You may not think of websites as sources of carbon emissions but they are. Data centres, transmission networks, and the devices we use to access them all use electricity which, in turn, produces carbon emissions. When your website has lots of visitors that can easily add up. We've used the Website Carbon Calculator code (created by Wholegrain Digital) to assess UK local authority homepages, UK learning provider homepages, and UK Governm...

Leeds City Centre hourly footfall data derived from Leeds City Council. Each file represents a different counter/camera, with one row per day and one column per hour. This format requires less storage and is more suitable for web visualisations. The data published by Leeds City Council has some issues eg. missing data between certain date ranges. These are documented in "issues.csv". Camera 1 corresponds to "footfall-1-1.csv" , camera 2...

The IoTUK Nation Database brings together a snapshot of the current state of the businesses and organisations that make up the Internet of Things sector in the UK. We've created the database using open data and the power of "the web of data" to collate and cross-reference information from a variety of sources including IotUK/Digital Catapult, Companies House, and crawling the web. There is also an interactive visualisation of this datas...

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) publishes EPC data, licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0., providing information on the energy performance of buildings to help contribute towards the Government’s climate change adaptation and greenhouse gas emission reduction policies. The certificates detail data for each property’s current and potential performance for a number of indicators; the dif...

Note that this dataset only provides the derived geography of each energy performance certificate (EPC) within Leeds. Each EPC has Eastings/Northings, LSOA ID, and Ward ID. There is a separate dataset containing the environmental data for each EPC in a separate dataset with a more open licence. Full documentation can be found in the other dataset. Both datasets can be re-combined using the EPC Building Ref.

Investment in Northern Tech has soared in the three months to March 2017, with £116.2 million of finance supporting the region. Capital flows have increased 1,303 percent compared to the equivalent period in 2016, and represent the best Q1 investment period since 2007. This is data from the Tech North Investment Index Q1 report appendix.

The 2014 Tech Nation report identified 463 digital businesses in Leeds. Following this report, work was completed by DataCity Leeds, in partnership with ODI Leeds & Bloom Agency to make a more complete data set on behalf of the Leeds City Region. Over 3,500 digital businesses were identified in Leeds and a total of 8,500 across the region. This is the first time that the Leeds City Region has been mapped in this way.