Project Granite Blog - Using data to investigate the bedrock of Scotland’s communities

The William Grant Foundation part funded a project to analyse and correlate open data about Scotland’s places, in order to better understand the bedrock of Scottish communities - their characteristics, local assets, patterns of resource allocation and potential unmet needs.

One of the inspirations for this project was analysis of charity locations in England and Wales. The report found that the areas that might benefit most from charities contain relatively few. 

Working with CodeClan graduate, Elmar Rolling mapped open data tin Scotland and blogged about the research throughout. Find out more below.

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Final Reflections
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Project Granite is coming to an end. It’s been great working with Scotland’s open data to take a closer look at communities. We have gained a lot of insights, but these were not always what we expected.

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New Year, New Data
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I am continuing to analyse open data on Scottish communities. We couldn’t find some of the data that we wanted in an open source form, so we have been collecting it manually to add to the mapping.

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Checking out other data projects
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One of the aims of Project Granite is to produce insight into Scottish communities and places that does not already exist.

In order to make sure that we are not repeating others’ work, I have searched for similar projects that map features and services of Scottish places and communities. Thank you to everyone that shared links and referred us to other projects. I was really surprised by how many there were.

It is likely that I have not found them all, so if you know of a project that I have missed, please let me know. I have included a date and attribution statement where possible, and in other cases I have just linked to the relevant project.

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Using Python and pandas to get stuck in
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This blog gives insights into the progress of Project Granite, which is research supported by the William Grant Foundation and my mentor from CodeClan.

IBy live blogging about the research, readers can come on the journey open data with us and ask questions along the way.

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