BHLIS online (Brighton and Hove Local Information Service) provides partnership members access to a wide range of national and local statistics and indicators relating to Brighton & Hove at many different geographic levels.

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The "Bremen neighbourhood atlas“ offers a great variety of city-wide, district-based information. Contents include social, demographic and macro-economic data. Upon each inquiry, users are presented with a map, a table and two graphics, which allows direct comparisons of districts and/or analyses of temporal changes. Diverse tools, such as the option to highlight districts of interest, and an intuitive interface allow for detailed and customized searches as well as easy menu navigation. In the end, the user is never more than a few simple clicks away from the desired information.

The Bristol City Council Corporate GIS Support team are using InstantAtlas Server to deliver a Local Information System; http://profiles.bristol.gov.uk/ , which provides a resource for the council and Bristol Partnership to share intelligence, through maps, atlases, statistical reports and dynamic reports about life in Bristol and its neighbourhoods.

A number of exciting new developments are taking place with a number of new profiles and dynamic reports being added. Current profiles include, Quality of Life, Population, Crime, Census, Education and Health.

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The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services provides a range of support to drive positive change in the delivery of children's services, and ultimately out comes for children, young people and their families.

View C4EO Data with the following InstantAtlas Server Modules: Data Views, Advanced Data Views, Area Profiles and Advanced Area Profiles

Our latest Cambridgeshire Atlas shows the expenditure and income of 21 Output Area Classification (OAC) groups. Each OAC group represents a distinct section of Cambridgeshire's communities. Data from the Living Costs and Food Survey (LCF) 2008 is presented to get an indication of the spending habits of Cambridgeshire's diverse communities. The LCF, formerly known as the Expenditure and Food Survey is an amalgamation of the Family Expenditure and National Food Surveys. These surveys have been collecting data upon Britain's spending and food consumption since the 1950's. The Office for National Statistics is responsible for overall management of this invaluable supply of economic and social data.

A total of 5271 households took part in the 2008 survey across Great Britain. The Office for National Statistics validate and adjust the data by using weights. They also append the social classification Output Area Classification (OAC) to the data. This helps us to gain a greater knowledge concerning the expenditure of differing sections of our society. The data therefore applies at a national level but the use of OAC allows us to provide local intelligence for the county.

The Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (COICOP) system has been used to classify expenditure on the LCF. COICOP is the internationally agreed classification system for reporting household consumption expenditure within National Accounts. Having an international standard classification facilitates greater consistency between countries in the collection and presentation of data.

Under COICOP expenditure is categorised into Living_Costs_and_Food_Survey_2008 twelve headings, for the Cambridgeshire Atlas one category (Alcohol and tobacco) has been divided for more insight. They are listed below:

1. Food & non-alcoholic drinks

2. Alcoholic drinks

3. Tobacco

4. Clothing & footwear

5. Housing (net), fuel & power

6. Household goods & services

7. Health

8. Transport

9. Communication

10. Recreation & culture

11. Education

12. Restaurants & hotels

13. Miscellaneous goods & services

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For more information on the Living Costs and Food Survey use the following links:

Living Costs and Food Survey website:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=361&Pos=&ColRank=2&Rank=512

Living Costs and Food Survey full report:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_social/Family-Spending-2008/FamilySpending2009.pdf

InstantAtlas Server provided the ChiMat team with an adaptable solution for managing and presenting quantitative data that was inexpensive and quick to implement. We were able to purchase the software and go live within three months. It was easy for our web designer to brand the InstantAtlas Server mini-site to match the ChiMat site. The highly interactive atlases delivered through the Data Views module are more engaging than static images. They allow users to explore our data and provide answers leaving our team to focus on more complex queries. The needs assessment modules we have produced through the Profile Reports module will make individuals within PCTs more productive by reducing the time it takes to produce needs assessments with local data.

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The Local Government Data Unit Wales (the Data Unit) is part of the local government family in Wales. Originally the Data Unit was set up in 2001 to help local authorities and the Welsh Assembly Government use data more effectively so that they are able to understand local priorities and improve the services they provide to the people of Wales. The mission hasn’t changed but the focus is now more on local government.

Meeting the need
To meet the need for an online information system geared to its key personas, the Data Unit launched its national InfoBase service in June 2009 (InfoBaseCymru). Several Welsh local authorities were keen to have their own mini sites based on InfoBaseCymru. The first local site, InfoBaseCaerffili, was therefore launched as a pilot at the same time as InfoBaseCymru, thus creating the InfoBase service.

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"The powerful visuals in InstantAtlas enable us to communicate the issues clearly with all our audiences. We can analyse local service provision versus targets and easily graph these to make our lobbying assertive and more effective. People with diabetes can also quickly see how their locality is performing."

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Profiles created using InstantAtlas provide a summary of demographic and related data for each ward in Greater London. The profiles are designed to provide an overview of the population in each area by combining a range of data on the population, diversity, households, life expectancy, housing, crime, benefits, land use, deprivation, and employment.

Gareth Piggott, says: “We are going to be using InstantAtlas more and more. A good example of this is the ongoing project called Focus on London. Rather than having a 200 page report that is produced every year, we will be releasing one chapter per month with interactive mapping on our website. This means we will have a new InstantAtlas report every month.”

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“We are using InstantAtlas for presenting regional health statistics in Finland. Our goal is to provide a balanced overview of the population's health, which is useful for health policy planners and decision makers in the districts and municipalities.

Our pilot site 'Terveytemme' (literally 'Our Health') presents the first set of health indicators. While the number of indicators in the InstantAtlas report is still quite limited, it has already received positive feedback from several directions.”

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The new internet presentation of state health reporting which was launched on September 15, 2008 is a dynamic product. Its contents will be continually extended and updated and the structure modified where appropriate.

This atlas was created to show the housing completion in Ireland by displaying the cumulative percentage increase in housing completion numbers between 1994 and 2008 by administrative area.

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This atlas was prepared for the newhamINFO Team of London Borough of Newham to present nationally ranked scores of multiple deprivation at small area level. The report uses our Performance Profile template which is ideal for presenting data of this kind - nationally consistent ranks of multiple domains related to deprivation. The bars of the bullet graph (top right) illustrate how varied the cross-domain profile of deprivation can be at a neighbourhood scale. The background grey bars indicate how areas rank nationally in terms of fifths (quintiles) with bars overlapping the darkest grey sections being classed in the 20% most deprived of all areas nationally.

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The National Centre for Health Outcomes Development (NCHOD) is a unique national resource in the UK concerned with all aspects of health outcomes assessment.

Funded by the Information Centre for health and social care, NCHOD produces the online Clinical and Health Outcomes Knowledge Base, including the Compendium of Clinical and Health Indicators. This is an extensive resource used predominantly by local authorities and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to help them direct public health resources effectively in their regions, to save lives.

Director of NCHOD, Dr Azim Lakhani is in no doubt that the Compendium combined with InstantAtlas makes a difference to UK health and to saving lives. He said: "Aided by InstantAtlas, what we are now able to do on a much wider scale and much more clearly, is show people where there might be a problem. This allows them to target resources effectively.”

North East Lincolnshire Informed is an interactive resource which provides access to key statistics and information about our area. Information contained within the site can be viewed through a range of tables, reports, graphs and maps using the following InstantAtlas Server modules: Data Views, Profiles and Explorer

This report shows the estimated A8 population migration map to Northern Ireland. The A8 countries are listed as: Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Solvakia and Slovenia.

To create this report NISRA used the Single Map Template.  For more information on the Single Map click here, for a video tutorial on the Single Map Template click here.

See also NISRA 2011 - Assembly election results atlas 

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The National Obesity Observatory e-Atlas is an interactive mapping tool for the analysis of data on the prevalence of obesity and its determinants for local authorities in England.

Caroline Ridler, Senior Public Health Intelligence Analyst explains why NOO chose InstantAtlas: “The National Obesity Observatory needs software that is easy to use. The fact that we can use an InstantAtlas template out-of-the box saves us time and helps us to display a lot of complex data in a simple and accessible format”.

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These profiles provide statistics for individual neighbourhoods and even wards within a District area. These statistics help paint a picture of the local area in which people live, or people wish to find out more about.

The profiles will help North Yorkshire County Council and its partners when planning services to make sure they are taking local variation and local needs into consideration.

The Community Safety Profile will contain information on feelings of safety, levels of crime of different sorts, including anti-social behaviour and disorder and drug-related offences, accidents in homes, at work and on the roads and fire safety.

Community Safety Indicators

The following indicators are provided in the online interactive InstantAtlas profile (at the stated geographic levels).

Crime - (Locality/Service Area)
Anti-Social Behaviour - (Locality/Service Area)
Criminal Damage - (Locality/Service Area)
Place Survey Your Local Area/Anti-Social Behaviour/Local Public Services/Community Safety - (Locality/Service Area)

"We selected InstantAtlas for ease of creating neighbourhood maps and graphs, intuitive ease-of-use, speed of operation, affordability and expected ease of implementation and integration with the council's ESRI tool-set."

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Sharing public data

What is Profiling Stockport?

Profiling Stockport Live is an information sharing and reporting site for Stockport which is used for a variety of purposes including area profiling, statistical visualisation, performance management, and neighbourhood monitoring. The data in the Profile has come from a number of sources: Census information, the Indices of Deprivation, health data, educational data, housing data and local data from service providers, such as take up of Welfare Rights advice. The data is updated on a regular basis and new data can be added.

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Topic | Using a Local Information System (LIS) to address needs of Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)

Empowering local communities to make better decisions

Rochdale Borough Councils’ Research & Intelligence Team is part of the Policy & Research Team in the council’s Performance & Development Service. Its main function is to provide research and intelligence to the council, LSP partners, the voluntary sector and members of the public.

The team provides data, analysis, mapping and outcome information across a range of partner organisations. This intelligence provides evidence of need, neighbourhood analysis and information provision on disadvantaged groups. This ensures that the LSP continues to use a sound and coherent evidence base for policy. Read more about Rochdale Stats and Maps...

This map shows the neighbourhoods (or Lower Super Output Areas), coloured according to the 2009 Mosaic household groups.  Mosaic segments the country's households into fifteen groups (A to O), which can be seen in the map. The spine chart shows the proportion of each group represented within the selected area.  By default the Borough profile is displayed.  Click an area to change the selection. Double-click to open another. 

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How was this dynamic report created?

The Area Profile Template was used to create the report which combines a single map, table, spine chart and bar chart for data display. Indicators in the spine chart are arranged vertically in a scrollable list. This chart enables at a glance analysis across a range of indicators for a selected area. It makes the comparison of profiles for different areas quick and easy.

Find out more about the Area Profile Template

Watch a video on how to use the Area Profile Template 

The new online maps for Schleswig-Holstein make it possible for different audiences to gain a quick overview of the structure and trends in each district. The data presented will be updated on regular intervals.

The 34 most important indicators are visualized under four major themes: population, income, education and economics, as well as tourism and land-use.

“The reaction to my report was positive and in the first year we started to tackle information sharing by creating a protocol. We then started to build the virtual network of individuals who wanted to share and provide the information,” says Lyn Baran, Group Manager Business Development, Suffolk County Council

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"InstantAtlas offers the Tower Hamlets Partnership a best practice, 'off-the-shelf' neighbourhood information system that provides value for money and integrates well with core LBTH IT infrastructure from Microsoft and ESRI. It will be key to supporting a framework for managing and reporting local performance outcomes across our Local Strategic Partnership and Local Area Agreement. The InstantAtlas team has demonstrated a sound knowledge of our data and technical requirements and has delivered a solution meeting our key requirements within our tight deadlines."

The Waltham Forest data point allows users easy access to a wide variety of statistics on several themes. Datasets on various areas such as the economy, deprivation and education can easily be selected by various local geographies and viewed or downloaded as tables, graphs and maps.

"InstantAtlas provides a cost-effective, quick and adaptable tool which needs no underlying software and can be updated with new data with minimal effort. It also provides a much more intuitive interface when compared with GIS. Overall, we would give a recommendation for organisations with similar needs to consider using InstantAtlas.

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