Poverty data gaps

Interactive data explorer built with Quarto and Observable for the Royal Statistical Society and the Centre for Public Data.

The Royal Statistical Society and the Centre for Public Data are undertaking research into gaps on poverty data in the UK, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Insight Infrastructure team. As part of this project, I built an interactive tool that lets users explore, filter and contribute to a shared picture of the key gaps.

Interactive data gaps explorer

Explore the tool at royal-statistical-society.github.io/poverty-data-gaps.

You can read more about the data gaps explorer on the RSS website. The source code can be viewed on GitHub.

Tools

The interactive data explorer is built primarily with open source tools, alongside Airtable for storing data.

• Uses airtable as a database to provide a user-friendly interface for adding and editing data gaps
• Extracts and processes data from airtable using R using a reproducible workflow
• Builds a website the Quarto
• with interactive tables created with ObservableJS.
• The site is deployed using GitHub Actions to allow an automated workflow to deal with data updates and edits to the site, making updates easy for non-technical maintainers.