Poverty in London 2020/21 April 7th, 2022 by Rachel Leeser Key Points Overall poverty levels fell in the UK during the first year of the pandemic as median income decreased slightly and the £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit increased income for some people towards the bottom of the income distribution. Due to difficulties during the pandemic with the underlying…
Graduate outcomes in London March 18th, 2021 by Barry Fong At the end of 2019 the Greater London Authority (GLA) commissioned the Social Market Foundation (SMF) to conduct research focusing on how the outcomes of graduates who have studied in London and those from London vary, by a range of different characteristics. The report ‘Graduate outcomes in London’ was published on the London Datastore in…
Using digital ‘exhaust’ to inform our Social Evidence Base April 2nd, 2019 by Vivienne Avery The City Intelligence Unit has published findings from research investigating the potential of new digital data sources to inform social policy analysis at City Hall. We are undertaking a programme of work known as the Social Evidence Base to inform policy on issues such as social integration, economic fairness and social mobility – areas which…
Poverty in London 2017/18 March 29th, 2019 by Rachel Leeser The total number of Londoners living in poverty has continued to rise over the last few years with the growing population and now stands at around 2.4 million people, according to official government figures. This means 28 per cent of everyone living in the region are in poverty, averaged over three years 2015/16-2017/18. The main…
Measuring food security in London October 19th, 2018 by Barry Fong In the Mayor of London’s draft Food Strategy he commits to ensuring to do all he can so that all Londoners can eat well and that they are able to enjoy food security for themselves and their family. Many Londoners are not able to eat well at home, in part because of issues relating to…
Podcast: Putting data science to work saving lives September 27th, 2018 by Andrew Mobbs Not many people can see a link between fighting fires, banking and tailor-made dog food, but not everyone sees the world the same way as Apollo Gerolymbos. In an hour long podcast, Apollo – London Fire Brigades Head of Data Analytics – talks about all things data. He discusses how and why he became the…
Take part in our sports data expedition September 24th, 2018 by Hannah Goulding We are hosting a whole day Sports Data Expedition on the 31st of October at City Hall and are looking for volunteers to take part. What is a data expedition? A data expedition is an event that brings together those that might hold data, policy makers and data scientists to gain insight on a chosen…
Housing in London 2018 report August 8th, 2018 by Marcus McPhillips At the end of July 2018, the Greater London Authority released the 2018 edition of its annual Housing in London report. This report is the most extensive source of data on housing in the capital, serving as the evidence base for the Mayor’s London Housing Strategy. It is a resource for policymakers, practitioners and academics…
Tracking social integration in London March 22nd, 2018 by Barry Fong Over the past year the GLA Intelligence Unit has been assisting in the development of the Mayor’s strategy to improve social integration in London. One of the main parts of this strategy is to improve London’s evidence base to measure, evaluate and share findings on the state of social integration. We have published a set…
A ‘New Deal’ for City Data? January 25th, 2018 by Andrew Collinge, Assistant Director, Intelligence and Analysis, Greater London Authority Yesterday saw City Hall host an ‘Urban Data Markets’ conference. The event — bringing together some of the best data and smart city brains from London, Berlin and beyond — was opened by London’s CDO, Theo Blackwell. Having launched the listening exercise for the Mayor’s forthcoming Smart London Plan this week, Theo emphasised the vital role data has to play across public services,…
City DataStore: Data Sharing for Impact from London’s Data Ecosystem November 22nd, 2017 by Andrew Collinge and Paul Hodgson London has taken another step towards creating a more frictionless data sharing and governance environment this week with the launch of the City DataStore. The simplest way to describe this is as “a private twin” to the London DataStore – an environment in which new forms of data from a wider variety of sources, can…
Big data to plan for council tax reform September 26th, 2017 by Mark Wingham In early September, the third annual Data for Policy international conference took place here in London. The objective of these conferences is simple: to share learning and knowledge about using data in the public sector. I went along as the representative for the Intelligence Unit at the Greater London Authority (GLA). I presented a paper…
Getting the Show on the Road: Report from the first London Office of Technology and Innovation Stand Up July 25th, 2017 by Andrew Collinge A few weeks back now, we announced a scoping exercise for a London Office of Technology and Innovation (LOTI). We’re committed to being open about what we are doing and this blogpost is the first step in that direction. The idea behind the scoping study is to turn the talk about the transformative effect of…
Safeguards and Sharing in ‘DataSmart’ Cities July 19th, 2017 by Matt Clifton: Programme Partnership Manager for Sharing Cities The Digital Economy Challenge The exchange and protection of personal and non-personal data is a critical challenge facing all cities across Europe. In London, Lisbon and Milan, the Sharing Cities programme[1] is working to develop robust approaches to data security in the design and implementation of smart services. Our work aims to meet the requirements…
Delivering Data Value and sharing the GDPR Load: a Data Sharing Alliance for London June 27th, 2017 by Andrew Mobbs, London Fire Brigade Do you ever feel that some mountains are just too difficult to climb? In these cases I’m often reminded of a scene from Mission Impossible: Mission Commander: Good morning, Mr. Hunt. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves getting all of the London Boroughs, health trusts, emergency services, voluntary organisations and all of…
From Smart Cities 1.0 to 2.0: it’s not (only) about the tech April 4th, 2017 by The Conversation This blog was taken from The Conversation. Read the original article here. The blog authors are: Sarah Barns, Western Sydney University Donald McNeill, Western Sydney University Ellie Cosgrave, UCL Michele Acuto, UCL This is the second article in The Conversation’s series Making Cities Work. It considers the problems of providing critical infrastructure and how we might produce the…
Digital Transformation: Bringing the Census into the 21st Century March 8th, 2017 by Erica Chin The census is the largest collection of socio-demographic statistics on the nation’s population. It occurs every ten year and provides not only a population count of England and Wales, but also detailed characteristics and attributes at small geography levels that government and non-government organisations utilise to underpin their decision making process. In a move to…
Using household-level data to understand the drivers of poverty in the capital February 9th, 2017 by Giovanni Tonutti Policy in Practice are embarking on an ambitious project to track over half a million low-income households in London to understand how they are impacted by welfare reforms and other government policies over the course of almost two years. Using councils’ anonymised household level data, the project ‘Low-income Londoners and Welfare Reform’ will track the…
Introducing the new online job postings data for London: FAQ January 25th, 2017 by Nye Cominetti The London Datastore is piloting a new job postings dataset. This blog introduces the dataset and answers potential questions relating to its source, scope and quality. The data provides detailed information on the skills employers are looking for, the roles they’re seeking to fill, and the employment package they have on offer. We hope it…
