Open Innovations

17/01/2025

Bristolians, what do you think of our hex layout of Bristol's wards? If you don't like what we've done we'd encourage you to rearrange hexes using the links from https://github.com/open-innovations/uk-wards-2024/ save the output, and update the file in the repository.

17/01/2025

For those in the UK struggling to stay warm this winter, we've collated almost 10,000 offers of warm spaces from third-sector and local authority directories: warm.open-innovations.org

A directory of directories of warm spaces.

17/01/2025

Geo Mappers - We've arranged a hex map of wards for Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, the north and south west of England. If you feel like lending a hand for the rest of England we'd appreciate the help https://github.com/open-innovations/uk-wards-2024/

16/01/2025

Buses, Buses, Buses - Great work from our team who have been busy exploring bus data to make an open bus tracking tool.
We hope it will help with transport planning - so even more people can use buses efficiently- read about & use the work here

https://open-innovations.org/blog/2025-01-15-tracking-the-buses

13/01/2025

It's very cold - so please use & share our Warm Spaces finder tool for those who need it. It is updated regularly but please get in touch if you have any amends/additions.

https://warm.open-innovations.org

02/01/2025

A New Year - a new skill? In our work on transport accessibility we have learnt a lot about both GTFS and GTFS-RT and wanted to share to help others avoid some of the difficulty getting to grips with the data.

https://open-innovations.org/blog/2024-12-23-gtfs-and-gtfs-rt-for-beginners

30/12/2024

Our final post of 2024 is a wrap up of our work with Youth Futures Foundation where we built an open data platform to enable YFF & others understand & make decisions about the youth employment market.
Read more and see the work here https://open-innovations.org/blog/2024-12-23-wrapping-up-with-youth-futures-foundation-and-how-open-data-can-improve-outcomes-for-young-people

27/12/2024

Culture impacts our lives in so many ways - we love our work in this sector - helping orgs use & visualise their data to make a difference to people & society

https://open-innovations.org/projects/culture/

24/12/2024

Merry Christmas to all from Open Innovations - thank you to all our sponsors, clients and friends 🎄

https://open-innovations.org/advent/card-2024/

23/12/2024

Need some holiday reading ? Our blog can help - full of projects, tools, research & development - happy reading :)

https://open-innovations.org/blog/

20/12/2024

Use your time wisely over Christmas - learn a new skill with our Toolbox of tips & tricks

https://open-innovations.org/data/toolbox/

19/12/2024

Merry Christmas from all at Open Innovations

https://open-innovations.org/advent/card-2024/

18/12/2024

The internet consumes a lot of electricity. You may not think of websites as sources of carbon emissions but they are - we are on a mission to reduce these emissions - please join in

https://open-innovations.github.io/council-website-emissions/

18/12/2024

We have visualised the latest data from Food Banks - Give Food on our

https://constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/society/food-banks/

17/12/2024

We made an explorer tool to look at 's financial interests - created by automatically parsing the Register of Members' Financial Interests - see for yourself here and get in touch if you see any mistakes

https://open-innovations.org/projects/RMFI/ #26408-1

17/12/2024

Visualising Cultural Data has become a bit of a speciality for us - find out how we are helping this sector make an impact

Open Innovations is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that works with sponsors, organisations and individuals to innovate with data. Over the years, we've become a specialist in improving how businesses collect, process, visualise, interpret and publish their data, allowing them to see a d...

17/12/2024

Please share our finder tool far & wide this to help those in need

https://warm.open-innovations.org/find

11/12/2024

A big thank you to for hosting us today as we near the end of our On Tour year in 2024. We are working on their data dashboard and open data strategy so watch this space as it evolves.

https://data.bradford2025.co.uk/strategy/