [email protected]– General enquiries: [email protected]
• LG Inform Knowledge Hub Group– https://knowledgehub.local.gov.uk/group/lginform
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