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Richard Stirling from The Open Data Institute (@theodi) talks about Open Data in the UK.

Richard Stirling talks about Open Data and Civic Participation

ODI Fridays lunchtime lecture, 13 December 2013.

In a decade of running data-heavy civic tech sites such as FixMyStreet, TheyWorkForYou and Mapumental, mySociety has learned a lot about how to gather, display, and archive data - and we have the yarns to prove it.

mySociety's senior consultant, Mike Thompson, talked through, amongst other things, why one of their sites breaks on an almost daily basis, how they combined open data sources and a routing algorithm to evaluate the accessibility of Welsh secondary schools and the guerilla data collection methods some councils have used to derive their bin collection calendar.

ODI Fridays: Five lessons from a decade working with open data

Jeni Tennison OBE, CTO of the ODI, outlines her version of an Open Data Christmas, by reading her letter to Santa.

For the end of 2013, we asked three Friday lunchtime lecturers - David Tarrant, Jeni Tennison and Patrick Hussey - to return and tell us their version or vision of an Open Data Christmas.


ODI Fridays: Open Data Christmas - Jeni Tennison OBE

Case Study Radio is a podcast series produced by SemanticWeb.com that focuses on case studies and successful "real world" implementations of Semantic Web standards, Linked Data, and other Semantic Technologies.

What Is Linked Data - Case Study Radio - Episode1

For our 14th February, 2014 lecture…
Climate change is global, yet solving the challenges are often local and bound up in policy making, industrial, organisational and personal decision making.

Co-founder of Cleanweb UK and entrepreneur Chris Adams explained the role can open data play in ensuring a cleaner world, and what data sets still need to be opened up.

ODI Fridays: What open data do we need for a greener, cleaner world? with Chris Adams of CleanwebUK

The ODI’s Data as Culture art programme aims to engage diverse audiences with artists and works that use data as an art material.

The 2014 commission explores our relationship with surveillance, privacy, and personal data, taking a critical and sometimes comedic look at the power of open data. Works include pneumatic contraptions, satellite imagery, data collection performances, and knitted data discrepancies.

Art curator Shiri Shalmy talked to Open Data institute’s Art Associate Julie Freeman about the curatorial process behind the 2014 Data as Culture exhibition.

Julie Freeman is the Art Associate at the ODI and heads up the Data as Culture art programme. She is a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London researching the convergence of biological data and kinetic art.*

Shiri Shalmy is an independent contemporary art curator working with artists and public art organisations nationally and internationally.

ODI Fridays: Data as culture 2014, with Julie Freeman & Shiri Shalmy

With UK tenants facing soaring rents, poor conditions, a lack of security and unfair practices from landlords and letting agents - the private rented sector is high on the public and political agenda. The Government says it wants to fix this yet it doesn’t even know how many landlords there are in the country.

Alex Hilton, Director of housing organisation Generation Rent, makes a plea for open data that can inform policy, drive up standards and help renters to get a better deal.


ODI Fridays: Generation Rent - empowering tenants through open data Friday, with Alex Hilton

Data from the High Speed 2 project has been released under an Open Government Licence. This has provided companies like Landmark an opportunity to enter the world of “Open”. 

Jez Nicholson told us about the product that Landmark has built upon the HS2 data and how “Open” may have ultimately changed the business itself.

By day, Jez Nicholson is Head of Product Development for a leading property risk assessment company. By night, he is lead developer of OpenPlaques.org.

With kind thanks to Thomson Reuters for supporting and hosting this event.

Our videos: https://vimeo.com/theodiuk
Our audio: https://soundcloud.com/theodi
Our slides: https://www.scribd.com/OpenDataInstitute
Our photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ukodi/
Our website: theodi.org

Friday lunchtime lecture: Changing tracks with HS2 open data



One thing we won’t be short of in the future is data – we’ll have detailed analytics about how we live and the world around us. But what about the past? Is it possible to pull together data about the history of our cities and gain some insight into the past?

In this lecture, Leigh Dodds introduced a project from Bath: Hacked, that is using historical maps and cultural heritage open data to let people begin exploring 400 years of Bath’s history.

Leigh Dodds is an associate with the Open Data Institute and the manager of Bath: Hacked’s data store.

Our videos: bit.ly/odi_vimeo
Our photos: bit.ly/odi_flickr
Our audio: bit.ly/odi_soundcloud
Our slides: bit.ly/odi_scribd
Our tweets: bit.ly/ODIHQ_tweets
Our website: theodi.org
ODI Summit videos: bit.ly/odisummit_video
What is open data?: bit.ly/what-is-open-data

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Friday lunchtime lecture: Time travelling with open data

Listen to podcasts from the Open Data Institute – discussing the impacts of data across areas including health, cities, the built environment, government and finance. Speakers also delve into issues around data ethics, trust, art, culture, corruption and accountability.

ODI Fridays: Five lessons from a decade working with open data

The Open Data Institute

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