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Building Service Blueprints

Building Service Blueprints

We’re currently providing design and data capabilities to Placecube on a project for Huntingdonshire District Council—supported by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)—to develop a new service that helps residents find the help they need before their situation becomes more difficult.

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New routes for Data Collaborations

New routes for Data Collaborations

The idea that “data is the new oil” has been thoroughly debunked in a number of places, most recently by John Naughton in the Guardian. The Open Data Institute always worked to correct this and have rightly emphasised the importance of treating data as infrastructure...

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Bikes, Bits and Prototypes

Bikes, Bits and Prototypes

Alongside our successful bid with Pollenize to the South West Creative Technology Network’s Data Prototyping Programme, we are also being supported with a different, yet equally exciting collaboration between us and Bikespace CIC.

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Citizen Science Gets Personal

Citizen Science Gets Personal

This summer I returned home to California for a month. With all my planning to travel safely during a health pandemic, what I didn’t count on was the onset of early season fires caused by an unusual lightning event following days of extremely high temperatures.

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Discovering Data for Green Minds

Discovering Data for Green Minds

As part of the Green Minds project we’re running one of our usual data discovery phases, but this time we’ve modified it for online collaboration.

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