In this talk, Dr Becky Inkster will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities when working in the field of digital mental health. Becky will highlight the importance of ethics and the need for bringing imagination, integrity and inclusivity into digital mental health solutions. Becky is a clinical neuroscientist, seeking innovative ways to improve our understanding and treatment of mental health. She’s passionate about combining sectors on topics related to artificial intelligence, psychi...
Jul 05, 2019•46 min
Colouring London is an open data platform, designed by The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in University College London, to collect, collate, visualise, and make accessible, fifty categories of statistical data, for every building in London How many buildings are there in London? What are their characteristics? Where are they located and how do they contribute to the city? How adaptable are they? How long will they last, and what are the environmental and socio-economic implications of demo...
Jun 28, 2019•30 min
London’s rapid growth is putting pressure on cultural infrastructure. London has lost 61% LGBT+ venues, 35% of grassroots music venues and it is estimated that 24%of artists’ workspace sites are at risk of closure. In this talk, hear the many challenges that are faced require a range of interventions to tackle them and how the Greater London Authority is using data to understand, protect and grow cultural infrastructure. About the speaker Rachael Roe is a Senior Policy Officer in the Culture and...
Jun 14, 2019•21 min
The State of Open Data – Histories and Horizons is a new book that provides a review of the first 10 years of open data. Join Mor Rubinstein, Tim Davies and Carla Bonina to discover insights gained and the challenges still to be overcome as open data enters its second decade The book brings together over 65 authors from around the world to examine open data from historial, sectoral, and regional perspectives, uncovering the issues that will shape the future of open data in the years to come. Abo...
Jun 07, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Statistics from the International Labour Organisation illustrate an urgent picture: Every day, 6,300 people die as a result of occupational accidents or work-related diseases: more than 2.3 million deaths per year. This talk explores if Safetytech could be the answer. Data and digital technology are transforming the way whole industries operate. However, a huge challenge persists in transferring these revolutionary technologies to improve safety and reduce risks, particularly in the critical inf...
May 24, 2019•26 min
This talk reflects on a two year collaboration between the ODI, the University of Surrey and the National Archives in creating technology to improve trust in digital archives. National archives are not immune to a climate of distrust in institutions – and yet, being trusted to preserve the history of a country without tampering with it, is their raison d’être. Increasingly shifting to the preservation of easily manipulated digital records, sometimes kept in the dark for decades before release, t...
May 17, 2019•37 min
To achieve their vision to be trusted with data by their customers, learn how the Co-op have practically applied data ethics to their planning around new products and services. Get practical guidance from the data team at the Co-op on how they’ve applied data ethics throughout the delivery life-cycle. The Co-op have used the ODI’s Data Ethis Canvas to frame the how to make sensible decisions whilst balancing value and risk appetite. This work has helped them build capabilities to meet regulatory...
May 10, 2019•46 min
Linked data is full of promises, but its benefits have mostly been reserved for experts. If more people and organisations are able to link their data, they will be more visible, discoverable and easier to combine with other data among the web – take combining weather data with transport data if the weather affects our journey time, for example. ODI Members and software company OpenDataSoft will describe why it is important that more people can link their data together, and the impact this can ha...
May 04, 2019•42 min
Companies across the world think they’re effectively anonymising data about people, but what if someone could reidentify who these people are? Discover the risks and learn about the ODI’s plans to help organisations mitigate those risks. Anonymisation is a set of tools, algorithms and best practices to remove personal information from a dataset while maintaining as much of the data’s utility as possible. In this lecture, Fionntán O’Donnell, the ODI’s Senior Data Technologist, will talk about how...
Apr 05, 2019•48 min
With the Digital, Culture Media and Sport Committee recently calling for a new independent digital regulator and the government’s Internet Safety Strategy White Paper imminent, it’s a crucial time for digital regulation in the UK. Jacob Ohrvik-Stott discusses where the digital regulation debate is heading and outlines Doteveryone’s proposals for an Office for Responsible Technology. About Jacob Ohrvik-Stott Jacob Ohrvik-Stottis a Researcher at the think-tank Doteveryone, where his work explores ...
Apr 01, 2019•41 min
Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia and campaigner for an open knowledge society) once claimed that “The internet interprets any type of centralised planning as a malfunction and routes around it. The command-and-control model is doomed to failure here by the very nature of the network. This is inevitable”. Many of the pioneers of open data, such as Tim Berners-Lee and Richard Stallman, have shared this vision. Yet the world of finance is still predicated on the command-and-control model. A small ...
Feb 08, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Imposter syndrome is a big issue in the data sector, particularly in leaders. Everyone thinks they should know more about it. When leaders don’t confront impostor syndrome or seek help to develop their data skills it can cause blockers. They start working on assumptions, bring in expensive consultants etc. Simon Bullmore will discuss his own experience of imposter syndrome, and will share how data literacy can help by giving you a starting point that relates more to your own context and needs. A...
Feb 01, 2019•35 min
watch the lecture here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQYdksc8W44&list=PL6DDzoHu1cx1ozmghXXCgzwHF8Ln8Tlv8&index=4&t=0s This talk will present a PhD research project, which is looking at how communities employ data-driven approaches to address urban sustainability issues in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Over the past year, Roza Vasileva, PhD Candidate at the University of Nottingham, has conducted expert interviews with 25 representatives from various stakeholder groups of the Tanzanian d...
Jan 25, 2019•48 min
ODI Fridays are free lunchtime lectures for everyone. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk. We talk about smart homes as if they had already become a reality but for many they are a worrying trend towards data being hoovered up for advertising purposes elsewhere. Based on her book ‘Smarter Homes: how technology will change your home life’ author and designer Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino will speak about the relationships be...
Dec 14, 2018•55 min
This talk highlights the findings in a foundational piece of analysis by Ctrl-Shift of the economic opportunities for the UK economy of personal data mobility, the market challenges and a framework to design for trust. Personal data mobility is a significant economic and policy issue. Enabling personal data to flow between entities in a trusted and lawful manner, that protects and respects the data protection rights of individuals, is widely recognised as critical to the growth of digital econom...
Dec 07, 2018•52 min
Governments and publicly accountable bodies routinely make complex decisions that directly influence huge numbers of people – everything from future climate policy, transport planning and local budgets to pivoting an entire police force. But how do you meaningfully engage the public in decision making when there are numerous factors in play, complex constraints and different options for policy and service delivery? Asking the public: ‘Do you want us to spend more on roads or social care?’ is mea...
Nov 30, 2018•53 min
In a humanitarian emergency, maps save lives. MapAction is a UK based charity that provides expert mapping and information management support in the wake of emergencies all over the world. Consisting mostly of volunteers, MapAction aims to be on the ground within 48 hours, gathering information and making maps to ensure the right help gets to the most vulnerable people as soon as possible. Johnny Henshall will introduce what MapAction do, how they work and his experiences of being a volunteer fo...
Nov 23, 2018•44 min
Headlines about the BBC’s Local News Partnership with regional publishers have focused on the employment of 150 journalists to cover council news across the UK. But another part of the Partnership is breaking new ground too — seconding journalists from the regional Press into the BBC to work with BBC journalists in a shared data unit, which is already generating agenda-setting stories through the UK Peter Sherlock will describe how the Local News Partnership fits into the UK’s data journalism la...
Nov 18, 2018•48 min
Zamila Bunglawala, JRF Fellow in Practice at the LSE International Inequalities Institute and Deputy Director of the Cabinet Office Race Disparity Unit, will be presenting the world’s first website to detail all Government data by ethnicity, published and unpublished, highlighting disparities between ethnic groups across areas including education, employment, health, housing and criminal justice. Developed in collaboration with academics, open data experts, community groups, NGOs central and loc...
Nov 09, 2018•49 min
About the speaker Alistair Gentry is a writer and artist, currently research artist in residence at the ODI. Previous residencies include the ESRC Genomics Policy & Research Forum at the University of Edinburgh, and Cambridge University’s Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Many of his art projects are the result of extensive research in particular places, subjects and communities, sometimes over the course of many years. He also likes silly costumes, museums, absurdity, visiting the unca...
Nov 02, 2018•53 min
The Reform team will be presenting the findings of their report Sharing the benefits: how to use data effectively in the public sector, published this summer. The report demonstrates the potential of data sharing to transform the delivery of public services and improve outcomes for citizens. It explores how government can overcome various challenges to ‘get data right’ and enable better use of personal data within and between public-sector organisations. About the speakers Luke Heselwood is a Re...
Oct 05, 2018•39 min
Hear Carl Malamud of Public Resource share his efforts to make knowledge more broadly available on the Internet. Carl will discuss the battle to make government databases of patents, laws, and corporate filings available as well as a global campaign to make public safety codes mandated by law available to the public. Carl will also share his current efforts in India to make works of government, technical knowledge, and scientific knowledge available for all to use. About the speaker Carl Malamud...
Sep 28, 2018•53 min
ODI Fridays lunchtime lecture: Adapting to the needs of modern data and intelligence work by The Open Data Institute
Sep 14, 2018•42 min
The Data Science Campus at the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) works at the frontier of data science and AI – building skills and applying tools, methods and practices – to create new understanding and improve decision-making for the public good. Its goals are to investigate the use of new data sources, including administrative data and big data, and to help build data science capability in the UK. The talk will show how data science is being used across government to support policy-ma...
Jul 06, 2018•33 min
Do you work with data in government, provide it to government or use government data? In this lunchtime lecture, hear from ONS and Swirrl about their work on a project that reaches across the Government Statistical Service and aims to support you in finding, understanding and using government statistical data. The project flips the traditional way of organising government data on its head and considers data in terms of families: groups of related data collections, rather than in terms of which o...
Jun 29, 2018•45 min
When data is used effectively it can affect how we pay our tax, draw pensions and get our bins collected. New service delivery models – an Open Data Institute (ODI) project – was started in 2017 to increase the understanding of data-enabled service delivery models in local government, and to improve services encourage publishing more open data to improve public services. As part of the project, we awarded funding to four forward-thinking local government organisations to develop open data projec...
May 11, 2018•28 min
ODI RDP3 podcast by The Open Data Institute
May 10, 2018•20 min
Bad data is everywhere. A CSV that doesn’t load, a spreadsheet that is badly formatted, a date column that has different formats, and so on. A lot of time is spent fixing these issues, instead of actually analysing the data. In this talk, you’ll hear about Good Tables, a tabular data validator that is able to check for issues like: All rows have the same number of columns There are no duplicate rows The data types are correct (e.g. a numeric column has only numbers, a date column has only dates ...
May 04, 2018•31 min
In this emotive talk, author Graham Hogg shares his frontline experience of leading teams in Afghanistan and how connecting decision making to data enabled teams to adapt and overcome challenges. https://seeingaroundcorners.com/ About the speaker Graham began his career as a Royal Marines Commando Officer, specialising in Intelligence. Working in Afghanistan, the Southern Arabian Gulf and Sierra Leone, this experience led him to the belief that the level of cognitive diversity and connectivity i...
Apr 27, 2018•38 min
An overview of our "community voices" podcasts exploring open standards for data.
Apr 05, 2018•11 min
