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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...

Project: Local authority empty homes

Wednesday 20th April 2022 6:20PM

Calculating vacant home and long-term vacant home percentages for areas of England.

...Housing England. Choose a local authority, combined authority, or region of England to see how many homes there are, and what percentage of them are vacant by different measures.. Local authority: ...

Blog: Open transport planning and booze.

Published: Monday 26 April 2021, 23:00

The UK has fantastic open transport data, and fantastic whisk(e)y.

...Open transport planning and booze.. What a joy it is to celebrate a field where the UK is among the best in the world.. It’s not even arguable, we are really good at open public transport data. And ...

Blog: Evolution of ODI Leeds

Published: Tuesday 7 September 2021, 12:25PM

Exciting changes are afoot for ODI Leeds but the core ethos of the organisation will remain

...Evolution of ODI Leeds. Hello everyone, we have exciting news to share! We are delighted to announce the next phase of our evolution - ODI Leeds is becoming Open Innovations.. From 1 November 2021, we...

Blog: Transport accessibility in North England.

Published: Tuesday 8 June 2021, 17:00

Calculating accessibility isochrones and connectivity matrixes for every MSOA in North England and by all modes of transport.

...Transport accessibility in North England.. On Wednesday 17 July 2019, Stef Garasto of NESTA gave a talk in Cambridge at The Productivity Insights Network special sessions. It shaped a lot of the work ...

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 ...

Project: Employment Explorer

Tuesday 16th November 2021 10:34AM

...Employment Data Explorer. Regional variations in self-employment and zero-hours contracts Select a dataset Self Employment. Total Total Change % Percent % Percent Change Zero Hours Contracts. Total ...

Project: Tracking Local Growth Funding in the UK

Tuesday 2nd November 2021 12:18PM

Collaborative data project with JRF

...Tracking Local Growth Funding in the UK. In a new collaborative project started in summer 2019 with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, ODI Leeds will be working to create a visual 'dashboard' that can ...

Blog: Levelling up with data.

Published: Friday 05 November 2021, 17:30

Using open data to define levelling up.

...Levelling up with data.. The 2019 Conservative Manifesto mentioned levelling up 11 times. It was variously defined as making sure that,. "everyone can get a fair share of future prosperity". "the UK...

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: Coastal Economies

Tuesday 2nd November 2021 12:19PM

Collaborative data project with the UK Major Ports Group

...Coastal Economies. --> We are an island, so we have a lot of coastline. Which also means we have a lot of coastal areas that have very niche and complex economies that are, sadly, not understood well ...

Blog: Open modelling of the benefits of transport investment.

Published: Tuesday 10 August 2021, 21:00

Using open methods to model the potential benefits of transport investment.

...Open modelling of the benefits of transport investment.. I’ve written before about the excellent open data on public transport timetables that’s available in the UK.. A few weeks later I wrote ...

Blog: Quantifying regional inequality.

Published: Tuesday 19 January 2021, 07:00AM

How do we measure regional inequality and what's it got to do with Brexit?

...Quantifying regional inequality.. How do we measure regional inequality and what's it got to do with Brexit?. Today UK in a Changing Europe , a research group hosted by King's College London, are ...

Blog: Data and bus franchising in Greater Manchester

Published: Thursday 2 January 2020, 10:50AM

What better bus data could accomplish

...Data and bus franchising in Greater Manchester. Over the festive period, Tom Forth, our Head of Data, created a submission for the TfGM consultation about bus franchising, and specifically how data ...

Blog: Every bin in the world

Published: Friday 31 July 2020, 5:30PM

Extracting all the waste and recycling bins from Open Street Map

...Every bin in the world. This blog post follows on from Tom Forth's " Six months of binnovation " Recently we've been exploring radically open ways for councils to store and publish their bin data. ...

Blog: Is the coast poor? Part 2

Published: Tuesday 22 September 2020, 05:00AM

The coast is just a line isn't it?

...How long is the coast? How many dimensions does it have?. Is the coast poor? Part 2. In the previous blog post of this project I explained how and why we’d spent two months creating maps like this ...

Blog: Six months of binnovation in Leeds.

Published: Friday 17 July 2020, 3:56PM

Seven ways open data and open innovation has made waste services in Leeds better and more efficient in 2020.

...Six months of binnovation in Leeds.. Seven ways open data and open innovation has made waste services in Leeds better and more efficient in 2020... 1. The Leeds Bins app got live alerts and links.. ...

Blog: Three new tools launched to track spending in the UK

Published: Wednesday 11 March 2020, 9:31AM

Three new tools have been developed as part of the project working with Joseph Rowntree Foundation

...Three new tools launched to track spending in the UK. We kicked off this project in July 2019 and we've been listening since then. Our strongest direction came from the open workshop we held in August...

Blog: Diversity Explorer 2.0

Published: Friday 11 September 2020, 18:00PM

Using data to see if organisations represent their places and their public.

...Diversity Explorer 2.0. Opinions on diversity are diverse. At ODILeeds we’ve been working with the public and with our sponsors to listen to as many as possible. Our sponsor Yorkshire Water, ...

Blog: Best Bin Placement?

Published: Friday 28 August 2020, 06:00AM

Using open data to optimise public bin placement in Leeds.

...Best Bin Placement: using open data to optimise public bin placement in Leeds.. How many public bins does Leeds need and where should we put them?. We've been trying to answer that question using two ...

Blog: ODI Leeds' response to the National Data Strategy

Published: Friday 27 November 2020, 2:45PM

Consultation on the National Data Strategy is open, here is our response

...ODI Leeds' response to the National Data Strategy. The National Data Strategy has been on the tip of tongues since June 2019, with a multitude of reactions and responses from organisations far and ...

Blog: Is the UK coast poor?

Published: Tuesday 18 August 2020, 2:09PM

Using data to try and answer a very difficult question.

...Is the UK coast poor?. Using data and maps to answer a difficult simple question.. For months I've been trying to answer that simple question by talking with people, assembling data, and writing ...

Blog: Tracking local funding - a new project with JRF

Published: Tuesday 2 July 2019, 9:09AM

Understanding the patterns of funding so we can plan and prepare for future funding

...Tracking local funding - a new project with JRF. The economic and productivity imbalance across the UK is not a recent issue, and successive governments have tried different approaches over the ...

Blog: Funding for local growth

Thursday 26 September 2019, 3PM.

Funding for local growth what we've learned in phase 1.

...Funding for local growth. Funding for local growth what we've learned in phase 1.. Just over two months ago we started our project to figure out how we could track local funding. It was quite an ...

Blog: Real Journey Times Project

Published: Thursday 27 September 2018, 2:14PM

Using real-time bus data to create a new dataset

...Real Journey Times Project. Preamble. A group of Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) staff were enjoying a drink after work in a city centre bar, celebrating the birthday of one of the team when in ...

Blog: Releasing Synthetic A

Published: Tuesday 13 November 2018, 12:39PM

The potential benefits of synthetic data, and how you can help with the next step.

...Releasing Synthetic A&E Data. Over the coming months we're working with the NHS to release synthetic data regarding A&E departments - specifically the waiting times for individuals and what this means...

Blog: Building the TRUE tool

Saturday, 10 March, 2018.

Building the TRUE tool and the TRUE process at ODILeeds.

...Building the TRUE tool. Building the TRUE tool and the TRUE process at ODILeeds.. In Autumn 2017 a team at ODILeeds joined a University of Leeds project called TRUE: transformational routemapping for ...

Blog: Why open data can save the East Coast Rail franchise

Published: Friday 25 May 2018, 16:20

On 16th May, the DfT announced the collapse of the East Coast rail franchise. With the launch of London North Eastern Railway (LNER) it will once again be run by an arm of the UK government.

...Why open data can save the East Coast Rail franchise. On 16th May, the DfT announced the collapse of the East Coast rail franchise. With the launch of London North Eastern Railway (LNER) it will once ...

Blog: The ONS and us

Wednesday, 16 May 21:45

The ONS is getting really good at regional statistics. ODILeeds explains how it could do even better.

...The ONS and us. ODILeeds and regional statistics. ODILeeds and our sponsors are big users of The ONS’s data. We’re big contributors too. And with projects like our IoTUK Nation database , ...

Blog: Conservative Manifesto

Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:30

Data and The Conservative Party Manifesto.

...Conservative Manifesto. Data and The Conservative Party Manifesto. We always like it when politicians come to Yorkshire and we’ve had the two largest political parties over in God’s own county ...

Blog: PDFs and Data

Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:00

PDFs and Data: making PDFs play nicely with data and open data.

...PDFs and Data. PDFs and Data: making PDFs play nicely with data and open data.. PDFs are the world's standard for documents that people can trust. They look great, they preserve design, and they print...

Blog: PDF and data

Tuesday, 17 October 2017 09:00

ODI Report: Best Practices for PDF and Data.

...Best Practices for PDF and Data. Best Practices for PDF and Data.. Earlier this year we shared news that we were working with Adobe and The ODI in London to investigate how PDFs could play nicely with...

Blog: Data and travel

Tuesday, 13 June 2017 12:00

We bring together some travel-related data sources to set the scene for Travelhack on June 20th

...Data and travel. No matter how you travel, you're probably creating data.. If you walk, footfall sensors are counting you. Leeds releases its city centre footfall as open data.. If you hire a bicycle ...

Blog: House prices by ward

Tuesday, 17 October 2017 00:01

Calculating house prices by ward using open data and open code.

...House prices by ward. Calculating house prices by ward using open data and open code.. We've long argued that data and expertise has to be releavant on the scales that people live there lives. Often ...

Blog: Progress with PDFs and Data

Saturday, 13 May 16:00

Progress with PDFs and Data.

...Progress with PDFs and Data. Blogs and progress.. A month ago I wrote the first blog post about our project with ODI and Adobe on how PDFs of today and the future can work better with data. We've been...

Blog: The Internet of Bats

Monday, 24 July 2017 13:00

Open innovation, and bats.

...The Internet of Bats. Open innovation, and bats..  . Whenever we start a project at ODILeeds we always ask “what question are you trying to answer?”. From that, the rest usually follows.. We ...

Blog: Defra Data Unconference

Thursday, 15 December 2016 15:00

Paul Connell and Tom Forth spent a day at the Defra Data Unconference in Birmingham. Here is what they got up to.

...Defra Data Unconference. In late November, Paul Connell and Tom Forth of ODI Leeds had an away day at Defra's Data Unconference at iCentrum in Birmingham. This marks the start of conversations with ...

Blog: Leeds Bins

Saturday, 17 December 2016 19:00

Leeds Bins: the challenges and rewards of building an app powered by open data.

...Leeds Bins. Leeds Bins: the challenges and rewards of building an app powered by open data.. Leeds Bins is an app that tells you when your bins will be collected in Leeds. It's simple, it's been used ...

Blog: Open Smart Cities and Places - Hebden Bridge

Friday, 26 August 2016 10:00

On 6th September lots of people who play, think, and work with smart cities will be in Hebden Bridge. We want to hear what they do.

...Open Smart Cities and Places - Hebden Bridge. Open Smart Cities and Places. Illustration by Amy Evans On 6th September lots of people who play, think, and work with smart cities will be in Hebden ...