The UK Data Service is delighted to announce the latest version of its UKDS.Stat data browser for international data. David Rawnsley, Application Developer for international data talks us through the hong kong rcs data new features, explains some of the ‘behind the scenes’ stuff and the rationale behind the new version and brings news about open data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
New Features for the User in UKDS.Stat version 7
Streaming downloads – Your data downloads will start much faster with version 7 – rather than waiting until all the data is collected from the UKDS.Stat database and sending you an email to let you know your data is ready for downloading, you can now start downloading your data straight away and because we are using http compression, that download is faster.
Developer APIs – UKDS.Stat offers access to an increasing number of datasets through a RESTful application programming interface (API) enabling calls to the API programmatically, for integration into programs and web sites. The API utilises the SDMX-JSON format. SDMX-JSON is an international format for statistical data and metadata, designed with ease of use for web developers to integrate data into web sites or web apps.