Helping users find data faster with taxonomies
We’ve added taxonomies to Cantabular, enabling search filtering functionality for ready-made tables and helping users find the data they need faster.
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Mike Thompson
Blog posts by Mike Thompson
Automating publication of the 2021 Northern Ireland Census
The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) has launched a new product, a “Flexible Table Builder”, allowing users to create their own outputs from the 2021 Northern Ireland Census, powered by our software Cantabular.
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Mike Thompson
Webinar: Publishing census data twice as fast with the ONS
On 27th April, we hosted a webinar to present our recent work with the ONS helping them to automate the publication and aspects of the privacy protection for the 2021 England and Wales census.
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Mike Thompson
Publishing census data twice as fast with the ONS
Earlier this week, ONS released their Create a custom dataset product for census 2021, powered by our software Cantabular, helping the ONS release billions of statistics far more quickly than ever before.
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Mike Thompson
Internationalisation and right-to-left language support in Cantabular
A couple of years ago, we added the capability to localise data and user interfaces in Cantabular for different languages.
While our core data service handles data only in a single language, our metadata service supplements this by allowing labels and other reference metadata to be loaded in multiple languages so that all metadata for populations, variables and categories can be translated.
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Mike Thompson
Flexible publication of metadata with GraphQL
Last year we added a new capability to Cantabular to allow dissemination of structured metadata alongside real-time creation of safe, cross-tabulations from large datasets that the rest of Cantabular focuses on.
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Mike Thompson
Exploring automated output checking with OpenSAFELY
Over the summer months, we had a few conversations with the interesting folk at the University of Oxford DataLab who have been building OpenSAFELY—an open source, transparent platform for secure analysis of electronic health records—to see if we could integrate our automated output checking capability into their systems, to help speed the process of release of research outputs.
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Mike Thompson
ICES conference video: Using Cantabular to explore and visualise company data
We recently attended the International Conference on Establishment Statistics. We had an interesting time hearing about some of the challenges statistical organisations, particularly in the US, have with protecting and disseminating establishment data and the move to differentially private methodologies.
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Mike Thompson
Republishing the historic 1911 Irish census as an interactive dataset
Today we are releasing a new public website that makes the returns from the 1911 Irish census available as a preliminary statistical release to be queried by anyone.
All kinds of cross-tabulations and analysis of this data that were previously impossible are now easily accessible as open data through our user interface and API.
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Mike Thompson
Irish Census 1911: Data collection and processing methodology
This document describes the scope, methods, assumptions and limitations of the work that The Sensible Code Company and collaborators have collectively completed on historical Ireland census data, collected from The National Archives of Ireland’s website, in order to publish a publicly available interactive dataset at https://ireland-census-preview.cantabular.com.
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Steven Maude
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Mattie Phillips
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Aidan McGuire
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Mike Thompson
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Peter Hynes
Automating disclosure checks with our Disclosure Rules Language
Last week we released a new version of Cantabular with a big new feature: a disclosure rules language.
The disclosure rules language, or DRL, is a tool to help statisticians automate decisions about table publication which they might previously have made using manual analysis techniques.
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Mike Thompson