A website for graphing datasets from the Office of National Statistics.
This is a port of my original Python version, onsstat. Code for retrieving the data, parsing it and populating the database is all there.
The ONS has an extensive set of wonderful datasets covering a wide range of economic and social data. Unfortunately, there was no easy way to search or view this data. Searching for 'unemployment wales' would return a large number of datasets but no information about the individual data they contained. Data on, for instance, manufacturing might be indexed by 'manufacturing' or perhaps simply 'manuf', but there is no way to view datasets for both together, or to discover 'manuf' without having studied the 33 thousand CDID names. To view the data, each dataset must be downloaded, the CDID identifiers deciphered, and the results plotted. Data is repeated over and over for each CDID, but not all data for a CDID is a repeat, and there is no alternative to examining many - often dozens - of datasets to attain a complete picture.
This website is designed to change that.
The data from all ONS datasets has been parsed and aggregated, much redundancy has been eliminated, and CDID names can be searched in a fast and intuitive manner. Data can be plotted and compared instantly.