Getting Down to Brass Tacks: Practical Data Sharing and Problem Solving in London December 21st, 2016 by Alan Lewis The latest in our series of London Borough Data Partnership meetings was held last week at the London Fire Brigade HQ. The Partnership aims to bring together London’s Government to share, discuss and create data projects to solve some of our public service challenges. An interesting set of speakers, along with the promise of festive…
A barometer of London Government’s digital and data capacity? May 17th, 2016 by Alan Lewis [bs_row class=”row”][bs_col class=”col-xs-8″]Response to our recent call for London Boroughs to get involved in a London Office of Data Analytics (LODA) pilot have been very positive, with over half of the 33 Boroughs expressing an interest. This in itself demonstrates a real willingness and appetite to try and do things differently. Next step will be a…
Small steps towards a London Office of Data Analytics? April 21st, 2016 by Alan Lewis The message was clear and a show of hands required: 5 boroughs willing to take part in a pilot project with ourselves and Nesta to demonstrate the benefits of a London Office of Data Analytics (LODA). This was the ask of Andrew Collinge (AD of the GLA’s Intelligence Unit) and Eddie Copeland (Director of Nesta’s…
From Waste comes Value: Transferring New York’s expertise on waste-related Analytics October 13th, 2015 by Alan Lewis We haven’t checked but it’s a fair bet that the words big, data, smart, and analytics would appear in the top 10 most frequently used words in our Datastore blog posts. With this in mind we’d like to share an example of a project from across the pond that certainly ticks all these boxes, whilst proving the value these things bring…
Thanks for sharing! A report on the third Borough Data Partnership Meeting May 22nd, 2015 by Alan Lewis This morning saw 30+ colleagues from across London local government squeeze into a City Hall Committee room to hear the latest news on City data projects and think about what London-wide datasets we should and could publish. The session was structured around the complementary themes of collaboration (Andrew Collinge gave some examples of how the…
London Borough Data Partnership May 14th, 2015 by Alan Lewis Next Friday (22/5) sees us host the third in our series of London Borough Data Partnership meetings. The Data Partnership was founded to help us collaborate more and share/organise/structure our data better. With this is mind we have an exciting line-up of speakers from the national data portal (www.data.gov.uk) – on the latest plans for…
