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Blog: Data Mill North 2.0
Published: Wednesday 20 May 2020, 11:36AM
We share our thoughts about what might be next for the popular data portal
Blog: Website carbon emissions
Published: Wednesday 29 April 2020, 5:37PM
Websites and online services produce CO2 emissions that are often forgotten about. Here are some tips on working out the emissions of your website and reducing them.
Blog: Make it easy for people to get your data
Published: Thursday 16 April 2020, 3:01PM
What happens when you change something and it breaks everything else?
Blog: Open Data Day 2020 - Mapping challenges galore
Published: Friday 3 April 2020, 2:44PM
A small gathering but with some interesting challenges
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
Blog: Cycle traffic growth
Published: Friday 28 February 2020, 4:29PM
Visualising the growth of cycle traffic in West Yorkshire using data published on Data Mill North
Blog: Eating your own dog food
Published: Friday 28 February 2020, 3:37PM
Using the data you publish gives you more incentive to keep the data quality high.
Blog: No more reports
Published: Friday 28 February 2020, 3:24PM
We created a data-driven web-page instead
Blog: Visualising Future Energy Scenarios
Published: Monday 9 December 2019, 10:18AM
Blog: Building electricity network geography
Published: Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:00 noon
Create geographies for Northern Powergrid's Primary Supply Points
Blog: Re-opening the bins
Published: Wednesday 4 September 2019, 10:40AM
Protecting the privacy of people as they look up their bin times
Project: OSMEditor
Friday 30th August 2019 12:01PM
Creating use-case-specific editors to help people add data to Open Street Map
Blog: Business rates
Published: Monday 5 August 2019, 10:35AM
Improving how local authorities publish business rates
Blog: Offices of Multiple Occupation
Published: Thursday 1 August 2019, 1:24PM
Addresses with 100s of registered companies may bias regional statistics.
Blog: Adding geography to your CSV files
Published: Thursday 6 June 2019, 2:59PM
Simple tools to help those who don't necessarily have access to a GIS team.
Blog: When visualisations go viral
Published: Tuesday 2 April 2019, 1:35PM
Blog: Scores on the doors
Published: Thursday 14 March 2019, 6:52PM
A location-based project to show you the food hygiene ratings of your nearest food establishments
Blog: Anonymisation and re-identification
Published: Friday 1 February 2019, 4:12PM
Blog: How are you using northern data?
Published: Wednesday 28 November 2018, 5:24PM
Data Mill North, Calderdale Data Works, and Northern Data Hub are asking for feedback
Blog: Open Data Camp 6
Published: Wednesday 7 November 2018, 5:09PM
Thoughts and observations from Open Data Camp 6 held in Aberdeen
Blog: Visit from the Secretary of State
Published: Friday 19 October 2018, 1:36PM
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care visited ODI Leeds to hear about innovation in the NHS
Blog: Crime maps
Published: Wednesday 26 September 2018, 4:44PM
We've added data.police.uk data on reported crimes in 2018 to the ODI Leeds Data Mapper
Blog: CSV to GeoJSON
Published: Thursday 26 July 2018, 2:37PM
A tool to convert CSV files into GeoJSON format for displaying on online maps
Blog: Data Mapper
Published: Friday 8 June 2018, 1:57PM
Building a tool to view multiple, open, geographic, data sets.
Blog: Insignificant figures
Published: Monday 4 June 2018, 3:54PM
Many open geographic datasets quote coordinates to atomic precision. Let's be more realistic with our geography.
Blog: Leeds local elections 2018
Published: Saturday, 14 April 2018 17:45
Blog: Visualising petition data
Published: Wednesday, 21 March 2018 13:15
Blog: The tea totaller
Published: Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:00
We use a LoRaWAN-connected button and sensor to record all the hot drinks made in our co-working space. Then we visualise the data.
Blog: Council spending data
Published: Thursday, 15 February 2018 09:30
A project to visualise public body spending data.
Blog: West Yorkshire GeoJSON
Published: Friday, 26 January 2018 16:18
Blog: Brownfield land registers
Published: Friday, 5 January 2018 15:30
A new year project to visualise West Yorkshire's brownfield land registers.
Project: Leeds EPC: Capacity for Improvement
Friday, 15 December 2017
EPCs detail data for each property’s current and potential performance for a number of indicators; the difference between the two can therefore be seen as the potential capacity for improvement (CfI). Here we publish CfI for EPCs within Leeds.
Blog: Bus usage in West Yorkshire
Wednesday, 29 November 2017 13:10
Visualising WYCA's ENCTS dataset.
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
Blog: 2017 General Election hex map
Friday, 9 June 2017 13:33
A write-up of our live 2017 General Election hex map
Blog: Data sudoku
Monday, 5 June 2017 16:35
Some thoughts on anonymising open data sets.
Blog: Visualising light
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:30
Visualising IoT light sensor data.
Blog: Election hex mapping
Monday, 8 May 2017 19:15
The 2017 UK parliamentary constituencies as a point-topped hex map.
Blog: Garth mapping
Wednesday, 12 April 2017 18:00
Garth comes from Middle English/Norse for a yard, garden, paddock, or an open quadrangle surrounded by a cloister. We plotted the distribution of garths on a map.
Blog: Visualising the IoTUK Nation Database
Monday, 27 March 2017 12:00
A few months ago we started a project with Bloom Agency and IoTUK/Digital Catapult to map the Internet of Things (IoT) sector across the UK. This is our write-up of the visualisations we created to go with the dataset.
Blog: Things coverage map
Tuesday, 28 February 15:55
Our attempts to build a map of Things Network coverage in Bradford, Leeds, and Manchester.
Blog: Bradford flood network
Friday, 17 February 16:32
Over the past couple of months we've been working with Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council and Bradford University to build a flood sensor network in Bradford.
Blog: Creating a helpful robot
Friday, 20 January 2017 16:00
We made a robot to autmotate parts of the website, then we gave it a name.
Blog: Fun with open data
Wednesday, 4 January 2017 11:25
In late November, with Christmas decorations going up, we had the idea for a data Advent calendar showcasing open data.
Blog: HighwaysHack - Data sets
Friday, 7 October 2016 17:00
HighwaysHack is nearly here. We've compiled a list of data sets that will be available.
Blog: Open allotments
Thursday, 11 August 2016 13:30
Here at ODI Leeds we're working on an Urban Commons project along with Leeds City Lab and others. As part of that we've been looking into open data sets about land use. As it is National Allotment Week, and to get the ball rolling, I started by looking at two small data sets on Data Mill North: Leeds City Council managed allotments and association managed allotments in Leeds.