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	<title>Beacon Dodsworth</title>
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		<title>Is OpenData really free?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK has been at the forefront of having and using really high quality digital geographical data for a number of years. This has ranged from our Census every 10 years to address-based products like Royal Mail PAF data. The &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beacon-dodsworth.co.uk/blog/general-news/is-opendata-really-free/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=is-opendata-really-free</link>
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		<title>What about this Jeremy…?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t currently have a television but when I get the chance I watch Jeremy Clarkson and friends on Top Gear. Whilst they are very funny and I often can’t help laughing, as an environmentalist, it does make me shudder. &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beacon-dodsworth.co.uk/blog/general-news/what-about-this-jeremy/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=what-about-this-jeremy</link>
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		<title>Mapping voting patterns and demographics…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow&#8217;s a voting day for many councils in the UK so I thought I would investigate voting patterns according to our demographic classification, P2 people and places. I downloaded data from the Electoral Commission for the 2010 general election. After &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beacon-dodsworth.co.uk/blog/general-news/mapping-voting-patterns-and-demographics/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=mapping-voting-patterns-and-demographics</link>
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		<title>Posters in pizzerias could help diabetes prevention…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In two previous postings I have mooted  the use of demographic classification as a means of unlocking meaning from confidential health data. Later I hope to do further postings refining these issues but this morning I noticed that, one of &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beacon-dodsworth.co.uk/blog/general-news/posters-in-pizzerias-could-help-diabetes-prevention/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=posters-in-pizzerias-could-help-diabetes-prevention</link>
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		<title>Vernacular geography and a sense of place…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days we can buy paper maps and GPS devices, we can download mapping apps for our smartphones and to date, over 500 million people have downloaded the free version of Google Earth. Clearly mapping is important to our sense of &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beacon-dodsworth.co.uk/blog/general-news/vernacular-geography-and-a-sense-of-place/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=vernacular-geography-and-a-sense-of-place</link>
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		<title>Quit bugging me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Beacon Dodsworth we do our best to avoid making mistakes, however writing software is a complex procedure and all humans are fallible, so our software, like all software, can have bugs. Bugs can be erratic, only appearing following specific &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beacon-dodsworth.co.uk/blog/general-news/quit-bugging-me/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=quit-bugging-me</link>
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		<title>Set our data free: An open letter to the Secretary of State for Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Secretary of  State, Based on work with the North West Public Health Observatory (NWPHO), Beacon Dodsworth has produced maps of the likelihood of disease associated with certain lifestyles. (See our blog post The ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of disease in Bradford: An inverse correlation between coronary disease and skin cancer). This &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beacon-dodsworth.co.uk/blog/general-news/set-our-data-free-an-open-letter-to-the-secretary-of-state-for-health/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=set-our-data-free-an-open-letter-to-the-secretary-of-state-for-health</link>
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		<title>Retail locations: An open letter to Waitrose…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Director, A friend prompted me to look for sites for Waitrose in York and I had been told that the smallest outlet to be considered would be 7000 sq. ft. One of the places I identified (too late) has &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beacon-dodsworth.co.uk/blog/general-news/an-open-letter-to-waitrose/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=an-open-letter-to-waitrose</link>
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		<title>Petrol Prices: Fill up at Harry Ramsden’s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At BD, we&#8217;re a little bit geeky when it comes to geography and drive times and so when we stumbled across some interesting videos of people filling their vehicles with chip fat instead of diesel it certainly fuelled some debate&#8230; &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beacon-dodsworth.co.uk/blog/general-news/fill-up-at-harry-ramsdens/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=fill-up-at-harry-ramsdens</link>
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		<title>Is your business in pole position for the Olympics?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be first across the finish line with early updates to your datasets… Staging the Olympics is the largest peacetime logistical exercise any country can undertake. Along with the obvious benefits increased interest and tourism will bring to the capital (and &#8230;]]></description>
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