Free Friday lunchtime lectures at ODI Leeds. Streamed from ODI HQ in London, the lunchtime lectures offer unique insights in to the world of open data from innovative speakers working across the globe. On Friday 2 December 2016, 1pm – 2pm, Paul Downey from the Government Digital Service will share his vision for what open registers can help achieve, and the...
A dataset providing the daily solar pv generation for domestic and commercial properties in Leeds. Please note The daily meter readings file contains automated Meter readings in kWh (kilowatt hour) by site (note, some historic data still to be added). The locations file contains postcode outcode informtion on LCC domestic systems, and address level information on non-domestic systems, and the following photovoltaic panel...
On Friday 25 November 2016, 1pm – 2pm, Peter Wells explains how a bout of lunchtime whimsy led him to create an open data register of UK government cats. He talks about the tools he used to create the register and dashboard, how people can help collaboratively maintain them on the web and some of the lessons he learnt along...
To celebrate their new and exciting collaboration, HealthTech Women UK and NHS Digital are joining together in Leeds on 7 December for an event exploring the enormous potential of User Centered Design when developing healthtech systems. The panel of experts will be discussing the UX projects they have been involved with, and the importance of including patients in the design and...
Friday lunchtime lectures have returned to ODI Leeds. Streamed from ODI HQ in London, the lunchtime lectures offer unique insights in to the world of open data from innovative speakers working across the globe. On Friday 18 November 2016, 1pm – 2pm, Dr Nick Bearman will explain how his team took the disparate Census geographies of enumeration districts and output areas...
The launch of Digital Leeds will kick off the series with a discussion of Tech4Good projects in Leeds. Tech4Good aims to harness technology to improve the lives of others and make the world a better place. This event will have speakers from Tech4Good companies and projects in Leeds explaining what they do, what they offer and what they want. The event will...
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...
An api providing a lookup of British postcodes with additional fields optimised for geospace applications, including easting, northing, latitude, longitude, postcode area, postcode district, postcode sector, outcode and incode. All data is derived from the ONS Postcode Database, and is free to use without restriction as long as the OS, Royal Mail and ONS attributions are included. The API version accepts a...
Written by: Forsyth Hill, Data Mill North, 12/10/2016 Hello, my name is Forsyth, I am the newest member of the Open Data team at Leeds City Council. I started full involvement on 19th September. I have arrived at a really exciting time, as there seems to be a groundswell in the desire to do collaborative work across public, private and voluntary sectors...
This dataset contains information about some key items held by the council's Museums service. The council is currently working on a new 'Collections Online' website. The items listed in this dataset will appear on this new site.
