Data Mill North scoops ODI Publisher Award!
Leeds based open data platform, DataMillNorth has been named Open Data Publisher of the year beating DEFRA and AGRIS (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations)
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York Open Data get playful in a new project
A new project uses data from York City Council’s open data platform to make data more accessible
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Data Mill North scoops ODI Publisher Award!
Leeds based open data platform, DataMillNorth has been named Open Data Publisher of the year beating DEFRA and AGRIS (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations)
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Civil partnerships: the ONS and the data journalist
The ONS release of data on civil partnerships highlights some of the the challenges of managing an open data approach when “all the data” becomes an expectation and lines get blurred.
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Mark Barret on open data and diabetes data dives
Mark Barrett talks about his involvement with the Yorkshire Catapults diabetes data dive
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Leeds Data Mill becomes Data Mill North
Leeds City Councils much lauded open data platform has joined forces with the City of Bradford and the Leeds node of the ODI to become Data Mill North
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Open data stops illegal parking tickets in NYC
Ben Wellington runs I Quant NY with the aim of proving how open data can make a city better. His experience with parking tickets proves his point and more.
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Bikes, API’s and the ‘fallacy of open data’
Even though they are considered an open data project, “Less than 10% of our feeds come from properly licensed, documented and machine-readable feeds.” That’s the startling stat from Lluís Esquerda the brains behind CityBik.es.
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How would you spend your council’s budget?
There’s a great interactive on the Coventry Telegraph site that lets plan your own budget and compare it the actual spend of your council. Just add your postcode and then set your budget.
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Leeds Residential Research features Leeds Data Mill
Estates Gazette have a nice piece on their “Pint of Milk Test” blog featuring the Leeds Data Mill. It highlights data from the Mill and work by Tom Forth to see “what the new build development market looks like in Leeds”
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Air Quality data and telling stories
One of the key areas of interest for the MediaMill project is the way data can be part of a storytelling process. So it was interesting to see a piece of ‘data-driven storytelling’ in the Gloucester Citizen.
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Freedom of Information Review and Open Data
Earlier this week Lord Burns’ Independent Commission on Freedom of Information legislation released its report. The Freedom of Information Act is something that cuts across all of the areas we are looking at as part of the MediaMill project. So we gave the report a once over with our open data hat on.
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Mapping Manchester crime data
The team over at the Trafford Innovation Lab have been experimenting with pulling in data from Police.co.uk to add to their Ward profiles
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Are PDF files open data?
Over the weekend James Arthur Cattell (doer of open data and one of the organisers of@UKGovCamp, @ODCamp) asked for thoughts on PDFs and open data.
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ePSI:2015 in review
The European Public Sector Information portal (ePSI) has released a review of the highlights from the past year in the world of Open Data and PSI
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MediaMill at NODA16/Tutki!2016 data journalism conference
We’ve had a paper on the Media Mill project accepted at the joint NODA16 and Tutki!2016, which focus on best practices in data journalism and investigative journalism.
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HebeWorks named one of the Top 50 Creative Companies For 2016
Congratulations to MediaMill project partners HebeWorks who have been named one of the Top 50 creative companies in the UK by creative England.
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TechcityInsider interview HEBE’s Mark Barrret
TechCityinsider.net have a nice audio interview with Mark Barrett from MediaMill project partners HebeWorks.
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Solomon dashboard in the news
HebeWorks’ Solomon dashboard got a nice write-up from Journalism.co.uk yesterday picking up on Marks appearance at the HLDJ conference.
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“You live here” York Open Data
HebeWorks have published a lovely bit of data-driven storytelling using data from the York Open Data mill and postcards.
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Everything you need to know about open data (and a bit more)
Leeds Data Mill have published a really nice list of resources for explaining open dat a complied by Edafe Onerhime. It’s a great resource of the who, what, how and why of open data.
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Storytellers of Leeds help shape Leeds City Dashboard
A short write up of the workshop held in July introducing the Leeds dashboard to a panel of journalists and storytellers from in and around Leeds.
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48 million rows of Open Data: Air Quality Leeds
HebeWorks and the City Talking have published a new data-driven feature on Air Quality in Leeds. The interactive site takes environmental and air quality data from the Leeds Data Mill to create data visualisations.
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Local open data ecosystems – a prototype map
Nesta have published new research that aims to highlight patterns in local authority open data publication
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Who is using open data?
Ben Worthy, blogging on the ODI site, finds that looking at the most viewed and downloaded datasets for data.gov.uk raises more interesting questions than it answers
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How to run an Open Data Challenge
Since 2013 Nesta has been running a series of open data challenges aimed at finding and supporting teams to develop products or services using open data for social good. Now they’ve released a report on what they’ve learned so far.