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Older data projects
These are older projects that we've worked on that may no longer be current. You can also check out our current projects.
UK wards hex cartogram
October 2024 - April 2025
A project to build a hex cartogram of 2024 UK wards similar to the effort to create an MSOA cartogram by the House of Commons Library.
Northern Powergrid DFES 2023
January 2024 - January 2025
An interactive visualisation of Northern Powergrid's potential future energy scenarios (DFES) updated to 2023
NPG Primary Geographies
October 2023 - January 2024
Making Northern Powergrid Primary polygons using 2021 Census data
National Grid Regional FES 2023
June 2023 - June 2024
We helped National Grid update their future energy scenario visualisation for 2023.
JRF Northern Insight Finder
April 2023 - September 2023
A data and insight hub that, by linking up existing open-source datasets, aims to provide ease of access to data for the North of England that would be, otherwise, scattered across different websites, and that would require time, skills and resources to be joined up, analysed and visualised.
West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce LSIPs
January 2023 - May 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
December 2022 - January 2024
An interactive visualisation of UK Power Network's potential future energy scenarios (DFES) for 2022
Northern Powergrid DFES 2022
December 2022 - January 2024
An interactive visualisation of Northern Powergrid's potential future energy scenarios (DFES) updated to 2022
Register of Members' Financial Interests Competency Answerability Dashboard
November 2022 - January 2023
A tool to explore the ability of the current or future Registers of Members' Financial Interests rulesets to answer a series of competencies (questions) established during reviews of the registers.
Leeds Digital Festival data microsite
August 2022 - December 2022
A dashboard showing the key metrics and festival reports for the Leeds Digital Festival
Open Transport Planner 4 GB
June 2022 - August 2022
A transport planning tool pipeline that generates travel time isochrones
Youth Futures Foundation
June 2022 - January 2025
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
May 2022 - June 2023
Working with National Grid ESO to show their regional Future Energy Scenarios.
Local elections 2022
May 2022 - May 2023
Visualising the 2022 local elections in Leeds and Calderdale using data from Democracy Club
EValuator
March 2022 - April 2024
A prototype which demonstrates an approach to integrated planning across several disciplines (land use, sustainability, energy, transport).
Leeds 2023
February 2022 - April 2024
Helping Leeds 2023 with all things data…
Pool Data
January 2022 - June 2022
Support to create a catalyst programme for data unions
UK Power Networks DFES 2021
December 2021 - January 2023
An interactive visualisation of UK Power Network's potential future energy scenarios (DFES) for 2021
Northern Powergrid DFES 2021
December 2021 - January 2023
An interactive visualisation of Northern Powergrid's potential future energy scenarios (DFES) updated to 2021
Leeds Digital Festival Data
September 2021 - December 2021
Measuring the impact of the Leeds Digital Festival
Diversity Data Builder
September 2021 - December 2023
A tool to help people create or update a CSV file following the Diversity Data Standard for Diversity Dashboards.
Leeds City Region Diversity Dashboard
September 2021 - December 2023
Created for the Leeds Anchors Network this dashboard aims to show data relating to employee demographics from Leeds employers
Data Ethics
August 2021 - December 2024
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
August 2021 - December 2024
A tool to help local authorities and community energy groups forecast and plan energy efficiency and low carbon heating solutions.
Government organisation website emissions
August 2021 - June 2022
How are government websites impacting the planet? We measured the effective CO2 emissions from 577 UK Government organisations.
Knaresborough Connectors
July 2021 - April 2023
Helping Knaresborough Chamber of Trade and Commerce understand their local economy.
Covid Demographics
July 2021 - December 2021
Collating and visualising COVID-19 and demographic data across Yorkshire and the Humber for Magpie - a Leeds Digital Agency
River Data: Wharfe
July 2021 - August 2021
Working with Yorkshire Water to identify the new and existing datasets that could help explore the health of our rivers.
UK Data Landscape
June 2021 - December 2024
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
June 2021 - December 2023
How are university websites impacting the planet? We measured the effective CO2 emissions from every UK university.
Local elections 2021
May 2021 - May 2021
Visualising the 2021 local elections in Leeds and Calderdale using data from Democracy Club
Vaccines in England
January 2021 - December 2021
Displaying vaccines by dose, age group, and NHS ICS/STP area for England.
Privacy-first analytics
January 2021 - December 2021
Improving privacy in our web analytics
UK Power Networks Open Data Enablement
April 2021 - February 2022
Support for UK Power Networks Open Data programme
Northern Powergrid DFES 2020
December 2020 - January 2022
An interactive visualisation of Northern Powergrid's potential future energy scenarios (DFES) updated to 2020
EPC Data
November 2020 - December 2020
Exploring and analysing Energy Performance Certificate data for domestic properties
Radically Open Recovery
October 2020 - April 2024
What data do we need to look ahead to a post-pandemic world?
Half-term support for Free School Meals
October 2020 - December 2020
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
September 2020 - December 2020
Partnering with Icebreaker One on their Project Cygnus initiative
Local Authority COVID-19 hexmaps
May 2020 - June 2021
A variety of data - from testing to deaths to furloughed employments - shown on hex maps
Local Authority COVID-19 dashboard
April 2020 - April 2024
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
March 2020 - March 2024
Convening people to drive innovation in health data and respond to a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic.
Binnovation
March 2020 - July 2021
Using open data and open innovation to make waste services in Leeds better and more efficient in 2020.
General Election 2019
December 2019 - December 2020
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
November 2019 - December 2020
Creating a web app to interface with Open Street Map and help add the world's trees to the map.
Flight Emissions
October 2019 - October 2020
Estimating flight emissions for Leeds Bradford Airport
Distribution Future Energy Scenarios for Northern Powergrid 2019
October 2019 - December 2020
An interactive visualisation of Northern Powergrid's potential future energy scenarios (DFES).
Tree height tool
September 2019 - December 2019
A tool to measure the heights of trees (or anything really) by using the camera on a smart phone along with the distance to the tree.
OTP4GB
September 2019 - December 2021
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.
Divisions hex map
August 2019 - May 2024
Visualising House of Commons Divisions on a UK-wide constituency hex map.
Carbon Dashboard
June 2019 - December 2019
Experiments in making a carbon dashboard
Postcodes to Latitudes and Longitudes
June 2019 - 2019-06-05
Add Latitude/Longitude columns to CSV files containing Postcode columns.
Postcodes to IMD Deciles
May 2019 - 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
May 2019 - May 2019
Visualising the 2019 local elections in Calderdale using data from Democracy Club
Local elections Leeds 2019
May 2019 - May 2019
Visualising the 2019 local elections in Leeds using data from Democracy Club
Diversity explorer
April 2019 - December 2019
Explore how ethnic diversity varies with age across England and Wales.
CSVCleaner
April 2019 - 2019-04-11
A simple tool to clean up some common issues with CSV files including date formats and values
Diversity Deep Dive
April 2019 - December 2024
Exploration and tools addressing UK business diversity data.
Housing Monitoring Tool
March 2019 - June 2019
A project that explored the potential for using open data to help monitor new housing.
Business Rates
January 2019 - April 2024
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.
Open Transport North
October 2018 - December 2022
Open Transport North aimed to deliver open innovation with data to improve the transport network.
Local elections 2018
March 2018 - May 2018
Visualising the 2018 local elections in Leeds using data from Democracy Club
UK broadband speed explorer
March 2018 - September 2018
Average broadband download speed (Mbit/s) visualised as part of our Ofcom data day
Tea Totaller
March 2018 - 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.
Council Spending
February 2018 - August 2022
Quickly explore hundreds of megabytes and billions of pounds of payments published as open data by multiple councils and public bodies.
Employment Explorer
January 2018 - January 2019
An interactive visualisation, created for GMB, of regional variations in self-employment and zero-hours contracts using ONS data
Supermarket CO2 emissions
December 2017 - 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
November 2017 - May 2019
Participatory mapping and citizen engagement to promote neighbourhood social action
ENCTS: concessionary travel usage
November 2017 - November 2017
After helping WYCA to publish concessionary travel data, we visualised the data set for each bus.
UK Tech Innovation Index
August 2017 - August 2018
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
July 2017 - December 2017
Using data from EPC certificates to establish the capacity for improvement of domestic properties by ward.
A Clearer Plan
2017 - 2017
A tool to help town planners explain their decisions and reasoning using open data.
TravelHack
June 2017 - June 2017
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 constituency hex maps 2017
May 2017 - 2017-05-06
For the 2017 General Election we created an interactive hex map of UK parliamentary constituencies.
Roads named Garth
April 2017 - April 2017
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)
March 2017 - 2017-03-27
A project with Bloom Agency and IoTUK/Digital Catapult to map the Internet of Things (IoT) sector across the UK.
#AirHack
February 2017 - February 2017
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
February 2017 - 2017-02-23
We're installing flood sensors around Bradford and making the data open.
LoRaWAN Mote
January 2017 - 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
November 2016 - 2016-11
Providing open LoRaWAN-based Things Network access across Leeds and Bradford.
#HighwaysHack
October 2016 - October 2016
On 21st and 22nd October 2016 we hosted a two day hackathon with Highways England looking at highways data.
Leeds Energy Usage
October 2016 - 2016-10
Explore half-hourly electricity usage data for a range of council properties.
West Yorkshire Allotments
June 2016 - 2016-06
An experiment to improve West Yorkshire open data sets around allotments using Open Street Map.
Leeds Urban Commons
June 2016 - March 2017
A co-creation project by ODI Leeds, Leeds Love It Share It and Leeds City Lab.
BestChoice
2016 - December 2023
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.
Population Change
2016 - 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 - 2016
Our tool allows you to compare the economic performance of countries, regions, and sub-regions against each other.
Inequality in the UK
2016 - 2016
We used open data from the ONS and created a graphing tool to explore differences in net weekly household income across the UK.
Open Audience
2016 - 2016
Open Audience 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 2016
This graphical tool uses open data to examine the links between access rates to higher education and child poverty in different UK regions.
Parkulator
2015 - 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.
Airports in the UK
2014 - 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
March 2016 - March 2016
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 - 2016
Our Data Mutual aims to create a platform for the management, monetisation, control, protection and 'use for good' of data.
IoTUK Boost
November 2015 - March 2016
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 - 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 - August 2017
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 - 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
July 2015 - July 2015
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
May 2015 - September 2017
Our product evaluates bus routes and suggests changes that would better connect people with jobs.
Hack My Route
2015 - 2015
Inspired by ski-route gradings, the #hackmyroute idea was to create a colour-coded map of streets using crowd sourcing.