Written by: Data Mill North, 09/03/2014 At Leeds Data Mill our goal is to create the first comprehensive repository of open data sets for the city that is available for everyone to use. This includes data from healthcare, heritage, culture, transport, education and many other sources. As a team we took a decision early on to have a dual focus – to...
Written by: Data Mill North, 06/03/2014 The Leeds Data Mill website is now live and we invite you to explore the data sets we’ve collected so far. The website will remain in perpetual beta, which is our way of saying will continue to take feedback and make changes are we progress – constantly developing. In the coming months we’ll be sharing blog...
Written by: Data Mill North, 06/03/2014 This is the first event hosted by Leeds Data Mill and is open to all to participate. With your help we will explore the myths and reality of the services we use on a day-to-day basis to understand what is the quality of life of a Leeds citizen. The solution is more than technology, help create...
Written by: Chris Compston, ThoughtWorks, 10/03/2014 Overview National Hack The Government is an annual hack day run by Rewired State, they aim to bring great people together to have fun hacking and building things. Hoping to improve transparency, open data and relationships between the Government and it’s citizens. Leeds City Council and Leeds Data Mill are at the start of an open data...
Written by: Shi & Kriss Blank, WETGENES, 20/03/2014 Website: wetgenes.com The Leeds Data Mill Hack event was unlike other hackathons we’ve previously attended in such a way that it was intended to solve problems; or rather, to ask the right questions. This was totally different for us, where previously our experience of hacks was mostly about creating the weirdest, overambitious hack you...
Written by: Tom Forth, IMACTIVATE, 25/03/2014 When Star Wars was released in 1977 few people know it was a sequel. In 1999 when the Phantom Menace came out, most people wished they’d never found out. The analogy is strained, but I think it’s important. Leeds Data Mill is nothing new, it’s just the latest installment in a data story that our...
Written by: Steve Peters, DCLG, 15/04/2014 Platforms such as Leeds Data Mill, Greater Manchester Data Synchronisation Programme, and the Hampshire Hub share a common (golden) thread and bigger prize: They set standards to blend data from local and national sources. This is key to enabling innovative new data-driven tools and insights, focussed around places, people and communities. I thought I’d try practicing...
Written by: Data Mill North, 20/06/2014 Online Ticketing for Health in Numbers (July 3): Open Data in Healthcare powered by Eventbrite
Written by: Stephen Blackburn, Data Mill North, 20/06/2014 I was involved in a workshop last week with colleagues who are involved in responding to Freedom of Information (FoI) requests. Changes to the FoI Act now state that if a dataset is requested, we must provide the information in an open and machine readable format to allow re-use. Not only that, we...
Written by: Mark Barrett, Data Flock, 15/07/2015 Today (Tuesday 15th July) Cllr Yeadon and I are launching our very own ‘Leeds Dashboard’. The aim is to make Open Data understandable to all by creating something very visual that helps explain our city. We’re launching Leeds Dashboard with a number of initial ‘widgets’ that have been created to demonstrate its capabilities – from...