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We’ve been keeping a set of links for Indices of Deprivation visualisations and analysis. Get in touch if you know of any more.
Visuals:

Guardian map at Super Output Area level: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/29/indices-multiple-deprivation-poverty-england#zoomed-picture
Maps of England from Alasdair Rae, including cartograms: http://undertheraedar.blogspot.com/2011/03/indices-of-deprivation-2010.html
Coventry: http://ias.facts-about-coventry.com/IAS/dataviews/report/fullpage?viewId=236&reportId=234&geoId=7&geoSubsetId=199&geoReportId=7774
Cornwall: www.cornwall.gov.uk/deprivationmap
Nottingham: http://www.nottinghaminsight.org.uk/IAS/dataviews/report?reportId=383&viewId=992&geoReportId=26806&geoId=5&geoSubsetId=
Change over time in London: http://spatial.ly/eEGcEO

Comments:

Guardian DataBlog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/29/indices-multiple-deprivation-poverty-england
OCSI: http://www.ocsi.co.uk/news/2011/03/24/headline-results-from-the-indices-of-deprivation-2010/ and http://www.ocsi.co.uk/news/2011/03/24/why-the-imd-is-still-important-in-the-open-data-age/
Centre for Cities: http://centreforcities.typepad.com/centre_for_cities/2011/03/the-index-of-multiple-deprivation.html
Regeneration [...]

(See the previous post for background information on the Indices of Deprivation 2010)
Overall, the IMD 2010 shows broadly similar results to the older IMD 2007 - areas that were deprived in 2007 are still in the main those that are highly deprived in 2010 (with a correlation of 0.986 between the 2 timepoints). Overall 66% [...]

The government Indices of Deprivation were published earlier today, including the overview Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010 (IMD 2010). The IMD is used very widely to target programmes and resources to tackle inequality and deprivation - below I set out my thoughts on why the IMD is still important, despite the wealth of data [...]

With the Office for National Statistics (ONS) hit by a near 10% per year budget cut in the 2010 Spending Review, ONS has to consider where savings can be found.
They are running a consultation to help determine the shape of the ONS future statistical work. Details and a response document are available from the ONS [...]

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The impact [...]

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The Comprehensive Spending Review has confirmed that local government is going to be making a lot of very tough decisions in the coming months, with local government funding from the centre reduced by 26% over 4 years (very close to the 25% cuts predicted by IFS in May based on the Conservative manifesto plans) and [...]

The Comprehensive Spending Review has confirmed that local government are firmly in the era of “less cash, more freedom”, with 26% cut in central funding over the next 4 years, but the end of ring-fencing for revenue grants.
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