Open Data Innovation
Open Data Aha!
About me ➢ I’ve worked in various sectors,
inc: retail, financial services, software services, local gov
➢ tech has featured in some way in all of them, as has data
➢ until 2015 I led the Hampshire Hub open data initiative
➢ I now work with people and organisations to help make the most of open data (Aha!)
Contact details --->
Mark Braggins [email protected] ‘Phone 07743 817215 Twitter @markbraggins LinkedIn markbraggins Open Data Aha! opendata-aha.net AHA Digital Ltd aha-digital.com
“Open data is data that anyone can
access, use and share.”
Source: Open Data Institute (ODI)
Open Data - different things to different people
Just a few areas open data can help: ● Saving lives ● Making (or saving) - money ● Transparency ● Partnerships / sharing
“‘Unfortunately, the evidence appears to be scarce.’”
Open Knowledge: Making Open Data Actionable and Impactful Authors: Tyrone Grandison, Jeff Chen
Open Data Aha!
Stories from across the World
➢ Stories from across the World
➢ Adding tags, categories, and location (where possible)
➢ Individual stories, and (RSS) feeds for the original publisher
➢ Approx 2100 so far, from 700+ sites,
➢ more being added daily
➢ looking for patterns, trends and gaps
➢ intend to publish stories as a dataset
➢ “Aha!” - that moment when someone “gets it” about open data
A quick look at England (so far)
Open Data stories
Devon
➢ Recently set-up as an ODI Network Node offering open data training
➢ Open Data Use Cases
➢ Community engagement (including stickers!)
➢ ‘Beyond The Smart City’ exploring wider ‘smart’ agenda
➢ Using open data as part of data-driven decision-making internally
➢ ODI Devon devon.theodi.org/
➢ Beyond The Smart City beyondthesmartcity.com/
➢ The Cloche Project - data story behind human resources
➢
Stickers galore!
Data helping to inform internal decision-making
Stickers galore! Use cases
Bath
➢ Bath: Hacked - council & local people (community interest company)
➢ Very active and engaged community
➢ Data store + events ➢ ‘live’ data feeds ➢ Apps which are useful to
citizens, inc ○ air quality ○ Car parking ○ bike share ○ school admissions ○ public toilets
➢ Bath: Hacked bathhacked.org/
Bristol
➢ Bristol Is Open - joint venture between Bristol City Council and University of Bristol
➢ Sensors inc smartphones & GPS devices
➢ A ‘city operating system’
➢ All data generated being anonymised and published as open data
➢ Bristol is Open bristolisopen.com/
Cambridgeshire
➢ Cambridgeshire Insight
➢ Strong mixture of
○ Open Data
○ research and analytical skills
○ Data stories
○ Data visualisation
○ Active engagement with local people, inc blogging and social media presence
➢ Cambridgeshire Insight cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk/
Hampshire & IoW
➢ Hampshire Hub (5* star linked open data)
➢ Collaboration with local technology businesses: ○ Flood Event Model ○ GP Pressure Map ○ Crowdsourcing
landscape change ○ Aerial photography
➢ local hacks & events ➢ Hosted 1st Open Data
Camp + BlueLightCamp ➢ ODI node Southern Policy
Centre
➢ Hampshire Hub hampshirehub.net
➢ Nquiringminds’ GP Pressure Map
➢ Hampshire Aerial Data Portal
➢ Know Now’s Flood Event Model
➢ RSAC’s Landscape Watch
➢ Minecraft Ventnor by Christopher Gutteridge
GP Pressure Map by Nquiringminds
Flood Event Model by Know Now
Minecraft Ventnor
‘Home’ of Open Data Aha!
London
➢ Winner of the ODI’s data publisher of the year 2015
➢ 500+ datasets
➢ Real-time feeds, APIs and widgets
➢ Lots of apps, particularly for transport
➢ Well resourced and championed by the Mayor of London
➢ London Datastore data.london.gov.uk/
➢ Transport for London (TfL) tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/
The London Datastore
London Connectivity map
Leeds
➢ Partnership between City Council and Hebe Works
➢ Active, engaged local community
➢ 200+ local datasets ➢ Exploiting media and
technology e.g. ○ customisable
dashboards, ○ apps like ‘Find My
Bin Day’ and Leeds Empties
○ data visualisations
➢ Leeds Data Mill leedsdatamill.org/
➢ Hebe Works hebeworks.com/
Leeds Superheroes vs super powers
Manchester
➢ Open Data Manchester Started in 2010 as part of Future Everything
➢ Creates ‘demand’ for open data
➢ Meets every month
➢ Active, expert, community
➢ Public data store
➢ Code fellows
➢ Hosted local open data event and Open Data Camp 2
➢ Open Data Manchester opendatamanchester.org.uk/
➢ Data GM datagm.org.uk/
➢ Local open data event blog.swirrl.com/articles/open-data-innovator-stories/
➢ Open Data Camp odcamp.org.uk
Trafford
➢ Trafford Innovation lab
➢ Data-driven decision-making (open and closed)
➢ Data visualisations galore inc experimental
➢ Dynamic area profiles
➢ Very active community engagement inc open data surgeries
➢ Sharing project board openly
➢ Open Data Manchester opendatamanchester.org.uk/
➢ Data GM http://www.datagm.org.uk/
➢ Trafford Innovation Lab datagm.org.uk/
➢ Project board (Trello)
Trafford assets vs leisure facilities
Public Project Trello Board
Some international examples
Stories from across the World
The Wind Map, by Cameron Beccario
http://earth.nullschool.net/
‘A visualisation of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers, updated every three hours’.
How will we fill 9 billion bowls by 2050?
● global initiative ● open data at its core ● precision agriculture ● climate adaptive ● exploiting latest
technologies ● >200 partners ● Planning a summit
for Sept 2016
http://www.godan.info/
“...in 2014, Chicago’s Department of Innovation and Technology started sifting through publicly available city data and built an algorithm to predict which restaurants were most likely to be in violation of health codes, based on the characteristics of previously recorded violations.”
Article by Julian Spector on Citylab: Chicago Is Predicting Food Safety Violations. Why Aren't Other Cities?
“Waves of digitally astute cities are setting the pace, including
Singapore, Panama, Seoul and Tallinn.
They’ve all created spaces for digital disruption, opening data sets
and convening citizens to challenge the digital architecture of the
city and engage in direct democratic dialogue with officials.” (Quote from ‘Cities as Platforms’ by Gerard Grech in Tech Crunch)
Open Data Camp
● Lots of people ● Shared interest in open data ● Many sectors inc:
○ local gov ○ health ○ voluntary / charities ○ local communities ○ geeks ○ non-geeks
http://www.odcamp.org.uk Bristol 14/15 May 2016
Individual and collective energies
James Cattell in Winchester
Jamie Whyte in Manchester
Folk commonly followed by #ODCamp hashtag users
Enthusiasm spans many different sectors
Pauline Roche at Open Data Camp in Winchester
Common traits? ➢ ‘People power’ ➢ Some form of (local) data store ➢ Local data + national data ➢ Mixture of skills ➢ Local ‘champion(s)’ ➢ Access to funding ➢ Support from local council(s) ➢ Communicating in lots of different
ways (multiple channels) ➢ Willingness to take risks & try
some new stuff ➢ Stories!!!
● Open Data ● Energy ● Imagination
➢ “Transformation” (won’t
succeed without well organised, well described, data)
➢ Sharing services (and therefore data)
➢ Internet of Things (IoT)...sensors etc
➢ UAVs (Drones) ➢ Satellites ➢ Crowdsourcing ➢ Superfast everywhere
➢ New stuff we haven’t imagined yet
Looking ahead (already happening)
Thank You! Feel free to contact me if you have questions or would like to discuss open data opportunities.
Contact details --->
Mark Braggins [email protected] ‘Phone 07743 817215 Twitter @markbraggins LinkedIn markbraggins Open Data Aha! opendata-aha.net AHA Digital Ltd aha-digital.com
Credits Screenshots from local data store examples screenshots from the Open Data Institute Trafford Defibrillator: ‘Stayin Alive’ – Gordon Hutchinson, courtesy of Trafford Leisure: http://www.traffordleisure.co.uk/news/stayin-alive-gordon-trusts-his-life-with-trafford-leisure/ Vintage postcard Kim Deslandes https://www.flickr.com/photos/kdeslandes/5998152390 James Cattell leaping - photo by Giuseppe Sollazzo https://flic.kr/p/rfBQ6G Jamie Whyte speaking - photo by Giuseppe Sollazzo https://flic.kr/p/zD9Tdm Artwork for Open Data Aha! by Matthew Buck of Drawnalism