ODI Leeds and Friends Showcase 2017 April 20th, 2017 by Sandip Ghattaure To kick off Leeds digital festival 2017, ODI Leeds will be hosting a showcase of talks by digital leaders, innovators and partners of the node. The day will be a celebration of open data and tech projects in Leeds and beyond. Speakers include: CEO of Open Data Institute, Jeni Tennison OpenDataSoft, Fanny Goldsmith Innovation with…
Ripple – An Open Digital Platform for the NHS January 18th, 2017 by Sandip Ghattaure We have been made aware of this opportunity via Ripple OSI and would like to share with it you as it may be of interest. Ripple OSI are looking to create an ‘open platform challenge fund’ – a yearly open competition for the creation of open platforms to be deployed in the NHS. The fund…
Let’s help Bradford’s bid to host the Great Exhibition of the North 2018! September 14th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure Written by: Shelagh O’Neill, 14/09/2016 The competition Bradford is bidding to host the Great Exhibition of the North, a two-month spectacular to showcase the best of art, culture and design in the North of England to national and international audiences. Towns and cities across the North East, North West and Yorkshire have been invited to submit…
Sustainable Development Lab named as one of 2016’s New Radicals by Nesta and Observer newspaper July 11th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure Written by: Abhay Adhikari, Urban Sustainable Development Lab, 11/07/2016 The Sustainable Development Lab has been named as one of 2016’s New Radicals by Nesta and the Observer newspaper. We are one of 50 radical-thinking individuals and organisations changing the UK for the better! Check out our profile on the Nesta website. It has been running for 18 months.…
Data for people who don’t do data May 27th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure Written by: Sandip Ghattaure, Data Mill North, 27/05/2016 Chances are if you’re reading this you have an interest in data. Whether it be looking for patterns or re-using it in different ways. If however, you want to find out more about the city and don’t have a background in analysis or coding, or just simply…
#Floodhack16 – where next? March 31st, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure Written by: Tom Forth, IMACTIVATE, 24/03/2016 Find out more: Website On the 11th and 12th of March nearly a hundred people came to ODILeeds to pool knowledge, share ideas, and build solutions to flooding. We were blown away by what was achieved. For a quick intro to what happened, check out Paul Lancaster’s blog for…
Variations in drug prescriptions in England December 16th, 2015 by Sandip Ghattaure Written by: Sandip Ghattaure, Data Mill North, 16/12/2015 Find out more: Website At Leeds Data Mill we’re always looking to new and innovative methods of presenting open data in interesting and useful ways. We recently came across the website OpenPrescribing (https://openprescribing.net/) which does just that. Built by Ben Goldacre and Anna Powell-Smith at the EBM…
The Leeds Empties Map June 22nd, 2015 by Sandip Ghattaure Written by: Tom Forth, ODI Associate and CEO of the software company imactive, 22/06/2015 Find out more: Website At the end of April 2015 the ODI Leeds challenge team finally finished our Innovate UK sponsored work with Leeds Empties. It was hard work, but we’ve learned a lot and delivered some really promising products which…