Freeze row and column headers – Just like in Excel, you can freeze column and row headers so that when you scroll across or down, it is clear what the rows and columns relate to. The ‘Freeze Panes’ command is available from ‘Customise’ à ‘Table options’.
Most of the improvements in version 7 of UKDS.Stat are ones that are not visible in the data browser, such as improved stability and performance, but they are key to what has been happening with the development work that has been undertaken behind the scenes.
The .Stat software has been almost totally hong kong rcs data rewritten from top to bottom with a ‘scout’ rule of ‘Always leave the code in a better condition than you found it’, using a set of coding standards called SOLID which can be summed up as ‘make it work, then make it right, only then make it fast’.
Part of the reason to move to Version 7 is that it will allow quicker and easier upgrades to future versions which will allow us to bring new functionality, faster performance and greater stability to the user with as little disruption as possible.
The UK Data Service is part of the Statistical Information System – Collaboration Community (SISCC) – a group of international statistical organisations – which work together to create and improve the .Stat software. Part of the work of that community is to provide better functionality for .Stat to meet the needs of its different users – one new function that .Stat can now provide is a multilingual data browser – meeting the needs of countries like Belgium where there are multiple national languages in use.
Opening up access to more OECD Data
At present UKDS.Stat allows non-registered users access to a range of open datasets – three from the World Bank (African Development Indicators, International Debt Statistics, World Development Indicators and 5 from the IMF: Balance of Payments, Direction of Trade, Government Finance, International Finance and World Economic Outlook.
From Wednesday 15th July we will be adding the following datasets from the OECD as open and available to any user without registration or login.