We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been named finalists in the British Data Awards 2021, for both the ‘Data for Good Initiative of the Year’ and the ‘Not-For-Profit of the Year’ categories.
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The national census is a rare and momentous occasion, especially if you’re a champion of data for good. Understanding our changing population and changing needs are vital for planning for our future.
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The latest Data Orchard Newsletter:
Data4good tips, tools and tales... March 2021.
The public sector appears to have taken a bigger interest in data maturity recently, with a spate of new strategies launched. So what’s happening, and how seriously is data maturity being taken across the different parts of the UK? Ben Proctor gives us a summary...
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Data Orchard Newsletter: February 2021
Welcome to the first of our regular monthly newsletters!
In November we asked people who had completed an assessment for some details on the impact it had had on their organisation. Wondering why you should take a data maturity assessment? Here are three reasons based on the findings of that report.
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We are pleased to announce the winners of the prize draw we organised to thank people for taking part in our Data Maturity Assessment user survey.
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We are very excited to announce three outstanding people have joined Data Orchard’s Board: Edafe Onerhime, Mark Sellors, and Suraj Vagdama.
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Jamie Whyte’s published some R code which takes some input data and turns it into a sound file. I have experimented with forcing the data onto musical scales and creating MIDI files with the data.
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When Lockdown 2 was announced but before it came in, we saw a spike in Herefordians visiting Retail and Recreation sites in the county. This was in-line with behaviour seen in other parts of England.
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Following the success of the inaugural #Data4Good conference we led in 2018, more than 20 social sector support organisations and charities are coming together to host #Data4GoodFest on 10th – 12th May 2021.
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Today we have launched a survey of the people who have used our data maturity tool. We want to understand what difference (if any) the data maturity assessment made in their organisation. The results will help us to understand the impact we are having on the sector as well as guiding us as we create new versions of the tool.
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In Part 2 of this blog, we cover four lessons we learned through the process of researching, designing, and testing our data maturity assessment tool.
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Yesterday we at Data Orchard CIC celebrated our 7th birthday with a (Zoom enabled) birthday party. We're grateful to all those who came to celebrate with us. Alongside the dancefloor, the craft room and the networking in various breakout rooms our co-Chief Executives took a few moments to reflect on the past 7 years and to talk about where we are going next.
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Visits to restaurants, cafes, shopping centres and other “retail and recreation sites” returned to pre-lockdown levels for the first time last week according to our analysis of Google Mobility Data.
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We’ve been researching how social sector organizations leverage their data since 2015. Here’s some of what we’ve learned, and how it led us to create our Data maturity assessment tool. Part 1.
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In 1821 mine owners across the Dawley coalfields (in what is now Telford, Shropshire) agreed to collectively reduce miners’ pay. Local papers reported it as Shropshire’s own Peterloo “Cinderloo” but over the ensuring decades the incident has been largely forgotten. A Telford based community group aims to bring this incident back to life for local people. They asked us to help them with some web mapping. Following an initial conversation we introduced them to two web-mapping tools.
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We’re looking for new board members to help us on our mission. Board member post are unpaid but the rewards are great.
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Two thousand young people from Herefordshire will enter the labour market this summer. The economic prospects that face them are worrying.
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We’ve been investigating what additional datasets might help strengthen our collective understanding of what is happening in the economy of Herefordshire.
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