Branded and Generic medication compared
According to the Office of Health Economics for the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), the total medicines bill in the UK was £13.6 billion in 2011 and £10.8 billion of this was...
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There are 211 clinical commissioning groups (CCG’s) across England dispensing a range of medications every day. These CCG’s have demographic factors that could affect how much medication is dispensed....
View ArticleHorizon 2020–Project TIMON
ScraperWiki are members of a new EU Horizon 2020 project: TIMON “Enhanced real time services for optimized multimodal mobility relying on cooperative networks and open data”. This is a 3.5 year...
View ArticleCivil Service People Survey – Faster, Better, Cheaper
Civil Service Reporting Platform The Civil Service is one of the UK’s largest employers. Every year it asks every civil servant what it thinks of its employer: UK plc. For Sir Jeremy Heywood the...
View ArticleHenry Morris (CEO and social mobility start-up whizz) on getting contacts...
Henry Morris Meet @henry__morris! He’s the inspirational serial entrepreneur that set up PiC and upReach. They’re amazing businesses that focus on social mobility. We interviewed him for...
View ArticleGOV.UK – Contracts Finder…£1billion worth of carrots!
Carrots by Fovea Centralis /CC BY-ND-2.0 This post is about the government Contracts Finder website. This site has been created with a view to helping SMEs win government business by providing a...
View Article6 lessons from sharing humanitarian data
This post is a write-up of the talk I gave at Strata London in May 2015 called “Sharing humanitarian data at the United Nations“. You can find the slides on that page. The Humanitarian Data Exchange...
View ArticleHighlights of 3 years of making an AI newsreader
We’ve spent three years working on a research and commercialisation project making natural language processing software to reconstruct chains of events from news stories, representing them as linked...
View ArticleRunning a code club at DCLG
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has to track activity across more than 500 local authorities and countless other agencies. They needed a better way to handle this diversity...
View ArticleLearning to code bots at ONS
The Office for National Statistics releases over 600 national statistics every year. They came to ScraperWiki to help improve their backend processing, so they could build a more usable web interface...
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