After completing her Masters in Business Intelligence (SAS), where she asked, “How good is health open data?” (spoilers: not great), she freelanced for a year working on answering impossible questions such as: the Cabinet Office’s “How open can we be with adult social care data?” and Leeds City Council’s “How can we persuade our people to save energy?” (spoilers: not...
The UK Data Service Open Data Dive aims to bring together coders, data enthusiasts, graphic designers, project managers and pizza lovers into the same room to hunt down, crunch and beautify open social and economic data. The Open Data Dive is free to attend, open to everyone and there will be a free lunch and drinks all day. Newcomers are welcome and...
Sign up for the next Women in Tech event for and by, women interested in all things digital. Skys ambition is to highlight female role models in the industry, encourage knowledge exchange and networking; and, of course, to have fun. As Sky grows and creates more job opportunities within tech, their aim is to empower and support women who work or aspire...
Alscient are delighted that Leeds will be joining London, Barcelona, Madrid, Jakarta and Rio de Janeiro as a host city for Big Data Week 2016. They will be hosting events across the city, working with academics, businesses, associations and others to offer new ways to explore data and the power it has to bring about transformation. From lectures to live experiments,...
Would you like to know more about the Raspberry Pi computer? It really doesn’t matter if you can’t code or don’t have a Raspberry Pi they will show and teach you everything you need to know, and besides – it’s not all about coding. There is also an appeal for any adults with some experience of the Raspberry Pi to support...
A festival of technology in the heart of the Pennines. Wuthering Bytes started in 2013 when Andrew Back and Tim Harbour got together in a pub and came up with the crazy idea of putting on a festival of interesting and inspiring technology in the small market town of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. With a range of workshops, events and talks...
As part of the National Coding Week Leeds City College are pleased to invite you to a free coding sessions. They will equip you with a basic knowledge of how coding works and help you to better understand the process of programming. No prior knowledge is required and the basic technical language used in the industry (syntax, variables, input, output,...
All day Digital Ilkley event showcasing Primary School presentations, Secondary School Careers Fair and Business presentations. This is a not for profit event to help people appreciate a range of services and technologies available to them in the Ilkley area. Register to keep updated as details of the event emerge. Some excellent speakers that will make you think and improve your digital education
Liam Bolton is a Data Scientist and Founder of Student Data Labs. Working at the intersection of data analytics, design and storytelling, he has collaborated with a variety of organisations from non-profits to news agencies and research labs. Through Student Data Labs, Liam runs data-driven Innovation Labs that aim to tackle civic issues whilst teaching practical data skills to university students.
The 2014 Tech Nation report identified 463 digital businesses in Leeds. Following this report, work was completed by DataCity Leeds, in partnership with ODI Leeds & Bloom Agency to make a more complete data set on behalf of the Leeds City Region. Over 3,500 digital businesses were identified in Leeds and a total of 8,500 across the region. This is...
