The top 10 government data visualisations and applications

ITO world worked with data.gov.uk statistics from the department for transport to show how lorries use our motorways Go to the site Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Long-term collaborators with the Datablog, Timetric is the place for time series numbers. The UK Office of National Statistics' 'Timezone' time-series dataset covers every aspect of British economic life. As a collection of tens of thousands of individual measurements - of inflation, employment, trade, retail, stocks, currency and commodity prices, and just about anything else imaginable. If you want to understand the British economy, all the data you need is here
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£289bn spent on this. £400bn spent on that. When money reaches this level it literally becomes mind- boggling. Yet these figures are regularly issued by the government - and the media - as if they are self-evident facts that everyone understands. Frustrated by this, David McCandless created The Billion Pound-O-Gram
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It searches as many local authority planning websites as it can find and emails you details of applications nearby. The aim of this to enable shared scrutiny of what is being built (and knocked down) in people's communities
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The really local paper. Enter postcode and gather information about your very small area, such as local services, environmental information and crime statistics
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UK House prices allows you to compare house prices across the UK. The house prices are the average median prices in the area and you can get information from 1996 onwards
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Proportion of the working age population claiming Jobseekers Allowance from the West Midlands regional ObservatoryGo to the site Photograph: Public Domain

The developer's developer, Hirst has taken transport data to show exactly how we travel
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Involving months of work, the Where Does My Money Go? project allows the public to explore data on UK public spending over the past 6 years in an intuitive way using an array of maps, timelines and graphs. By means of the tool, anyone can make sense of information on public spending in ways which were not previously possible
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iPhone apps from Elbatrop to find you the nearest dentist/pharmacist using data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre
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