Queen's birthday honours, 2012: download the full list as open data

The Queen's birthday honours list is out, with upward of a thousand people awarded as part of a well-worn ritual of the British monarch's power. The honours follow the celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and The list, as it comes out, is pretty inaccessible, so we thought it would be interesting to turn it into a spreadsheet and break it down - many thanks to the Guardian's John Houston for making this happen. So what does the list say about the state of the nation? What kinds of honours do people receive? And what do they actually mean? The key ones are: • Order of the British Empire , broken down into Commander (CBE), Member, (MBE), Officer (OBE) and so on. This is the most awarded category, and covers general achievements in military and civilian life • Order of the Bath , which is awarded to senior civil servants and high-ranking military • The Royal Victorian Order , which is for 'services to the crown' Here's the breakdown for today's list: People think of OBE as meaning the Order of the British Empire, but it's actually one of the divisions - meaning an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Of the OBE's this these are the most popular services honored: Here's the full data list for you to explore and download . Let us know what you find in the comments. Download the data • DATA: download the full spreadsheet More data More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Development and aid data • Search the world's global development data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? • Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group • Contact us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter • Like us on Facebook