Open Data Showcase September 25th, 2023 by Simon Greaves Leeds Digital Festival 2023 Our friends at Open Innovations will be 10 years old in November. To kick off their celebrations they are hosting a Showcase during Leeds Digital Festival on September 28th. This will take place in person at their innovation space in Munro House and will include talks, presentations and demos by some…
Wuthering Bytes 2023 August 15th, 2023 by Simon Greaves Following a three year absence the festival of interesting and inspiring technology in the small market town of Hebden Bridge will return in August 2023, which will also mark the 10 year anniversary of the first ever Wuthering Bytes. The festival will take place on Friday 25th August to Sunday 27th August at Hebden Bridge Town…
Footfall Data August 8th, 2023 by Simon Greaves We’ve recently published footfall reports showing data from Halifax BID (Business Improvement District) based on footfall recorded in Commercial Street and Corn Market in Halifax town centre. Data is shown by hour, day, week and rolling 12-months along with a comparison to previous years and is provided by Springboard. We hope to publish more footfall…
Annual Performance Report July 14th, 2023 by Simon Greaves Our 2022/23 Corporate Performance Report has the following main areas of focus: • Children subject to a Child protection plan and Children looked after• Percentage of safeguarding referrals where the investigation is completed within 12 weeks of the alert being made• Children looked after with an up to date Strengths and Difficulties questionnaire• Percentage of streets with…
Poverty and Data June 12th, 2023 by Simon Greaves Our Anti-Poverty dashboard shows a collection of selected statistics on poverty in Calderdale which has been developed alongside the Calderdale Anti-Poverty action plan. You can find more detail about this dashboard below. You can also find out more about poverty in the region and get involved with our friends at Open Innovations who are working…
Calderdale Perception Survey May 19th, 2023 by Simon Greaves The results from Calderdale Council’s annual residents survey are in, with 70% of people responding to the survey agreeing that Calderdale is a great place to live. Each year, the Council invites residents to take the Vision 2024 perception survey which helps measure progress towards achieving the Vision for the borough for the year 2024.…
Half Year Performance and Corporate Plan January 30th, 2023 by Simon Greaves Our 2022/23 Half Year (Q2) Performance Report has three main areas of focus: • Permanent care home admissions• Reablement/rehabilitation services at 91 days• Primary educational attainment Our half year performance report also shows how the Council is performing against our key performance indicators and when compared to other councils. We treat a selection of these as super…
Warm Spaces January 13th, 2023 by Simon Greaves We’ve published a new dataset showing Warm and Welcoming Spaces in and around Calderdale along with links to regional and national directories of Warm Spaces provided by Open Innovations and Warm Welcome UK. The Open Innovations Warm Spaces Finder pulls together a number of directories from different groups and organisations. It also allows you to…
Census 2021 – Latest Updates November 14th, 2022 by Simon Greaves The Office for National Statistics has started to publish more detailed information about Census 2021, including a topic summary called Demography and migration: Census 2021 in England and Wales and a new Census Maps visualisation tool published on 2 November 2022. You can find links to these and other published Census data on the Calderdale…
Defibrillator for Crow Wood Park October 6th, 2022 by Simon Greaves The Performance and Business Intelligence Team at Calderdale Council have raised £1000 to fund a Community Public Access Defibrillator (CPAD) at Crow Wood Park as part of the Yorkshire Ambulance Charity 999 scheme. The money was handed over to the Friends of Crow Wood Park at their monthly coffee morning in September. The defibrillator has…
Performance Report and Dashboard July 19th, 2022 by Simon Greaves Our 2021/22 Corporate Performance Report has four main areas of focus: • Secondary School Attendance• Placement Stability and Wellbeing of Children Looked After• Safeguarding Referrals• Smoking at Delivery Our annual performance report also shows how the Council is performing against our 100 key performance indicators and when compared to other councils. We treat a selection…
Open Data in Calderdale: Interview with Open Innovations April 29th, 2022 by Simon Greaves Interview with Simon Greaves, Lead Business Intelligence Officer at Calderdale Council and Paul Connell, Founder of Open Innovations and Grace Durkan, Events and Communications Co-ordinator at Open Innovations. Calderdale is one of Open Innovations founding sponsors and this interview talks about the benefits of this collaboration and showcases our innovative approach to Open Data. Paul: Why…
Diversity Dashboard February 4th, 2022 by Simon Greaves We have developed our published Workforce Profile data for Calderdale so this feeds the Diversity Dashboard developed by Open Innovations and which is supported by our ongoing work with them and sponsors through the Open Data Collaboration Group. Over the past year or so they’ve been working with Yorkshire Water to create a Diversity Dashboard for…
Half-Year (Q2) Performance January 18th, 2022 by Simon Greaves Our Half-Year (Q2) 2020/21 Performance Report includes exception reports on the following: employment and skills percentage of children looked after for two more years in stable placements permanent care home admissions (ages 18-64/65 and over) The report also has updates on the latest data releases for other key performance indicators and details of how Calderdale is performing…
Levelling Up With Open Data November 30th, 2021 by Simon Greaves A project to explore ‘levelling up’ from a Northern perspective, by working in the open, inviting discussion and suggestions, and developing a prototype visualisation with open data at its foundation. With no solid definition, ‘levelling up’ could mean something different to everyone, and with no official ‘levelling up’ dataset to work from, there isn’t a…
Libraries Dashboard November 12th, 2021 by Simon Greaves Our latest Dashboard is a visual representation of the libraries data published on Calderdale Dataworks for the last three financial years prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. The dashboard includes various visualisations and a map to show the locations of the libraries and the numbers of visitors. Visualisations include: total visits by library, visits by adults…
#PlanetData4 October 11th, 2021 by Simon Greaves The next #PlanetData event from ODI Leeds takes place on 21 October. The whole day is dedicated to taking Climate Action and advocating for open data. The first #PlanetData event was launched in 2019 as a response to the Climate Emergency. It was an open, collaborative, and energetic event, where people could share work/data in…
Powered Up – local authorities and net zero August 18th, 2021 by Simon Greaves How can the broader energy sector – from communities, local authorities, and transport providers through to energy suppliers and producers – make better use of open data to help reduce carbon emissions and support a shift towards net-zero? That is the question at the heart of ODI Leeds #PoweredUp event series. Emerging from conversations with clients…
2020/21 Performance July 14th, 2021 by Simon Greaves Our 2020/21 Corporate Performance Report has four main areas of focus: Healthy life expectancy Children’s social care activity Visitor economy Vision 2024 resident perception indices Our annual performance report also shows how the Council is performing against our 90 key performance indicators and when compared to other councils. We treat a selection of these as…
Northernlands 3 and #OpenDataSavesLives February 26th, 2021 by Simon Greaves The Northernlands event returns for its third year at ODI Leeds, partnering again with the Embassy for The Netherlands and welcoming West Yorkshire Combined Authority as a new partner for this year, helping to highlight and support the innovation that happens in the region and beyond. Like last year, you can look forward to two days…
Vision 2024 Survey January 15th, 2021 by Simon Greaves As we look ahead with hope in 2021, residents are invited to share their views of the borough in a short survey, to help shape how we work together towards the Vision2024 for Calderdale. Amidst the challenges of COVID-19, we remain committed to the Vision of Calderdale being a place where you can realise your…
Partnership projects with the University of Huddersfield December 6th, 2019 by Simon Greaves Calderdale Council and the University of Huddersfield have completed a successful second year of innovative data projects. The collaboration involved MBA and MSc students taking on a range of research projects using open data on Calderdale Dataworks, data from the Council’s Performance and Business Intelligence team, as well as new data generated by the students, allowing…
#OpenGovTech Launch at Wuthering Bytes August 13th, 2019 by Simon Greaves Location: Birchcliffe Centre, Chapel Avenue, Hebden Bridge, HX7 8DG Date: Wednesday 4th September 2019 1:00PM – 4:30PM Whatever your experience or understanding of ‘GovTech,’ there is no denying that it can have profound effects on the lives of citizens. From small changes to the way that teams are managed to the deployment of digital services, GovTech is increasingly a…
Performance Dashboard and Vision 2024 June 26th, 2019 by Simon Greaves Calderdale Council continues to make good progress towards being the ‘best borough in the North’ and achieving the aspirations of the Vision2024 for Calderdale. During the last 12 months, the Council has been measuring its progress in a number of priority areas, with an aspiration to be the ‘best borough in the North’. Progress is…
#Clean Air Day – Air Quality Dashboard June 18th, 2019 by Simon Greaves Ahead of Clear Air Day on 20 June, we’ve published our new interactive dashboard using live data from the three air quality monitoring stations around Calderdale: Air Quality Dashboard Air Quality Monitoring Station 2 Data – Salterhebble, Halifax Air Quality Monitoring Station 3 Data – Market Street, Hebden Bridge Air Quality Monitoring Station 4 Data…
Northernlands Data Summit and Diversity and Equality Data Workshop May 20th, 2019 by Simon Greaves Northernlands Data Summit A 1-day summit at ODI Leeds held during Leeds Digital Festival in May 2019. It brought together the people who are creating the data economy to explore the diversity, untapped value, and potential for innovation. Artists, activists, organisations, businesses, data scientists, strategists, citizens – we all have something to gain from innovation…
Open Data Day March 1st, 2019 by Simon Greaves Saturday 2nd March is Open Data Day This is an annual celebration of open data all over the world and a great opportunity to raise awareness and show the benefits of open data (efficiency, transparency, innovation and economic growth). Here in Calderdale we have proactively and enthusiastically embraced Open Data, putting it at the heart of our Digital…
Tell us how you’re using our Open Data November 28th, 2018 by Simon Greaves If you can spare a few minutes, please let us have feedback on how you’ve used the site today, what you were looking for, preferred formats and how you’re using our open data. We work closely with Data Mill North and Northern Data Hub on all things open data so we’ll be looking at the…
IoT Showcase and IoTUK Challenger September 19th, 2018 by Simon Greaves The Internet of Things is a rapidly growing area of tech, encompassing creative projects alongside real-world applications across health, transport, environment, and more. To explore the potential of IoT, ODI Leeds are collaborating with IoTUK and Digital Catapult to bring you IoTUK Challenger North. Taking place in Leeds on Thursday 20 & Friday 21 September, it is an opportunity for SMEs to work with…
#TravelHack2 – Fare Enough September 18th, 2017 by Simon Greaves #TravelHack was an incredible success, where more than 80 people helped write Transport for the North’s data strategy. #TravelHack2 – Fare Enough held in October, focused on the presentation of fare information to customers, expanding on the ideas and explorations from #TravelHack. Bus fares have been a thorny issue for some time, with competing operators having vastly…
ODI Leeds and Friends Showcase 2017 April 21st, 2017 by Simon Greaves As part of Leeds Digital Festival 2017, ODI Leeds hosted a showcase of talks by digital leaders, innovators and partners on Monday 24 April. The day was a celebration of open data and tech projects in the region. The day was open to everyone to find out more about their work and current projects, and to learn…
IBM helps Calderdale get moving! October 7th, 2015 by Simon Greaves Global technology giant IBM and Calderdale Council are joining forces on a project which will use data to encourage more active, healthy and longer lives in the borough. IBM invited Calderdale Council to take part in a unique three week pilot research programme which will combine data from the Council; the NHS; Public Health England;…
Calderdale open for business June 11th, 2015 by Simon Greaves Calderdale Council has launched a new web page giving residents and businesses access to local information that could make a difference to their lives and help create exciting new products and services. The web page provides ‘open data’ – free information published in an accessible format with a licence that allows anyone to access, use…
Calderdale joins Leeds ODI January 20th, 2015 by Simon Greaves We are a founding member of the Leeds Open Data institute (ODI) and are working closely with them and other partners on a range of Open Data projects. See – Calderdale joins Leeds ODI
