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: Sanne Velthuis, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 03/06/2014 I know very little about Open Data. In fact, until a few months ago I had only a very limited understanding of what exactly was meant by the term – apart from a vague notion that it probably had something to do with things like Wikipedia and Linux. I have a bit of...
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...
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...