Cycling Traffic Growth Map

March 5th, 2020 by HannahR

Open Innovations have created a visualisation using the Leeds Annual Cycle Growth dataset Leeds Cycling Traffic Growth Map

City Wards Explorer

March 19th, 2019 by HannahR

The city wards explorer uses hex maps to compare a variety of data sets at ward level. Data sets include population growth, household income, qualifications and house prices amongst others. Produced by Tom Forth – visit www.tomforth.co.uk to find out more

Leeds City Region Infrastructure Map

March 11th, 2019 by HannahR

The infrastructure of a city region is vitally important to its future success in creating an appealing place to live, work and invest in. At the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, we’ve produced a free-to-access interactive map sharing all the information about the infrastructure of the Leeds City Region. It covers everything under: boundaries, economic context,…

Energy Performance Certificate Hex maps

January 22nd, 2019 by HannahR

EPC certificates represent a fantastic resource, helping to better understand the energy efficiency of buildings and how they can be improved. EPCs contain data on indicators which detail the current and potential performance that each building can achieve. The difference between these two values can be considered as the buildings capacity for improvement. Here at ODI Leeds we’ve used…

Social Housing Picker

August 9th, 2018 by Stephen Blackburn

Leeds City Council hosted a Housing Innovation with a focus on helping customers make well informed choices when placing bids on council housing. Here, Tom has created an easy-to-use and intuitive visualisation of how long customers are likely to have to wait in various wards around Leeds.

CSV to GeoJSON converter

July 30th, 2018 by HannahR

Produced by ODI Leeds, generate a GeoJSON file from a CSV file in three easy steps. The CSV file will need to contain two columns that contain the coordinates.

What’s About?

April 5th, 2018 by Stephen Blackburn

In May 2017 council's from across the North of England came together to participate in three Local Government Association (LGA) funded Innovation Lab-style workshops in Newcastle, Leeds and Stockport, to focus on promoting healthy lifestyles. Check here to find out what the results were...

ODI Leeds UK Public Body Spending

February 23rd, 2018 by Stephen Blackburn

This is an ODI Leeds project which take spending from public sector authorities and visualises it in a useful and meaningful way.

Maple: Mapping Leeds

January 29th, 2018 by Stephen Blackburn

Maple is a tool for generating maps of geographic data about Leeds; for example, if you want to visualise your geographic data in a report or presentation. It is aimed at people who already have the data, but are having difficulty presenting it in a meaningful way.

ODI Leeds Data Mapper (brownfield sites)

January 4th, 2018 by Stephen Blackburn

ODI Leeds have taken brownfield sites datasets published the five West Yorkshire local authorities and added them to their Data Mapper.

Leeds Bins

November 23rd, 2017 by Stephen Blackburn

The Leeds Bins app allows you to easily obtain bin collection information in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Input your address to see your Black, Green and Brown bin collection dates for the next four weeks.

The Things Network – Indicative Coverage

October 13th, 2017 by Steve James

The Bradford Data & Information Team has made available a visual guide to Things Network coverage. Initially this includes Bradford, Calderdale and Manchester.

Leeds Adult Learning

September 11th, 2017 by Alois Afilipoaie

Leeds Adult Learning offers a range of first step courses for adults. Courses take place across the city in a variety of different venues. Whether you are looking to learn a new skill, help your child or develop your skills to find work there will be a course for you. Many courses are free, subject to personal circumstances.

Leeds Cycling Dashboard

September 7th, 2017 by Alois Afilipoaie

Based partly on cycling datasets hosted on the Data Mill North, this interactive application provides a visual representation of cycling in Leeds: cycling routes, cycling bays and cycling accidents.

Leeds Public Health Dashboard

September 4th, 2017 by Alois Afilipoaie

The Leeds Public Health Dashboard provides the user with an interactive tool to easily view information about a variety of health-related factors affecting the city. Just choose your preferred indicators and click on 'Display Points' to see the results plotted on the map.

The Urban Data Platform

May 31st, 2017 by Jack Rigby

The Urban Data Platform is a joint initiative of the Directorate General Joint Research Centre and the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission. It aims to provide access to information on the status and trends of European cities and their surrounding regions.

Bradford District Dashboard

April 10th, 2017 by Steve James

This District Dashboard is currently in beta. The main section titles have links to underlying dashboards. We would really appreciate any feedback. Please email feedback to Will Ridley-Ellis

Careview

April 6th, 2017 by Sandip Ghattaure

Careview is an age friendly application that addresses the missing link in the current services systems. It helps to spot and report signs of social isolation in our communities and neighbourhoods. Careview was developed during the Age Friendly Innovation Lab in Leeds in 2015/2016.

NE Map Data Viewer

February 15th, 2017 by Sandip Ghattaure

The NE map data view allows the user to easily view information about North East in a easy to use way, from Caravan Parks in Durham to Cycle Parking in Newcastle and more.

3D Maps of Leeds

November 17th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

Produced by: Parallel Find out more: Leeds Schools 3D Map Parallel offer a range of interactive 3D maps and exploratory exercises investigating the capabilities of data-driven Mapbox GL JS vector maps and the new 3D rendering capability. You can view from a range of maps including school locations in Leeds, population densities, fuel poverty, flood risk…

Safe Places

October 7th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

This free-to-use smart phone app automatically locates the nearest member registered Safe Place and directs you there step by step no matter where you are in the UK.

Meter Explorer

July 27th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

You can explore electricity use at over 200 buildings managed by the Leeds City Council. Up to five years at data is available at up to 30-minute resolution.

Schools Energy Explorer

July 27th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

Compare energy use at your school with other local schools over a period of up to five years. Each schools energy use is normalised to the number of pupils, and is represented as the equivalent number of kettles that could be boiled with that amount of energy.

Leeds City Assets

July 6th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

Whether it is a piece of data, an annual event or a job vacancy, Leeds Data City is creating a place to discover the great assets Leeds has to offer.

Cycling Casualty Map

June 17th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

Using data sourced from Leeds City Council via the Data Mill North, you can now explore and derive insight into where cycling casualties resulting from road traffic accidents occurred in Leeds (2009-2015).

Pedestrian Casualty Map

June 17th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

Using data sourced from Leeds City Council via the Data Mill North, you can now explore and derive insight into where pedestrian casualties resulting from road traffic accidents occurred in Leeds (2009-2015).

GSOH – Great Sense of Home!

June 3rd, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

Leeds Libraries IT Usage

January 15th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

Using library data published on the Data Mill North, Libraries Hacked has produced a useful and interesting web chart using the Highcharts tool, showing the amount of IT usage across the libraries in Leeds over the years.

Streetwise Life

January 7th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

This is a website which was created using data from the Data Mill North and other sources showing local information such as NHS hospital locations, accidents, planning applications and restaurants.

ViaggiArt

January 6th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

This is a visitor app created by Italian company Altrama. Using data from the Data Mill North they have created a free interactive app which guides visitors around the city.

Leeds Empties

January 6th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

Leeds Empties are a social enterprise in Leeds concerned with filling empty homes. They use data from the Data Mill North to show how their work is contributing to the number of empty homes reducing in the city.

Accident Analysis

January 6th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

Independent of the council, people are using data from the Data Mill North to provide real insight. We blog, tweet and promote this work where we can. Liam Bolton has analysed data published on the Data Mill to show the accident ‘hot spots’ in Leeds

Dashboard

January 6th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

Working with Hebe Works, a local digital SME, the council has created the Leeds City Dashboard. This is a product which has been created to make the data published on the Data Mill North and elsewhere more accessible. It is already available and will be formally launched in 2016.

Leeds Art Crawl

January 5th, 2016 by Sandip Ghattaure

The council didn’t have a comprehensive list of art across the city. It commissioned a small SME to design a crowdsourcing solution. Using Twitter and with GPS switched on, citizens are encouraged to take a picture of the art and tweet using #artcrawl. This has created a dataset which is published on the Data Mill North. Other councils have seen the potential of this prototype e.g. understand the location of trees or potholes.

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