By Julian Tait, CEO Open Data Manchester CIC Over the last six months, we’ve been developing a series of workshops that introduce people to the open data that is about
Open:Data:Night is an open session for anyone with an idea, project or interest related to open data and data practice. We usually host an Open:Data:Night every few months, and they
By Jamie Whyte. On Tuesday 14th May, we held an Open Data Manchester special — an election hack! Local elections had taken place across the country the previous week, and we wanted
In a world awash with data, the ability to make the right decisions regarding the use of data becomes increasingly more complex and difficult. Our capacity to create, collect and
On Saturday 27th April, Joy Diversion returned for the first time this year. Despite having been visited Storm Hannah the night before, our intrepid explorers weren’t put off and we
On Tuesday 26th February, Open Data Manchester decamped from our usual home at The Federation and trotted down to Tech Incubator in the Manchester Science Park on Oxford Road, where
This was our first meeting at a new venue, the Innovation Centre of Manchester Science Park. There was around 20 attendees, mostly new faces to LoRaWAN and our Things Manchester
On Tuesday 29th January, we hosted our first public meetup of 2019 — ‘Open:Data:Night’, an evening of presentation and project sharing from Manchester’s open data community. Tom Passmore from Dsposal kicked off
We’re happy to announce that we’ve partnered with Stockport Council on a project called ‘Mapping Mobility Stockport’, funded through the ODI Geospatial Fund. Working with Age UK and Disability Stockport,
During the first weekend of November, the Open Data Manchester team travelled to Aberdeen for Open Data Camp 6, an ‘unconference’ for all things open data. Hosted on the University