The Power of Open Data February 23rd, 2015 by Leanne Buchan Written by: Sandip Ghattaure, Data Mill North, 23/02/2015 Sandip Ghattaure and Stephen Blackburn both work in Leeds City Council’s Open Data team. Their latest work is the release of the city’s WiFi data set. Sandip: As part of the open data team, my role is to liaise with services and partners, encouraging them to open…
Hack My Route – Live Blog February 7th, 2015 by Leanne Buchan Written by: Data Mill North, 07/02/2015 Leeds Data Mill have joined forces with West Yorkshire Combined Authority (formerly Metro), and ODI Leeds to create Hack My Route, a creative hack day designed to bring cyclists together with road safety specialists and creative developers to create a new service for cyclists across the wider West Yorkshire…
Leeds Empties Wins Technology Strategy Board Funding January 27th, 2015 by Leanne Buchan Written by: Leanne Buchan, Leeds City Council, 27/01/2015 Find out more: Blog / Website Leeds Empties is a social enterprise which works with owners of empty homes to bring them back into use. We are funded by Leeds City Council – and work alongside their Empty Homes Team to offer intensive support to owners of…
Can Open Data revolutionise Heritage and Culture? There’s £50,000 to help you find out January 16th, 2015 by Leanne Buchan Written by: Briony Phillips, Open Data Institute, 16/01/2015 I spent the last weekend being inspired by an eclectic group of entrepreneurs, economists, knitters, project managers and developers who had a shared interest in how we can inject some fresh, data driven ideas and energy into the heritage and culture sector(s). We talked about whether the…
Call for Developers December 2nd, 2014 by Leanne Buchan Written by: Data Mill North, 02/12/2014 In the coming months we will be running a series of internal hacks with Leeds City Council staff. Our goal is to build confidence in a more collaborative way of working that can be facilitated by open data. We also want to increase the number of open data sets that…
Sporting City Commission October 2nd, 2014 by Leanne Buchan Written by: Data Mill North, 02/10/2014 The challenge Leeds has long been heralded as a sporting city, with a stronghold of supporters come rain or shine. What we are less known for however is those small community sports clubs that brave the elements every weekend without fail. We know that local clubs are already active…
An open data hack where context is key March 9th, 2014 by Leanne Buchan At the time of writing this post, we are on day 2 of a hack event, which is being held at Leeds City Museum. There are 5 interdisciplinary groups working very hard to turn a concept into a working prototype.