Data is a type of gold to policy wonks, scholars, and others, and those with an interest in such matters will be delighted to learn about the London Datastore website. The intent of the site is to release all of the Greater London Authority's data, and visitors can get started by clicking on the "Data by Theme" link. Here they will find several dozen data sets organized thematically into headings...

The Government Statistical Service of the UK has released the first public version of StatBase. StatBase--which supersedes the online edition of The Guide to Official Statistics--was developed to provide a comprehensive database of key national statistics derived from a wide array of official data sets. Users may browse the database at the theme, subject, or topic level; or they may conduct simple...