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...
About Join us at this event for retail and consumer product professionals to understand how data and technology is going to revolutionise their industries. Learn about the inaugural Kx Retail Innovation Index and hear how leading worldwide brands such as ASDA and Telefonica are putting data and technology at the heart of their business. This event will be held at The Tetley,...
Join us in our lovely space as we stream the Lunchtime Lecture live from London. We will have tea/coffee and wifi available in a bright comfortable space. Get out of the office, stretch your legs, and catch a brilliant bite-size talk from experts in data from across the globe. Leasehold Knowledge Partnership’s (LKP) data journey began in 2014 when they discovered...
Launch night at ODI Leeds We’re thrilled to be launching CodeMill at ODI Leeds with a very special guest speaker: spacecraft engineer Katie Hassell (@khassellspace) Software and Spacecraft: Not Just for Computer Scientists Like many engineered products of today (cars, aeroplanes, buildings), spacecraft have complex designs; not made any easier by a lack of access after launch and usually no “repeat” mission to...
Agenda Thursday 9th November 2017, Cloth Hall Court 9:00 – 10.00 Registration, tea and coffee 10:00 – 10:20 Chairs Welcome by Chris Riley, ICT Manager at Lancaster City Council, Socitm Vice President and Chair of Socitm North West 10:20 – 11:00 Commercialisation in local authorities Change is constant – and it’s getting faster. Innovation in both technology and the market is rapid; expensive things are getting cheaper; scarce things...
Produced by: Rob Harrand Find out more: Website Based partly on cycling datasets hosted on the Data Mill North, this interactive application provides a visual representation of cycling in Leeds: cycling routes, cycling bays and cycling accidents. Accidents are divided into 3 categories: slight, serious and fatal. When accessing the application cycling routes appear in blue. In order to view the additional data...
A dataset providing the electricity usage in council owned buildings, a reading is provided every 30 mins. Please note Not all locations are updated at the same time, some locations may be updated daily, weekly or annually. A blank field may indicate a location which is used infrequently or not in use/closed down. A zero figure may indicate a...
Join us in our lovely space as we stream the Lunchtime Lecture live from London. We will have tea/coffee and wifi available in a bright comfortable space. Get out of the office, stretch your legs, and catch a brilliant bite-size talk from experts in data from across the globe. Journalists have been slow to approach open data as a source of...
Produced by: Wet Genes Find out more: Dataset / Website What was needed? A way to capture the range of public art in Leeds, where it is, what people consider to be public art, and a nice photo to show us all what it looks like. Why? To help inform how we care for the existing public art, what is considered as public art, and...
Produced by: Hebe Works/Leeds City Council Find out more: Website Working with Hebe Works, a local digital SME, at Data Mill North we want to make data accessible to all, not just to those who know their way around a CSV file. That’s why we’ve created the Leeds City Dashboard – an easy way to visualise open source data from the Data...