How well do you know your city? The challenge was set. Can residents planning to move house in a city explore their options without any bias? A website that won’t entice you to that popular neighbourhood where the property prices are guaranteed to go up. Or a map that won’t reassure you everyone on the street thinks just like you because...
Leeds GovJam is a chance to learn by doing.Your team will collaborate rapidly in designing and testing solutions to public problems. You’ll get more than great new ideas and service design methods: by the end of the event you will have the experience of co-creating a working prototype. GovJam is a global event which applies tools and techniques of service design...
Since winning the ODI Showcase in 2015, the first product that Plexus has produced is ‘Grace’, an AI bot. For five minutes each day, Grace asks users questions about their challenges, confidence, positivity and how useful they have felt the day has been. Users can then explore the data they record in weekly, customised emails and a personalisable online dashboard. Plexus...
The event is being organised by Leeds City Council and Tinder Foundation, the UK’s leading digital inclusion charity. You’ll get the chance to hear from Leeds City Council Chief Executive Tom Riordan, Chief Executive of Tinder Foundation, Helen Milner OBE, Victoria Betton from mHabitat and Mick Ward, Head of Commissioning for Adult Social Care at Leeds City Council. The event will...
Collecting and using data is a growing requirement for any organisation involved in service delivery across the Third Sector. There is talk and also concerns about open data – Is it secure? How do we access it? As well interest in using other forms of data – How can it be measured? And what tools are available to best present...
The evening will begin with lightning talks from all of the Heads of Tech introducing the products they work on. Afterwards there will be breakout stations where you can ask questions to find out all the information you want to know about each tribe, how they work and how the products are delivered. The evening will end in true Sky Meet-up...
Leeds City Council and City of Bradford MDC are working together on a variety of digital projects under the ‘Superconnected Cities’ banner. One such project is to work with Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to improve their broadband speeds. Grants (known as vouchers) are paid to businesses between £100 and £3,000 to help them get better connected. Superfast broadband can...
This hands-on course will teach you how to write your own computer programs, one line of code at a time. You’ll learn how to access open data, clean it and analyse it and to produce visualisations. You will also learn how to write up and share your analyses, privately or publicly.
In 2014/15 the West Yorkshire Local Authority Partnership measured the economic impact of the museums in the region using the AIM (Association of independant museums) methodology. The data collected was encapusated in the West Yorkshire Museums: Making a Difference infographic. The methodology can be found here http://www.aim-museums.co.uk/downloads/f6e017ac-8f11-11e3-8be4-001999b209eb.pdf Please note The longitude and latitude on the treasure dataset is a general pin point of the region/city.
A dataset providing a set of information to help practitioners dealing with cases of domestic violence and abuse, including honour based violence and forced marriage. Included are leaflets for distribution to affected clients, as well as risk assessment forms and the process for making a Claire’s Law request. These documents have been published in preparation for a Leeds City Council innovation lab...
