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      Read more about the article How to make your first graph in Flourish

      How to make your first graph in Flourish

      • Post last modified:January 3, 2025
      • Post category:Data Visualisation
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      Want to start creating your own data visualisations? Flourish is a great (mostly) free tool for turning your datasets into great looking graphs and charts. It's pretty simple to get…

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      Read more about the article Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 3/1/2025 – #FOIFriday

      Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 3/1/2025 – #FOIFriday

      • Post last modified:January 3, 2025
      • Post category:Freedom of Information
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      The FOI Act turned 20 on Wednesday (January 1). As is traditional at this time of year, we'll be marking it with a bumper round up of FOI stories that…

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      Read more about the article Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 20/12/2024 – #FOIFriday

      Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 20/12/2024 – #FOIFriday

      • Post last modified:December 20, 2024
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      It's a bit good news/bad news FOI-wise this week. Martin Rosenbaum scored a tribunal victory. It ordered the release of the secret citations former prime minister Boris Johnson sent to…

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      Read more about the article Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 6/12/2024 – #FOIFriday

      Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 6/12/2024 – #FOIFriday

      • Post last modified:December 6, 2024
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      Nobody fights a three-year FOI battle for the clicks. A couple of weeks ago, FOI Friday covered the Romford Recorder's battle to get a report into a dossier of racism…

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      Read more about the article Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 29/11/2024 – #FOIFriday

      Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 29/11/2024 – #FOIFriday

      • Post last modified:November 29, 2024
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      Don't make FOI officers dig through your cat memes to get to the information related to the FOI request. Speaking at Holyrood’s Freedom of Information 2024 event at Verity House…

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      Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 22/11/2024 – #FOIFriday

      • Post last modified:November 22, 2024
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      Good news, the Harry Kane statue has finally found a home. After five years in storage, it was unveiled by the player himself in Waltham Forest this week. FOI plays…

      Continue ReadingFreedom of Information in the news – week ending 22/11/2024 – #FOIFriday
      Read more about the article Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 1/11/2024 – #FOIFriday

      Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 1/11/2024 – #FOIFriday

      • Post last modified:November 1, 2024
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      FOI question of the week via Tim Turner: is information about a cupboard personal data? Background: The Sunday Times, back in 2022, reported on a custom built wardrobe placed in…

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