Written by: Stephen Blackburn, Data Mill North, 18/10/2016 Website: ODI Summit and Awards 2016 This has been a great year for us at the Data Mill and the good news keeps coming. It was a big step forward to re-brand Leeds Data Mill to Data Mill North and great to see City of Bradford MDC publishing ever more datasets and producing some...
Written by: Sandip Ghattaure, Data Mill North, 27/05/2016 Chances are if you’re reading this you have an interest in data. Whether it be looking for patterns or re-using it in different ways. If however, you want to find out more about the city and don’t have a background in analysis or coding, or just simply not interested in looking at rows...
To kick off Leeds digital festival 2017, ODI Leeds will be hosting a showcase of talks by digital leaders, innovators and partners of the node. The day will be a celebration of open data and tech projects in Leeds and beyond. Speakers include: CEO of Open Data Institute, Jeni Tennison OpenDataSoft, Fanny Goldsmith Innovation with Data, Alex Craven from Bloom/Jaywing Autonomous vehicles and transport data,...
Written by: Jack Rigby, Data Mill North (Leeds), 26/06/2017 After a successful bid for funding from the Local Government Association (LGA), the Data Mill North teams in Stockport, Newcastle and Leeds has spent the last few weeks collaborating across the region with other local authorities to spread the Innovation Lab format. The aim was to develop practical applications using open data to...
Written by: Tom Forth, ODI Associate and CEO of the software company imactive, 22/06/2015 Find out more: Website At the end of April 2015 the ODI Leeds challenge team finally finished our Innovate UK sponsored work with Leeds Empties. It was hard work, but we’ve learned a lot and delivered some really promising products which we’ll be sharing on this blog in...
Earlier this year we were proud to be part of DataMill North’s ‘Innovation Lab’ project which took place across the North West. Our brief was to develop tech solutions to help older people live independently for longer and our invited partners rallied to our call from far and wide. The event we hosted at Stockport was attended by around 40 people...
University seems to be so much more fun than when I was there. Perhaps it was the subject that I did or perhaps it’s all the cool stuff they get to play with now. The students do work hard though. Again, a lot more than when I was there. If I remember rightly, my years at University consisted of beer,...
We have been made aware of this opportunity via Ripple OSI and would like to share with it you as it may be of interest. Ripple OSI are looking to create an ‘open platform challenge fund’ – a yearly open competition for the creation of open platforms to be deployed in the NHS. The fund would be created by diverting 1%...
I’m excited by the work we are doing with Data Mill North. We’ve been working with the good people down there over the last few months to get some Durham data live. We’re releasing some stuff into the wild – finally. Next year will be our year of data. I’m excited for a number of reasons. Firstly, it’s great to be working...
Written by: Michael Ramsey, Data Mill North, 11/11/2016 Whilst the US election may have caught the headlines, it is not the only major vote that has recently taken place. In fact, the Open Data Institute has also chosen the winners of their annual ODI Awards, with the Data Mill nominated in the Open Data Publisher category. Despite being up against fierce competition...