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Open Data Institute Podcasts

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Listen to podcasts from the Open Data Institute – discussing the impacts of data across areas including health, cities, the built environment, government and finance. Speakers also delve into issues around data ethics, trust, art, culture, corruption and accountability.
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Standards - Community Voices - Juan Pane

We interview Juan Pane, Technical Co-ordinator at the Latin America Open Data Initiative about his experience of working with open standards for data.

Mar 27, 2018•16 min

Friday lunchtime lecture: Where the suits meet the sneakers

You can find Roland's slides here https://www.slideshare.net/rolandharwood/mind-the-gap-where-the-suits-meet-the-sneakers-90083493 In this interactive lunchtime talk, Roland Harwood will describe the challenges and opportunities of corporate and start-up collaboration. By providing a range of practical case studies from the likes of LEGO, UBS, and Ford, he will share lessons learned and practical tools for combining and aligning cultures, data and processes to create valuable new partnerships an...

Mar 09, 2018•51 min

Friday lunchtime lecture: Securing data flows post-Brexit

With the UK leaving the EU one of the key issues facing the tech sector is how to ensure data can continue to flow between the UK and EU post-Brexit. The free flow of data is crucial to the tech sector, and many other industries. There are a number of options available but only one that represents a suitable solution for the entire economy. The UK and EU must seek mutual adequacy decisions, and during the talk Jeremy Lilley, techUK’s Policy Manager, will explain why, what that is and how to go a...

Mar 02, 2018•27 min

Friday lunchtime lecture: Capitalising on open banking

Open Banking will introduce a new level of competition, one for the attention of banking customers. In a world where customers can get their banking data analysed anywhere, why would they choose their bank? Jamie from Bud will share insights and practical product information on how to deliver more value to customers and compete in this new world. This talk is useful for anyone responsibly for open banking strategies, innovation departments and banks, or anyone looking to take advantage of new da...

Feb 23, 2018•43 min

Friday lunchtime lecture: how open data revolutionised London transport

Research released by Deloitte in October this year showed that the release of open data by Transport for London (TfL) is generating annual economic benefits and savings of up to £130m a year For almost ten years, TfL has been releasing a significant amount of open data, from air quality information to wifi access points, allowing developers and partners to bring new products and services to market more quickly. TfL has worked with a wide range of professional and amateur developers, ranging from...

Feb 09, 2018•45 min

Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Data as creative material

Using data as the seed in their creative process, Kultur Design produce art, design and visualisation that has the uniqueness and serendipity of the data embedded within it. In this talk, Mike Brondbjerg from Kultur Design will look at how data, in one form or another, connects many of Kultur Design’s projects, and how they've visualised data in very different, creative ways. This talk might interest data viz developers looking for some inspiration, or motion / graphic designers wanting to learn...

Feb 02, 2018•44 min

ODI Podcast: The African Open Data Leaders Network

The Open Data Leaders Network connects and supports a peer network of data pioneers in governments from all around the world. In this podcast, we look at the African Open Data Leaders Network, a regional variation of the programme that took place this year in Accra, Ghana. We hear from Fiona Smith about the methodology behind the programme, and from various open data leaders on the continent about their experience, and the main obstacles they face in advocating for open data in the region.

Jan 31, 2018•17 min

Friday lunchtime lecture: Hidden in plain sight (by the ODI artist in residence)

This talk will outline the recent work of BAFTA-winning artist Dan Hett around encryption issues and technologies, including a detailed examination of his recent ODI commission: two large, vibrant paintings that each contain a securely encrypted (but boldly painted) transmission, created for the ODI's upcoming LMAO exhibition and marking the beginning of a new arc of work. The key to unlocking the encrypted messages is stored on an RFID chip, which was implanted directly into the artist's hand e...

Jan 26, 2018•38 min

Friday lunchtime lecture: The local authority that went 'guerrilla'

Most UK local authorities have embraced the concept of open data, slowly but surely opening up new data sets. Andy Radford, Transport Planner at Birmingham City Council, had a very different experience. Let him take you back to 2014... "My colleague had masterminded a successful bid for a European Project, Opticities, and then abruptly left the organisation. My task was to open up real-time transport datasets in a matter of months, with very little budget and no background in open data. "What fo...

Jan 19, 2018•41 min

Friday lunchtime lecture: Switching on Christmas lights in an automated home

Over the past two years we have seen swaths of manufacture attempt to bribe us with technology to “make our lives better”. As a result we now have big technology manufacturers competing to be our virtual assistants with smart speakers. In this lecture lecture ODI Data Scientist David Tarrant looks at how these platforms are competing and producing a confusing set of services and why simple to use open standards are going to be the key to winning in the home automation market. “OK Google, tell Al...

Dec 15, 2017•49 min

Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Can't find the right code? Explain yourself!

Data standards almost always have two fundamental components: syntax and semantics. The syntax is established by a schema, which specifies how the data should be structured. Should it be saved as XML, JSON, CSV? Should dates be written YYYY-MM-DD? What order should the columns be in? These types of questions are essential and catered for in most well-established data standards. Semantics are more abstract. Questions arise, like: what does this data tell me about the world? What does this number ...

Dec 01, 2017•57 min

Friday lunchtime lecture: Empty homes and house prices: is there a relationship?

House prices are a popular topic of conversation in the UK. Less popular is the rate the prices are increasing. The UK average house price has increased 30% since the 2008 crash, and London house prices have gone up 75%, according to the Land Registry House price index from September 2008 to September 2017. In London, price increases are often blamed on empty homes bought as investments by rich foreigners. Areas such as Cornwall and the Lake District blame price increases on holiday homes bought...

Nov 24, 2017•45 min

Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Where is Open Banking now

A study by the Consumer Market Authority showed that older and larger banks do not have to compete hard enough for customers’ business, and smaller and newer banks find it difficult to grow. This means that many people are paying more than they should for their banking activities and are not benefiting from new services. As a result, Open Banking was set up in September 2016 to enable personal customers and small businesses to share their data securely with other banks and with third parties, al...

Nov 17, 2017•45 min

Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Leveraging data insights through storytelling

Corporations are often overwhelmed with the amount of information they create. IBM estimates that around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. The rise of big and open data has exposed the struggle to communicate insights to an untrained audience. With the growth of open data, the challenge has grown from being able to analyse data to being able to share it in engaging ways. Applying practical steps can help you to use data in storytelling while creating a clear and convincing arg...

Nov 10, 2017•44 min

Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Sir Nigel Shadbolt - What's the future of open data?

AI Expert Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt will be asking whether the open data movement has succeeded and what the next steps should be to secure its foundation for our economies and societies We have seen many achievements in open data, by governments and NGOs, large corporates and startups, collectives and individuals. This talk will reflect on and review some of these achievements and look to the future, asking questions like ‘How does open data relate to data that is closed or shared?’ and ‘Doe...

Nov 03, 2017•55 min

Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Data protection in developing countries

With technology becoming ever more widely used in our daily activities, our digital footprints are getting bigger. Our online activities are being captured – from shopping to socialising – and creating an unprecedented number of data points. More and more companies are creating and selling their products with customer demographics in mind. Central to this issue the control and use of personal data - and how people's privacy and personal data are being protected. Yet legislative protections and p...

Oct 13, 2017•52 min

Friday lunchtime lecture: How we made 2.1 million homes appear

Leasehold Knowledge Partnership's (LKP) data journey began in 2014 when they discovered that the government estimate of about 2 million leasehold homes in England and Wales was totally wrong. In the first half of 2014 they worked with the government to allow them to agree a new "official" estimate of 4.1 million privately owned leasehold homes in England as at 2012/13. The data in this sector has been so poor in the past that fundamental misconceptions have been allowed to develop. The governmen...

Sep 15, 2017•48 min

Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Is open data and journalism a match doomed to fail?

Journalists have been slow to approach open data as a source of information, often relying on traditional approaches such as Freedom of Information requests. In 2015, Jonathan Stoneman wrote a working paper “Does Open Data Need Journalism?” to show how things were slowly changing. With projects such as OpenCorporates and OpenPrescribing, access to data for journalists was becoming easier than ever. But is it enough? And have there been too many missed opportunities for open data and journalism t...

Sep 08, 2017•52 min

Brexit and open government in the UK: 11 months of May

How has Brexit influenced the UK’s transparency regime and how, in turn, will openness will shape Brexit? There are three ways of looking at Brexit and open government: 1) possible changes to old policies and new ones being pushed, 2) the new Prime Minister either championing transparency or supporting secrecy, and 3) the openness of the Brexit process itself, which has so far struggled between the executive’s secretive prerogative powers and the legislature’s rights to know. May’s government wi...

Jul 14, 2017•51 min

Friday lunchtime lecture: Making governments work better with open data

From real estate in Estonia to search and rescue in Ireland, find out how the OpenGovIntelligence project aims to use open data to improve the way government works. The OpenGovIntelligence project is a three year EU funded research project involving twelve partners from seven countries. It aims to demonstrate how better use of data and ‘co-creation’ of public services leads to benefits for citizens and businesses. The project involves 6 pilots, each with two partners: a technical partner tasked ...

Jul 10, 2017•45 min

Friday lunchtime lecture: Measuring the entire charity sector

Until now some people have been looking at and analysing certain pockets of that data, but nobody has taken impact data for the whole sector and put it in one structured place. In this talk, CEO and Co-founder of SoGive, Sanjay Joshi, will talk about the challenges of creating a suitable data structure for something that is intrinsically hard to quantify, how to create a social enterprise and a business from a dataset, and how this data could help individual charity donors make more of an impact...

Jul 01, 2017•45 min
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