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#bdw13 @m_barrett
What is Leeds Data Thing? Encouraging likeminded people to talk data over a pint in Leeds since January 2013
www.leedsdatathing.co.uk
@JenGarrick
@Andy_Tweets
Who attends?
Web developers, designers, analysts, professors, students, artists, bloggers, marketers, open data enthusiasts, and lots inbetween.
3 Speakers
Tim Waters on the evolution of OpenStreetMap, other Geo Visualisations and Analytics
Andy Bolton on the demographic mapping of Leeds and visualising child poverty in the city
Mark Barrett on how to be creative, and the importance of using Open Data to build things that people can understand
Launch night
@RobWebster_LCH was kind enough to launch the Big Data Week for us here in Leeds and spoke about what Open Data means to him
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@garrycoleman
@grahamhyde
Data about athletes from DBPedia Map regions from Ordnance Survey Regional population data from the 2011
Census
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Decided to go with the concept of Leeds is covered and wanted something showing the labels of the practices over the areas where they were. Filling out the map, so to speak.
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> $500 per capita doesn't affect life expectancy In Leeds, income drives health factors across its
wards.
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http://bdw.neofonie.de
http://wellberlin.herokuapp.com
The results
Antonio Acuna / @diabulos Head of data.gov.uk at the UK Cabinet Office
Lessons learned
What worked well? High profile judges gave gravitas to the event International entries brought further insight Social media spread the world well Events building up to the main event build momentum and noise Loading datasets onto a central sql Server meant teams could work together and work remotely Having HSCIC support on hand really helped What could we improve Inviting a bank of public health registrars to serve as a resource for all teams, to help with issues such as association versus causation; confidence intervals; axes; confounding;risk adjustment; age and sex standardisation Inviting a bank of interested parties to suggest some problems/issues that the teams could tackle
What next...
A Leeds Data Thing event every 6 weeks(ish) Another data challenge in Autumn 2013 Engaging with more groups within the city Put Leeds on the map as the leading city for data Highlight the careers available to data analysts after study Use resources available within the city Make more data understandable to a wide range of people within Leeds
Questions...
#bdw13 @m_barrett