The Declaration for Responsible and Intelligent Data Practice asks Organisations to Pledge to ‘Do Data Better’ for Local People by 2025 Local government and business leaders have come together today behind the idea that we can and must do data better – by pledging their support for the Declaration for Responsible and Intelligent Data Practice.
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Tuesday 27th October 2020, 18.30-20.30 GMT, online via Zoom. It’s that time of the year again, so we’ve teamed up with PyData Mcr and HER+Data MCR to bring you another night of DATA HORROR STORIES!! Do you have a tale of bad stats, strange correlations, malicious intent or plain stupidity? Toy Story 2’s production famously
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Pick N Mix is our series of free, weekly online workshops run by the ODM community. If you missed the first season, you can find out what topics we covered here or catch up on past sessions over on our Vimeo page. Pick N Mix started during the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK – we
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Open Data Manchester has teamed up with a group of Chorlton residents to support their successful bid for just over £200,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund’s brand-new Climate Action Fund to help get their local area ‘back on its feet’ after COVID-19. The Chorlton Climate Action Partnership, led by WalkRideGM in partnership with local
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Open Data Manchester is working with two local environmental organisations on open data research and development (R&D) projects after a boost from the Open Data Institute (ODI) Stimulus Fund. With Manchester’s Carbon Co-op, a cooperative that works on projects to help people radically reduce their carbon emissions, ODM will develop a new model for sharing
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Do you wish you had more confidence with data? Do you want to use data to better inform what you do? Whatever your data skills, wherever you are, you’re invited to join a Virtual Data Expedition being led online for the first time by Open Data Manchester, with the support of charity data experts 360Giving.
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Open Data Manchester’s Pick N Mix programme is a series of free, weekly online workshops run by the ODM community.
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March 2020 marked the 10th Open Data Day, an annual celebration of open data, where groups from all over the globe run events to show the benefits of open data. This year over 300 events were organised, exploring climate data, tracking public money flows, open mapping and data for equal development. With many councils across
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2019 was a year which has seen Open Data Manchester develop and establish itself with new programmes and partners. The continuation funding from Luminate and the ongoing sponsorship by the Co-op Foundation has enabled us to lay the foundations that will make us operationally and financially more stable. As a not-for-profit Community Interest Company(CIC) our
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On 8th October, Open Data Manchester held an event at Federation House designed to give people the opportunity to explore the Indices of Deprivation, updated for 2019. The Indices of Deprivation is a tremendously important collection of datasets, used to support all sorts of decisions made across central and local government, voluntary sector, and businesses.