Written by: Sandip Ghattaure, Data Mill North, 15/05/2015 Find out more: Website At Leeds City Council we have lots of information on our website pages about the activities and sports on offer at our various leisure centres. We wanted to see how newly published data could present this same data in a new and interactive way. Working with Hebe Works, we published...
Written by: Abhay Adhikari, Urban Sustainable Development Lab, 25/08/2015 Photograph by: David Hayward Many cities across the world are keen to evolve into a futuristic ‘smart’ metropolis. But there is another significant change that is taking place in our towns and cities right now. We’re living longer than previous generations. In the UK alone, the number of people aged 80 and over...
Written by: Abhay Adhikari, Urban Sustainable Development Lab, 26/08/2015 Earlier this week we held our first Energy Innovation Lab as part of the ongoing Smart City programme. The Lab marks the beginning of a project to encourage employees to take greater interest in their carbon footprint. We made some surprising discoveries when we analysed the energy consumption data of one of...
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. With help from the...
Written by: Liam Bolton, ODI Leeds, 24/09/2015 Find out more: Product / Website This year ODI Leeds embarked on an ambitious project focusing on road traffic casualties in the city. Using open data from Leeds Data Mill, I began exploring the Road Traffic Accidents datasets available on the portal. This initially culminated in a dot density map of cycling casualties in the city. What...
Written by: Stephen Blackburn, Data Mill North, 19/10/2015 Edafe Onerhime is a Strategist, Speaker and Consultant. She has worked with Leeds Data Mill and Leeds City Council on a number of their Innovation Labs and done some great work in ‘making sense of data’. Here, she’s pulled together all manner of links and guides to help us all through the open...
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 Data Lab, OpenPrescribing uses millions of rows of...
Written by: Tom Bliss, Leeds Beckett University, 08/03/2016 Why ‘Urbal’? There is a term, ‘Rurban,’ which technically describes a ‘periurban’ area that is chiefly residential, but where some farming is carried out. It’s also used by some to describe the bleeding of unsustainable and polluting urban consumerism into formerly healthy rural resources. (It’s even been claimed that the whole of Britain is...
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 TechNorth. For more details read through Stuart Childs’s...
Written by: Stephen Blackburn, Data Mill North, 18/05/2016 I’ve not written a blog post for a while so I thought I’d better pull my finger out. Truth is, in the Open Data team (well, ‘team’ is perhaps stretching it – there’s two of us), we’ve just busy getting on with the day job – identifying datasets, working with a wide variety...