Data projects
Working on data projects to deliver tangible outcomes is at the very heart of our mission and purpose. Find out more about our latest work below. You can get a list of our projects as a CSV file (on Github) from our dashboard.
Leeds City Council Economics
Started: April 2023
JRF Northern Insight Finder
Started: April 2023
A live data hub focused on poverty statistics for the North
Leeds Schools Cultural Engagement
Started: February 2023
Creating a prototype resource to map cultural engagement in schools across the city to support evidence-based policy making.
Placename heatmap
Started: February 2023
Create a heat map of UK place names based on patterns you want to match.
OI Lume Viz
Started: January 2023
To support some of the more complex visualisations in Lume, we've encapsulated a number of our charting libraries
Northern Powerhouse Partnership Tax Devolution
Started: January 2023
A web app to see how much you can raise through different local taxes.
West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce LSIPs
Started: January 2023
A live dashboard of vacancies and job seekers to assist West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce in facilitating for training and educational curricula to be tailored to the specific needs of the local business community.
UK Power Networks DFES 2022
Started: December 2022
An interactive visualisation of UK Power Network's potential future scenarios (DFES) for 2022
Northern Powergrid DFES 2022
Started: December 2022
An interactive visualisation of Northern Powergrid's potential future scenarios (DFES) updated to 2022
Warm spaces directories
Started: November 2022
With a cost-of-living crisis and an energy-price crisis, lots of people will be cold this winter and looking for warm places to go. We've created a directory of directories of warm spaces and made a simple search tool to look through some of them.
Northern Economic Data User Group
Started: November 2022
We're seeking to build a network of willing collaborators who will share their experiences, their research, their code, their data and their expertise to advance economic research and understanding across North England.
Rotherham Bins
Started: November 2022
Our app on iOS and Android gives reminders of bin collections to residents in Rotherham.
Leeds City Council Economic Data Science Discovery
Started: October 2022
The Economic Data Dashboard (EDD) houses thousands of variables from hundreds of data sets of secondary and administrative data for multiple geographies within the United Kingdom.
Parkulator 2022
Started: October 2022
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
Started: June 2022
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
Started: May 2022
Working with National Grid ESO to show their regional Future Energy Scenarios.
Local elections 2022
Started: May 2022
Visualising the 2022 local elections in Leeds and Calderdale using data from Democracy Club
Register of Members' Financial Interests Explorer
Started: April 2022
Parsing and exploring the House of Commons Register of Members' Financial Interests
Housing England
Started: March 2022
Explore housing in England and see what percentage are vacant.
EValuator
Started: March 2022
A prototype which demonstrates an approach to integrated planning across several disciplines (land use, sustainability, energy, transport).
Leeds 2023
Started: February 2022
Helping Leeds 2023 with all things data…
UK Power Networks DFES 2021
Started: December 2021
An interactive visualisation of UK Power Network's potential future scenarios (DFES) for 2021
Northern Powergrid DFES 2021
Started: December 2021
An interactive visualisation of Northern Powergrid's potential future scenarios (DFES) updated to 2021
Diversity Data Builder
Started: September 2021
A tool to help people create or update a CSV file following the Diversity Data Standard for Diversity Dashboards.
Leeds City Region Diversity Dashboard
Started: September 2021
Created for the Leeds Anchors Network this dashboard aims to show data relating to employee demographics from Leeds employers
Data Ethics
Started: August 2021
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
Started: August 2021
A tool to help local authorities and community energy groups forecast and plan energy efficiency and low carbon heating solutions.
Government organisation website emissions
Started: August 2021
How are government websites impacting the planet? We measured the effective CO2 emissions from 577 UK Government organisations.
River Data: Wharfe
Started: July 2021
Working with Yorkshire Water to identify the new and existing datasets that could help explore the health of our rivers.
UK Data Landscape
Started: June 2021
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
Started: June 2021
How are university websites impacting the planet? We measured the effective CO2 emissions from every UK university.
OpenJourneyTime
Started: March 2021
MSOA to MSOA journey time pairs and MSOA-centred isochrones for North England
Council website emissions
Started: March 2021
How are council websites impacting the planet? We measured the effective CO2 emissions from every UK council homepage.
Radically Open Recovery
Started: October 2020
What data do we need to look ahead to a post-pandemic world?
Coastal Economies
Started: June 2020
Exploring coastal regions and understanding their specific needs through data.
Local Authority COVID-19 dashboard
Started: April 2020
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
Started: March 2020
Convening people to drive innovation in health data and respond to a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic.
Cycle/foot Traffic Growth
Started: February 2020
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
Started: October 2019
An interactive visualisation of Northern Powergrid's potential future scenarios (DFES).
Divisions hex map
Started: August 2019
Visualising House of Commons Divisions on a UK-wide constituency hex map.
Local Growth Funding Tracker
Started: July 2019
Collaborative project with Joseph Rowntree Foundation to create a tool that tracks local growth funding.
Diversity Deep Dive
Started: April 2019
Exploration and tools addressing UK business diversity data.
Scores on the doors
Started: March 2019
A simple webpage that uses your location to tell you the food hygiene ratings for the nearest food premises to you.
Business Rates
Started: January 2019
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
Started: July 2018
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
Started: June 2018
Layering datasets from Data Mill North, Calderdale Data Works, Northern Data Hub, York Open Data, Salford Data Quay, Open Street Map and more.
Luton Bins
Started: May 2018
Our app on iOS and Android gives reminders of bin collections to residents in Luton.
Petitions hex map
Started: March 2018
Visualising petiton data, from the UK Government and Parliament website, on a UK-wide constituency map.
Council Spending
Started: February 2018
Quickly explore hundreds of megabytes and billions of pounds of payments published as open data by multiple councils and public bodies.
Fenland Bins
Started: September 2017
Our app on iOS and Android gives reminders of bin collections to residents in Fenland.
BestChoice
Started: December 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
Started: July 2015
All our #PlanetData events and work on environment, emissions and energy in one place.
Leeds Bins
Started: December 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.
See our older projects.