Written by: Mike Davies, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, 08/08/2014 Data is not a thing in itself, it always has context. Think of data as a parcel that has come through the post. Inside the parcel is ‘data’, but the parcel itself is also data – you’ve only got the data inside because it’s been created, packaged, and sent to you. So...
Written by: Mike Davies, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, 08/09/2014 Get Your Open Data Project Going! In the first part of this post we explored why companies should release open data. In this part, I’ll share some thoughts about how you might scope and plan an open data project. Scope and Possibilities One thing to consider is that an open data project may represent an...
Written by: Mike Davies, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, 29/09/2014 In part 1 and part 2 we looked at why and how you might approach an open data project. So what exactly is this data that we’re talking about? What does it mean? Data and Wisdom “They say there’s enough data in the world to make people confused, but not enough to make them...
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 hovering just below the radar, but how...
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 region. Catch the action as it...
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 are made available on Leeds...
Written by: Tom Forth, IMACTIVATE, 03/12/2014 What’s it like to take part in an internal data dive to help businesses understand the potential of their data? We asked Tom Forth to tell us tales from the recent Leeds City Council Sports Internal Data Dive. From Wakefield, Bradford, and Leeds a team of West Yorkshire data wranglers assembled at the ODILeeds to hear...
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 traditional success measure of ‘people through the...
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 empty homes in Leeds – 90% of...
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 up their varied amounts of data, at...