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Team check-in ordering

Wednesday 12th April 2023 9:03AM

The team in a random order for daily check-in

...Team check-in ordering. Breakdown of 117 team check-ins where the order has been recorded. Percentages are calculated for each person individually i.e. the number of times they have been first divided...

Project: Youth Futures Foundation

Tuesday 21st February 2023 2:45PM

Hub page documenting work done with Youth Futures Foundation

...Youth Futures Foundation. Youth Futures Foundation. Interview with Andrea Barry. We are delighted to be working with Youth Futures Foundation to support them in showcasing some of the work they have ...

Open Innovations Review 2022

Wednesday 8th February 2023 12:45PM

The 2022 summary of events, projects, and sponsors at Open Innovations.

...Download report as PDF DRAFT--> Open Innovations Annual review 2022. Contents. Introduction. Who are we?. What do we do?. Who do we work with?. How do we work?. Why does our work matter?. Here is what...

Blog: Planning electric vehicle bulk charging locations with Open Data

Published: Wednesday 27 April 2022, 09:43AM

We've just finished work on a prototype tool which aims to help planning Bulk EV Charging connections. Read about how we did it.

...Planning electric vehicle bulk charging locations with Open Data. We've recently completed a short project for Connected Places Catapult which considered ways of supporting Integrated Planning for Net...

Project: UK Data Landscape

Wednesday 31st August 2022 9:19AM

Project to explore and visualise the data landscape in the UK

...UK Data Landscape. What is a 'data landscape' and what does it look like? Well, that's just two of many questions that we hope to explore and answer via this project. As data becomes increasingly ...

Blog: Leeds 2023 Year of Culture Data Partners

Published: Wednesday 30 March 2022, 12:51PM

Open Innovations has recently been announced as data partner for the Leeds 2023 Year of Culture. Here's what we've got planned.

...Leeds 2023 Year of Culture Data Partners. We are delighted to be working with Leeds 2023 as their data partners. We’re looking forward to getting stuck in demonstrating the value of being open with ...

Blog: National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios

Published: Friday 22 July 2022, 10:42AM

We helped National Grid create visualisations to go with the release of their Future Energy Scenario data

...National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios. Over the past few years we've been helping Northern Powergrid and UK Power Networks to visualise their Distribution Future Energy Scenario (DFES) data. The ...

Blog: Reproducible Analytical Pipelines! Reproducible Analytical Pipelines! Reproducible Analytical Pipelines!

Published: Wednesday 14 September 2022, 14:12PM

...Reproducible Analytical Pipelines! Reproducible Analytical Pipelines! Reproducible Analytical Pipelines!. There’s a lot of talk about Reproducible Analytical Pipelines at the moment, ever since the ...

Project: ODI Leeds and Project Cygnus

Tuesday 2nd November 2021 12:19PM

Collaborative data project with Icebreaker One

...ODI Leeds and Project Cygnus. Project Cygnus is a EIT-Climate-KIC funded major new initiative for the UK & Ireland to support regions and countries in their economic recovery from Covid-19 while ...

Blog: Announcing the Diversity Dashboard

Published: Friday 26 November 2021, 3:00PM

...Announcing the Diversity Dashboard. Over the past year or so we've been working with the team at Yorkshire Water to create a Diversity Dashboard for the Leeds City Region. This presents the workforce ...

Blog: COVID

Published: Wednesday 8 September 2021, 5:39PM

Collating data on COVID and demographics across Yorkshire and the Humber

...COVID & Demographics in Yorkshire. We've done a lot of work over the past year or so collating and visualising COVID-19 data , especially COVID-19 data at Local Authority level. As a result we were ...

Blog: Improving privacy in our web analytics

Published: Tuesday 19 January 2021, 2:56PM

...Improving privacy in our web analytics. We wrote recently about our aim to improve our website analytics whilst maximising the privacy. Our current approach, using web access logs ( with additional ...

Blog: Open Data triage: Deciding which data can be safely released

Published: Friday 16 July 2021, 10:45AM

ODI Leeds and UK Power Networks are defining company-wide approaches to releasing data. How do we decide what can be unlocked safely?

...Open Data triage: Deciding which data can be safely released. UK Power Networks and ODI Leeds are working together to define what a "Presumed Open" network operator looks like. One of the most ...

Project: Radically Open Recovery

Tuesday 2nd November 2021 12:18PM

Collecting together work about the post-pandemic recovery

...Radically Open Recovery. It is hard to think about 'life after COVID' but this crisis will pass, and right now we have an opportunity to think about what that post-pandemic world could look like. ...

Project: Hex map of UK constituencies

Tuesday 2nd November 2021 12:18PM

The 2019 UK General Elections results on a constituency hex map.

...GE 2019 Dissolution GE 2017 GE 2015 Visualisation: ODI Leeds / Data: New Statesman , Britain Elects , Electoral Commission , Parliament ( 2015 & 2017 ), They Work For You ( CC-BY-SA ), Democracy Club...

Blog: Announcing our data partnership with Leeds Digital Festival

Published: Friday 10 September 2021, 10:15AM

...Announcing our data partnership with Leeds Digital Festival. We are excited to be working with Leeds Digital Festival Credit: Leeds Digital Festival We're delighted to announce a partnership with ...

Blog: How has COVID-19 affected education?

Published: Wednesday 7 October 2020, 1:55PM

Can you help us create a view of the impact that COVID-19 has had on the education sector?

...How has COVID-19 affected education?. We've recently begun work on a project led by ODI HQ to look into the impact of COVID-19 on education. The team is still ironing out the fine details of the study...

Blog: Open Data Day 2020 - Mapping challenges galore

Published: Friday 3 April 2020, 2:44PM

A small gathering but with some interesting challenges

...Open Data Day 2020 - Mapping challenges galore. Open Data Day takes place on the first Saturday of March every year and is a celebration of all things open data. Hundreds of events take place all over...

Blog: The Hex Election

Published: Wednesday 18 March 2020, 9:51AM

We worked with New Statesman to create live hex maps for results of the 2019 General Election

...The Hex Election. In November 2019 ODI Leeds was approached by New Statesman and Britain Elects to create a live visualisation of the 2019 General Election results for use before and during election ...

Blog: Making URIs Cool again

Published: Wednesday 22 April 2020, 2:50PM

Thanks to the 'power of Open' we've managed to patch up a broken link people had come to rely on.

...Making URIs Cool again. UPDATE: As of 21st April, the official case data CSV and death data CSV is downloadable directly from the dashboard app. You may have seen our recent blog post discussing using...

Blog: Privacy-first web analytics

Published: Tuesday 15 December 2020, 2:12PM

...Privacy-first web analytics. What are web analytics? Many website owners want to know which pages on their website are popular and which are not. That way they can improve their site, make it easier ...

Blog: Open data foundations - building a housing tool

Published: Wednesday 19 June 2019, 2:53PM

Is it possible to count and monitor new housing using just open data?

...Open data foundations - building a housing tool. Back in March, we announced a new collaborative project with Future Cities Catapult (now called Connected Places Catapult) all about investigating the ...