Ahmad Barclay, Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Visualising local insights: census and beyond

Over the past several years, the UK has been publishing an increasing volume of official statistics for local authorities and smaller area geographies. However, the ability to navigate, visualise and comprehend this data has largely been the preserve of technical specialists. This talk will explore how the digital content innovation team at the ONS sought to break down these barriers for Census 2021 data, covering projects including ‘Census maps’, ‘Build a custom area profile’, and localised ‘How your area has changed’ articles. The talk will also look at how the experience of census is informing their ongoing work on the Explore Local Statistics service, which seeks to provide localised insights from a wide variety of annual, quarterly and monthly datasets from across government.

Bio: Ahmad Barclay is an architect, UX designer and coder who currently heads up the Advanced Formats and Data Dissemination team at the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Previously, he led award-winning infographics and visual storytelling projects as a founding partner with Visualizing Impact, and initiated Palestine Open Maps, an open data project supported by Mozilla and Creative Commons. Ahmad has contributed to a variety of publications, and facilitated courses and workshops based on his projects and practices in Beirut, London, Lisbon, Amman and Bangalore.

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