(Or your area of choice, because, y’know, I’ve done it for Greater Manchester) This post was written by Jamie Whyte and appears on his Medium channel with other data stories here. Choropleth (not chloropleth, as I called them for months) maps are maps that colour different areas according to some data, using different strategies for
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By Robin Gower. GrantNav brings together information about grants awarded by a variety of funders in the UK. Because the data is published with a common standard, it’s easy to create analyses and visualisations that a) work for any of the funders’ data and b) can compare grant portfolios across funders. You can download the
Last year Open Data Manchester held two workshops one in Berlin and the other in Manchester to explore whether cooperative structures could enable the creation of open data and personal data stores for mutual benefit. The idea of the mutual came out of an ongoing conversation between people within the cooperative movement and the open
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It was appropriate that March’s Open Data Manchester meeting should focus on projects related to the forthcoming elections. Not only because the country goes to the polls next month but also that election data was the first area of interest when Open Data Manchester started five years ago. The release of election data by Trafford
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**The following guest post is by Farida Vis from the Everyday Growing Cultures research project. The project looks at the potentially transformative effect of bringing together the food growing and open data communities.** This post also originally appeared on the OKFN Blog http://blog.okfn.org/2013/07/18/the-transformative-potential-of-gardening-with-data/ Those supporting the government’s open data agenda highlight the business case for
Earlier in July at SMC_MCR, a monthly digital and social technology meet up in Manchester UK, BBC R&D demonstrated a new approach to personalised entertainment called Perceptive Media. It is something that BBC producer Ian Forrester had been talking about for some time, being revealed at SMC_MCR in February. At that point it was hard
This blog post was originally written for the Open Knowledge Foundation blog. Open Data Cities was initiated in May 2009, premised on the simple question of how cities would evolve if all data were made open. Would the same inequalities and asymmetries persist for example? Moreover, what would need to happen within the city to
This blog post originally was originally written for FutureEverything as part of their Open Data Cities programme. I’m no expert but I really need to be — Licensing Licensing is a subject that comes up a lot with Open Data. The licence is a key component of the dataset. It defines the use and liability and it
Back in May 2009 after the final presentations at Futuresonic 09, I sat down with Adam Greenfield and we talked about how cities evolved and grew, and how they developed inequalities through those that have access to information and those who don’t. This coupled with an individual’s ability to act on that information in a meaningful