Data Mapper is an interactive map, focusing on West Yorkshire and using Open Street Map, which has been created by one of our colleagues at ODI Leeds: Data Mapper. The Data Mapper harvests GeoJSON files from Calderdale DataWorks. The ‘drop down’ selection in the top left corner provides the option to add one or more of the datasets to the map....
We now have over 200 datasets of local information freely available for you to use on DataWorks – data that could help make a difference to residents lives and support business opportunities. All the data is ‘open data’ – free information published in an accessible format with a licence that allows anyone to access, use and share it. Cllr Jane Scullion, Calderdale...
In the lead up to the local elections on 3 May 2018, ODI Leeds have created a hex map using data from the Democracy club. The Democracy club uses crowd sourced data from thousands of volunteers and covers such details as candidates, polling locations, and when elections are held. Using data from the Democracy club allows the hex map to...
The State of Calderdale assembly 2018 is being held on Friday 23 March. It brings together key representatives from the public, private, and community and voluntary sector. The assembly provides the chance to discuss what priorities and key issues organisations within the different sectors believe are relevant to the borough of Calderdale, how these can be improved, and where there...
All local planning authorities are required to publish and maintain Brownfield land registers as open data (see The Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017). Land is classed as brownfield if it has been previously developed. You can see Calderdale’s Brownfield land register at DataWorks: Brownfield land register. All registers are required to follow a common csv file format,...
Ever wondered what data is available for the ward that you live and / or work in? On Calderdale DataWorks, we’ve created a series of Ward profiles that provide data on many topics, such as demographics, health and income. Since we first highlighted the profiles in September 2016, these have been developed further to include more datasets. The information available...
Graham Mozley and Andrew Ramsay from Calderdale Business Intelligence team presented to the Data and Insight Authority Forum Summit, in December 2017, about our reporting template for social care front door self assessment for Ofsted inspection and sector led improvement. Calderdale was granted one of eight successful transparency bids from the Local Government Association (LGA) to develop an Ofsted ready Children’s...
Building on the success of TravelHack and TravelHack2, ODI Leeds have announced a collaboration with the Department of Transport, giving the opportunity to discuss the open data provision in the Bus Services Act 2017. Workshops for local authorities, bus operators, transport data providers, digital developers and others, were held in London, Birmingham and Leeds in November and December 2017. The Department of...
#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 different pricing structures and...
As the number of our datasets steadily increase, we also want to give a more visual presentation of some of the data we publish. This is being done using a series of interactive dashboards. At present we have published four dashboards on the following data: Annual council budget; Council ward elections; Council performance overview; and Corporate complaints. You can see these at Council dashboards . Each dashboard...