Data projects
Working on data projects to deliver tangible outcomes is at the very heart of our mission and purpose. Click on these boxes to find out more about our latest work. You can get a list of our projects as a CSV file (on Github) from our dashboard.
Ongoing projects
Parkulator 2022
2022-10
A reworking of the original Parkulator to calculate the amount of land used for parking, golf courses, or brownfield land within a user-selected map area and how many homes or parks could be built in the space instead.
Youth Futures Foundation
2022-06
Creating a microsite to help the Youth Futures Foundation showcase some of their data and work to improve employment outcomes for young people from marginalised backgrounds in England.
Regional FES
2022-05
Working with National Grid ESO to show their regional Future Energy Scenarios.
Local elections 2022
2022-05
Visualising the 2022 local elections in Leeds and Calderdale using data from Democracy Club
Register of Members' Financial Interests Explorer
2022-04
Parsing and exploring the House of Commons Register of Members' Financial Interests
Housing England
2022-03
Explore housing in England and see what percentage are vacant.
EValuator
2022-03
A prototype which demonstrates an approach to integrated planning across several disciplines (land use, sustainability, energy, transport).
Leeds 2023
2022-02
Helping Leeds 2023 with all things data…
UK Power Networks DFES 2021
2021-12
An interactive visualisation of UK Power Network's potential future scenarios (DFES) for 2021
Northern Powergrid DFES 2021
2021-12
An interactive visualisation of Northern Powergrid's potential future scenarios (DFES) updated to 2021
Diversity Data Builder
2021-09
A tool to help people create or update a CSV file following the Diversity Data Standard for Diversity Dashboards.
Leeds City Region Diversity Dashboard
2021-09
Created for the Leeds Anchors Network this dashboard aims to show data relating to employee demographics from Leeds employers
Data Ethics
2021-08
A lot of people talk about data ethics but is actually doing something? Join us as we explore existing resources and interview experts.
UK Power Networks - Heat Street
2021-08
A tool to help local authorities and community energy groups forecast and plan energy efficiency and low carbon heating solutions.
Government organisation website emissions
2021-08
How are government websites impacting the planet? We measured the effective CO2 emissions from 577 UK Government organisations.
River Data: Wharfe
2021-07
Working with Yorkshire Water to identify the new and existing datasets that could help explore the health of our rivers.
UK Data Landscape
2021-06
What is a 'data landscape' and what does it look like? This ODI-led project applies our rapid open innovation methods to gather input about who/what should be included in the landscape combined with The Data City machine-learning platform to develop an initial snapshot.
University website emissions
2021-06
How are university websites impacting the planet? We measured the effective CO2 emissions from every UK university.
OpenJourneyTime
2021-03
MSOA to MSOA journey time pairs and MSOA-centred isochrones for North England
Council website emissions
2021-03
How are council websites impacting the planet? We measured the effective CO2 emissions from every UK council homepage.
Radically Open Recovery
2020-10
What data do we need to look ahead to a post-pandemic world?
Coastal Economies
2020-06-15
Exploring coastal regions and understanding their specific needs through data.
Local Authority COVID-19 dashboard
2020-04-02
Visualising COVID-19 cases by Local Authority. The initial dashboard has been archived and a replacement version was made in autumn 2020.
Open Data Saves Lives
2020-03
Convening people to drive innovation in health data and respond to a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic.
Cycle/foot Traffic Growth
2020-02-26
A project visualising cycle and foot traffic growth data from Data Mill North. Select cycle counters and see bar charts by hour of day, day of week, month, and year.
Distribution Future Energy Scenarios
2019-10
An interactive visualisation of Northern Powergrid's potential future scenarios (DFES).
Divisions hex map
2019-08-29
Visualising House of Commons Divisions on a UK-wide constituency hex map.
Local Growth Funding Tracker
2019-07
Collaborative project with Joseph Rowntree Foundation to create a tool that tracks local growth funding.
Diversity Deep Dive
2019-04
Exploration and tools addressing UK business diversity data.
Scores on the doors
2019-03-07
A simple webpage that uses your location to tell you the food hygiene ratings for the nearest food premises to you.
Business Rates
2019-01
As part of the Open Data Collaboration group we looked at business rates data from local councils. This involved agreeing a common standard to publish and making visualisations of the data across councils.
CSV to GeoJSON
2018-07-25
A web-based tool to easily convert a CSV file (containing geography columns) into a GeoJSON file. It can also create choropleth maps based on LSOA, MSOA, WD19CD, PCON17CD, or LAD19CD
Data mapper
2018-06
Layering datasets from Data Mill North, Calderdale Data Works, Northern Data Hub, York Open Data, Salford Data Quay, Open Street Map and more.
Petitions hex map
2018-03-16
Visualising petiton data, from the UK Government and Parliament website, on a UK-wide constituency map.
Council Spending
2018-02-03
Quickly explore hundreds of megabytes and billions of pounds of payments published as open data by multiple councils and public bodies.
BestChoice
2016
Our tool displays waiting times for social housing and shows that waiting times can be significantly less if you apply for properties in certain wards.
The World of #PlanetData
2015-07
All our #PlanetData events and work on environment, emissions and energy in one place.
Leeds Bins
2015
Our app on iOS and Android uses open data from Leeds Data Mill to give reminders of bin days, and advice on recyling, to residents in Leeds.
Parkulator
2015
Our tool calculates the amount of land used for parking within a user-selected map area, and will tell you how many homes or parks could be built in the space instead.
Older projects
Leeds Digital Festival Data
2021-09
Measuring the impact of the Leeds Digital Festival
Covid Demographics
2021-07
Collating and visualising COVID-19 and demographic data across Yorkshire and the Humber for Magpie - a Leeds Digital Agency
Local elections 2021
2021-05
Visualising the 2021 local elections in Leeds and Calderdale using data from Democracy Club
Vaccines in England
2021-01
Displaying vaccines by dose, age group, and NHS ICS/STP area for England.
Privacy-first analytics
2021-01
Improving privacy in our web analytics
Northern Powergrid DFES 2020
2020-12
An interactive visualisation of Northern Powergrid's potential future scenarios (DFES) updated to 2020
EPC Data
2020-11
Exploring and analysing Energy Performance Certificate data for domestic properties
Half-term support for Free School Meals
2020-10
Visualising real-time crowd-sourced offers of support, from multiple Google Sheets, on a web map. By the end of the week there were over 2300 offers on the map.
Project Cygnus
2020-09-17
Partnering with Icebreaker One on their Project Cygnus initiative
Local Authority COVID-19 hexmaps
2020-05
A variety of data - from testing to deaths to furloughed employments - shown on hex maps
Binnovation
2020-03
Using open data and open innovation to make waste services in Leeds better and more efficient in 2020.
General Election 2019
2019-12-12
We worked with New Statesman to create a live hex map of election results. We built a back-end system to record results and combined this with data from a variety of open sources.
Open Tree Logger
2019-11
Creating a web app to interface with Open Street Map and help add the world's trees to the map.
Flight Emissions
2019-10-15
Estimating flight emissions for Leeds Bradford Airport
OTP4GB
2019-09
Journey planning and accessibility mapping for all of GB, or any part of it, by Walking, Bicycle, Driving, Bus, and Public Transport of all forms except flying.
Carbon Dashboard
2019-06
Experiments in making a carbon dashboard
Postcodes to Latitudes and Longitudes
2019-06-05
Add Latitude/Longitude columns to CSV files containing Postcode columns.
Postcodes to IMD Deciles
2019-05-10
Following #hackforimpact we created a tool to make a socio-economic equivalent to Gender Pay Gap reporting. It takes postcodes as input and creates a 10-point histogram based on the corresponding Indices of Multiple Deprivation deciles.
Local elections Calderdale 2019
2019-05-01
Visualising the 2019 local elections in Calderdale using data from Democracy Club
Local elections Leeds 2019
2019-05-01
Visualising the 2019 local elections in Leeds using data from Democracy Club
CSVCleaner
2019-04-11
A simple tool to clean up some common issues with CSV files including date formats and values
Housing Monitoring Tool
2019-03
A project that explored the potential for using open data to help monitor new housing.
Leeds gender pay gap
2018-04-05
Graphing the reported gender pay gap for organisations based in Leeds.
Local elections 2018
2018-03-31
Visualising the 2018 local elections in Leeds using data from Democracy Club
UK broadband speed explorer
2018-03-15
Average broadband download speed (Mbit/s) visualised as part of our Ofcom data day
Tea Totaller
2018-03-07
We press a button on our Things Network Node each time we make a hot drink at ODI Leeds. The button sends a tiny radio message over The Things Network to our live visualisation.
Employment Explorer
2018-01
An interactive visualisation, created for GMB, of regional variations in self-employment and zero-hours contracts using ONS data
Supermarket CO2 emissions
2017-12-14
Estimated CO2 emissions from major supermarket brands across the UK. Calculated from known store locations and average annual CO2 emissions.
Common Ground
2017-11-28
Participatory mapping and citizen engagement to promote neighbourhood social action
ENCTS: concessionary travel usage
2017-11-23
After helping WYCA to publish concessionary travel data, we visualised the data set for each bus.
UK Tech Innovation Index
2017-08-01
The UK Tech Innovation Index measures both current activity and potential for innovation in seven technology sectors, for 36 UK cities.
Housing in Leeds Wards - Capacity for Improvement
2017-07-31
Using data from EPC certificates to establish the capacity for improvement of domestic properties by ward.
A Clearer Plan
2017
A tool to help town planners explain their decisions and reasoning using open data.
TravelHack
2017-06-20
A collaboration with Transport for the North to create a data strategy for their ambitious plan to make a multi-modal transport system for the North.
UK hex maps
2017-05-06
For the 2017 General Election we created an interactive hex map of UK parliamentary constituencies.
Roads named Garth
2017-04-12
We looked at the geographic spread of streets containing 'garth' in the UK and Ireland. The Viking origins of the word can be seen.
IoTUK Nation Database (Beta)
2017-03-27
A project with Bloom Agency and IoTUK/Digital Catapult to map the Internet of Things (IoT) sector across the UK.
#AirHack
2017-02-24
On 24th/25th Feb 2017 we hosted a two day hackathon around air quality with Defra, Leeds Council, Bradford Council, and Highways England.
Bradford Flood Network
2017-02-23
We're installing flood sensors around Bradford and making the data open.
LoRaWAN Mote
2017-01
A demonstration of an end-to-end IoT sensor built using a mote, a gateway, the Things Network and a NodeRed server.
Things Leeds and Bradford
2016-11
Providing open LoRaWAN-based Things Network access across Leeds and Bradford.
#HighwaysHack
2016-10-21
On 21st and 22nd October 2016 we hosted a two day hackathon with Highways England looking at highways data.
Leeds Energy Usage
2016-10
Explore half-hourly electricity usage data for a range of council properties.
West Yorkshire Allotments
2016-06
An experiment to improve West Yorkshire open data sets around allotments using Open Street Map.
Leeds Urban Commons
2016-06
A co-creation project by ODI Leeds, Leeds Love It Share It and Leeds City Lab.
Population Change
2016
Using data from the ONS we examined population changes in individual wards between 2002 and 2013 for five UK cities and metropolitan areas.
Region Explorer
2016
Our tool allows you to compare the economic performance of countries, regions, and sub-regions against each other.
Inequality in the UK
2016
We used open data from the ONS and created a graphing tool to explore differences in net weekly household income across the UK.
OpenAudience
2016
OpenAudience aims to help event's organisers better understand the make-up of their audiences, by using postcodes to get an idea of properties including income, age, and job type.
Schools Energy Explorer
2016
We have built a site to allow primary school pupils and their teachers to compare electricity usage at their school with other local schools in Leeds.
Meter Explorer
2016
Using data on energy consumption from Data Mill North we created a tool to explore electricity use at over 200 buildings managed by Leeds City Council.
Calderdale Data Works Explorer
2015
Sets of open data from the Calderdale Data Works were used to create an interactive map of Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
Higher Education Explorer
2016
This graphical tool uses open data to examine the links between access rates to higher education and child poverty in different UK regions.
Airports in the UK
2014
Using Google's flights API we analysed the global connectivity options from airports in the UK and proved that Schiphol, not Heathrow, is the UK's hub airport.
Floodhack
2016-03
On the 11th and 12th of March 2016, nearly a hundred people came to ODILeeds to pool knowledge, share ideas, and build solutions to flooding.
Our Data Mutual
2016
Our Data Mutual aims to create a platform for the management, monetisation, control, protection and 'use for good' of data.
IoTUK Boost
2015-11
Working with DataCity Leeds and the Digital Catapult Centre Yorkshire we organised events to boost the Internet of Things (IoT) across the Leeds City Region and Yorkshire.
Road Traffic Casualty Campaign
2015
This series of interactive data visualisations uses open data to explore details on road traffic casualties in Leeds between 2009 and 2014.
Leeds Data City
2015
The Data City aims to develop an ever growing database of assets in the Leeds region, and uses data visualisation tools to help visitors understand the strengths of the region.
Leeds Empties
2015
The Empty Homes Doctor is a not for profit business that works with Leeds City Council to help people to bring empty homes back into use.
#waterdata15
2015-07-10
Yorkshire Water held a two-day data dive at ODI Leeds, and out of the work of the nine teams there was an emergence of six themes.
Bus Start
2015-05-01
Our product evaluates bus routes and suggests changes that would better connect people with jobs.
Hack My Route
2015
Inspired by ski-route gradings, the #hackmyroute idea was to create a colour-coded map of streets using crowd sourcing.
Leeds Art Crawl
2014
Leeds Art Crawl is a open data game highlighting public art, space & audiences.