One thing we won’t be short of in the future is data – we’ll have detailed analytics about how we live and the world around us. But what about the past? Is it possible to pull together data about the history of our cities and gain some insight int

James Smith, developer at the ODI, is standing for parliament in the 2016 UK general election, and is using open data to do it. In this lecture, he explained how the data that’s out there can provide interesting insights for election campaign planning

GOV.UK performance is a new approach to improving government services, using data. We show the metrics that matter to the civil servants who provide government services. All the dashboards are public – no usernames or passwords – so the government is

If you thought 3D printing was some sort of futuristic sci-fi technology that would never catch on, think again. I can make is a group that produces kits to help teachers, parents and children understand all about 3D printing. Chris Thorpe, I can make’s

Data from the High Speed 2 project has been released under an Open Government Licence. This has provided companies like Landmark an opportunity to enter the world of “Open”. Jez Nicholson told us about the product that Landmark has built upon the HS

You don’t have to look far to find pictures and infographics that visualise data to make us understand it better. But musical representations of data are harder to come by. Developer-musicians Nicholas Tollervey and Simon Davy have taken footfall data

Everyday our cities generate increasingly vast amounts of data. What happens when this data from across public, private and the third sector becomes open? Mark Barrett argues that focussing our use of local data so that it is “for the city, by the cityâ

Governments hold a lot of data. A huge amount of data. And many are beginning to open it up for citizens and businesses to monitor and improve all sorts of things – from education and public services to crime rates and traffic. But all this data has to

The Great British Public Toilet Map is an on-going project to map the UK’s public toilets using open data. It began in 2010 when only one council was publishing toilet data and is soon to relaunch with a database of over 5000 facilities. Gail Ramster de

People tend to think of ‘public goods’ as things like suburban roads that must be built by governments because if governments don’t provide them, then no-one will. But this is an impoverished definition of public goods. In fact, private and public g