Slides from the Renfrewshire Community Planning Partnership Open Data 'Enlightenment' event

1. Renfrewshire Open Data
Enlightenment event
Open Data Aha!
Mark Braggins
29th January 2016

2. 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
mark.braggins@aha-digital.com
‘Phone 07743 817215
Twitter @markbraggins
LinkedIn markbraggins
Open Data Aha! opendata-aha.net
AHA Digital Ltd aha-digital.com

3. Renfrewshire Community Planning
Partnership

4. “Open data is data that anyone can
access, use and share.”
Source: Open Data Institute (ODI)

5. Open Data - different things to
different people
Just a few areas open data can
help:
● Saving lives
● Making (or saving) - money
● Transparency
● Partnerships / sharing

6. “‘Unfortunately, the evidence
appears to be scarce.’”
Open Knowledge: Making Open Data Actionable and Impactful
Authors: Tyrone Grandison, Jeff Chen

7. 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 2000 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

8. A quick look at England (so far)
Open Data stories

9. 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

10. 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/

11. 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/

12. Cambridgeshire
➢ Strong mixture of:
➢ Open Data
➢ research and analytical
skills
➢ Data stories
➢ Data visualisation
➢ Active engagement with
local people, inc blogging
and social media
➢ Cambridgeshire Insight
cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk/

13. Hampshire
➢ 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
➢ Know Now’s Flood
Event Model
➢ RSAC’s Landscape Watch
➢ Minecraft Ventnor by
Christopher GutteridgeGP Pressure Map by Nquiringminds
Flood Event Model by Know Now
Minecraft Ventnor
‘Home’ of Open
Data Aha!

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. Some international examples
Stories from across the World

19. The Wind Map, by Cameron Beccario
http://earth.nullschool.net/
‘A visualisation of global weather conditions forecast
by supercomputers, updated every three hours’.

20. 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/

21. “...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?

22. “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)

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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!!!
Looking ahead (already happening)
➢ “Transformation” (won’t succeed without
well organised, well described, data)
➢ Sharing services (and therefore data)
➢ Internet of Things (IoT)
➢ UAVs (Drones)
➢ Satellites
➢ Crowdsourcing
➢ Superfast everywhere
➢ New stuff we haven’t imagined yet

26. Thank You!
Feel free to contact me
if you have questions
or would like to
discuss open data for
your organisation.
Contact details --->
Mark Braggins
mark.braggins@aha-digital.com
‘Phone 07743 817215
Twitter @markbraggins
LinkedIn markbraggins
Open Data Aha! opendata-aha.net
AHA Digital Ltd aha-digital.com

27. 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