OpenDataCommunities and Hampshire Hub presentation for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Chief Executives 14th November 2014
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Joint presentation by Steve Peters and Mark Braggins for Hampshire and Isle of Wight local authority Chief Executives about OpenDataCommunities and the Hampshire Hub linked open data initiatives.
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OpenDataCommunities and Hampshire Hub presentation for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Chief Executives 14th November 2014
- 1. OpenDataCommunities and Hampshire Hub Using data to improve outcomes for individuals and communities Briefing for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Chief Executives 14th November 2014 Steve Peters Strategic Statistics Division, Analysis and Innovation Directorate Mark Braggins Hampshire County Council / Hampshire Hub Partnership
- 2. Contents 1) Open data - What is it and why does it matter? 2) Introducing OpenDataCommunities ○ Progress and achievements to date ○ Next steps 3) Introducing Hampshire Hub ○ Progress and achievements to date ○ Next steps 4) Future vision and next steps 5) Questions for discussion
- 3. Open data What is it and why does it matter? The facts and evidence to enable public, voluntary and private sector organisations to: • Provide better local services for people – through planning and targeting for specific local priorities and needs. • Support strong communities where people feel they belong – through services that are more open, transparent and accountable to local residents and communities. • Secure cost-savings and efficiencies for public sector organisations and partnerships. • Support businesses to grow and create jobs – through developing local economies, and secure economic growth. • A means to unlock facts and evidence held in different organisational and system silos, and thus realise the benefits above. • Ensuring that data can be used in new, innovative ways by new audiences including local residents, communities and businesses. Data Open Data The prize is a web of data, where local and national sources from many organisations can be quickly and easily brought together and re-used in a wide range of ways.
- 4. Open Data: why it matters Some examples (1) Integrating local health and social care: the Better Care Fund DCLG priority Jane is part of an Integrated Care Team. She needs data from national and local organisations to help her plan and deliver personalised care packages, and know whether these are making a difference to the overall targets and objectives for her area. The data sources that Jane needs and uses include: ● National data on avoidable emergency admissions; admissions to residential and care homes ● Local data on pressures within adult social care; effectiveness of recovery and rehabilitation measures. The prize is a web of data, where local and national sources from many organisations can be quickly and easily brought together and re-used in a wide range of ways.
- 5. Open Data: why it matters Some examples (2) Community participation e.g. Neighbourhood Planning DCLG priority Geoff is a Parish Councillor, leading a local group to prepare a Neighbourhood Plan. In order to establish a coherent plan for their neighbourhood, the group needs evidence from a range of sources: • DCLG’s statistics on deprivation. • The Local Authority’s assessment of the housing market and land availability/allocations for housing across the local area. • Office for National Statistics data on the local population and demography. • Ofsted data on performance of local schools • Police data on local crimes. The prize is a web of data, where local and national sources from many organisations can be quickly and easily brought together and re-used in a wide range of ways.
- 6. Open Data: why it matters Some examples (3) Doing business with the Local Authority and other local agencies: e.g. procurement & contracts DCLG priority Alan runs a local construction company, and wants to explore opportunities for new business with his Local Authority. To help him do this, Alan needs data from: • DCLG – on numbers and types of households, and Local Authority budgets and expenditure. • The Local Authority, on spending over £500 under specific services. • Neighbouring councils, on contracts awarded for construction projects. • Companies house, on suppliers of similar services. The prize is a web of data, where local and national sources from many organisations can be quickly and easily brought together and re-used in a wide range of ways.
- 7. OpenDataCommunities Vision and potential for end-2015 A platform for routinely publishing all DCLG datasets in fully open, accessible and re-usable formats Helping Jane, Geoff and Alan to quickly find and use data to solve their problems by re-using DCLG’s data alongside related sources. Which means An integrated, open, accessible source of DCLG’s data, including: Homelessness statistics Housing statistics LA finance statistics Arms-Length bodies Maps and geography Other Central Government sources – e.g. e.g. Planning Appeals, Social Housing Register Local Authority Sources – e.g. Spending Ministry of Justice Repossessions data Office for National Statistics (e.g. Census, local Labour Markets) Contracts & tenders Housing & Planning registers Companies House Data Linking Energy Performance Registers Apps and insights for user communities, e.g. Neighbourhood Planning Local businesses Housing service providers
- 9. http://london-fire.labs.theodi.org/explore/ The web of data…what can it do? Linking new sources for a better, more open understanding of policy objectives and outcomes A prototype policy tool to: • measure the efficiency of dealing with fire emergencies in London Boroughs. • estimate the impact of change as one or more stations are closed. Response times weighted by mobile phone activity (footfall) • Uses London Fire Brigade’s public data on incidents • Blended with data from mobile phones (Telefonica) on concentrations of people at different locations. Fire Station before & after closure
- 10. Enabling 3rd party innovation and new insights spendnetwork.com Illustreets.co.uk Brings together local data on spending, contracts and suppliers. Covers Districts, Counties and Central Government Departments Blends national data - e.g. on house prices, rents and deprivation - with local sources - e.g. on schools, and crime.
- 11. The rise (and rise) of Local Authority open data sites…
- 13. A broad, strong Partnership There are currently 21 22* Hampshire Hub partners. These include: ● 11 District Councils ● 2 National Parks ● County Council ● Fire Service ● British Army ● 3 unitaries ● Police ● DCLG ● Ordnance Survey* Hampshire Hub extends beyond ‘just’ Hampshire, and includes the Isle of Wight, South Downs National Park, several neighbouring counties, and has benchmarking data for all of England.
- 14. Informing Hampshire (and beyond) ● Help inform decision-making ● Accessible & open by default The world doesn’t stop at the county line ● Store, present and link local with national (and other local) data ● Sharing an evidence base reduces duplication ● Resource for voluntary, public, private sectors & local communities
- 16. Area Profiles - Introduction Click image to watch video
- 17. Open Data Communities Geo Selector Click image to watch video
- 18. Some Hampshire Hub initiatives ● Planning Register for Hampshire & Isle of Wight (also Surrey) • The project led to creation of a national standard for planning data used by ODUG for the Local Authority incentive scheme • Working with My Society who are developing the ‘Open Planning’ tool
- 19. Hampshire Hub Initiatives ● Aerial photography for the whole of the county released as open data (also height and near infrared) ● Weather You Do or Whether you Don’t ● Crowd-Sourcing Landscape Change ● IC Tomorrow - Using data to support independent living ● UK Space Agency Earth Observation data - flood warning ● Open Cities Data Platform ● (Open) Data Co Ops "If you open things up, good things happen"
- 20. Hacking can be...good! ● BlueLightCamp in May 2014 helping tackle issues around emergency services and resilience ● Know Now / Hartree Centre: “Weather You Do or Whether You Don’t” - extract value from historic data - use to inform future decisions ● February 2015: Open Data Camp ● May 2015 Hampshire Hub Open Data Jam
- 21. Future vision and next steps Within the next 5 years: All public organisations will routinely release datasets for users to quickly discover, combine and interpret in their local context, to support more open, accountable and cost-effective public services, and local economic development and growth. 1. Publish based on user demand, balancing costs and benefits 2. Work pro-actively in partnerships to : ● engage with users so that data is actively used alongside related external sources to deliver innovative new tools and insights. ● build and spread best practice based on common standards. 3. Use our own and related third party sources more efficiently and cost-effectively when designing and implementing policies and programmes. How? (principles)
- 22. Questions for discussion 1. What are your priorities for better use of data? Where do you think the biggest benefits are to be found? 2. What opportunities are you aware of to exploit data to improve services and improve efficiency that aren’t being taken up? 3. What are the barriers? Skills? IT? Awareness? 4. How can we help?
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- Good morning, and thank you very much for the opportunity to speak with you today about open data. My name is Steve Peters. I head up the team in DCLG that’s leading the charge to unlock Department’s datasets. Amongst other things, I’m responsible for OpenDataCommunities: DCLG’s platform for publishing its data in fully open, accessible forms so that anyone case use it to deliver innovative new tools and insights. With me is Mark Braggins. Good morning. I'm Mark Braggins. I am Business Development Manager within Hampshire County Council’s Research and Intelligence Unit. I lead the Geodata and Information Projects team, and am leading the Hampshire Hub Programme on behalf of the Partnership.
- We’d like to spend the next 30-40 minutes illustrating what open data is, and how it can help you and us (working in partnerships) improve outcomes for individuals and communities. I’ll start by describing data, and open data, and why I think it is important in a local context. I’ll illustrate this with examples of how we are linking-up national and local sources, working in partnership with innovators like Mark. I’ll then move on to introduce OpenDataCommunities, outlining progress to date and our future priorities. Mark will then update you on his work with the Hampshire Hub. We’ll end by outlining our thoughts on priorities and next steps for local and national open data, as an integrated resource – with some time for questions and discussion.
- So, let’s get started. You may be asking or wondering: what is this data and open data thing, and why does it matter? I’ll try to answer that here with two observations: Firstly, data is simply a means to an end. It is no more than an organised collection of evidence and facts to support us and our partners shape and deliver our policies and programmes. What matters is how we collect, use and share it to support shared decision-making, and communicate and engage with residents, communities. Secondly, data is about so much more than transparency. My view is that its and essential tool to help us plan, monitor and adapt our priorities in and for different localities. I’m showing on the slide how data is a key ingredient of DCLG’s priorities. It underpins things like: ensuring that local services remain aligned with local needs; helping residents to better understand and engage in local decision making; working more efficiently and cost effectively; and developing local economies. For you, I imagine that data is essential for responding to big policy challenges, such as welfare reform and Universal Credit; troubled families; plus reforming health and social care, and introducing the Better Care fund. Now, the trouble with data is that it is often locked away in silos within separate organisations at local and national levels. I often hear how our users (including Local Authorities) are frustrated by the time and effort involved in ferreting through websites to find that latest spreadsheet, and copy/paste the rows or columns they need. Open Data is simply a means to liberating data from these silos, so that it can be more quickly and easily combined and re-used. As indicated at the bottom of the slide, the prize is a web of data – which, in essence, is a smarter way of joining up local and national sources for multiple purposes and multiple audiences.
- I thought it would help to illustrate how and where open data can help us in a really practical sense. So, I’ve developed three personas based on our work with various data users. First is Jane… Jane works at the front-line in a new Integrated Care Team, supporting development and delivery of personalised care. She, her team, and the wider network of health professionals will clearly need to know whether individual care plans are working, both for the individuals concerned, and for the broader priorities in the Better Care fund. This requires data – lots of it, from multiple local and national sources. I think it will include national information on emergency hospital admissions and residential care placements; alongside local intelligence on pressures within social care services, and the effectiveness of recovery and rehabilitation measures. Clearly, some of this information will be shared privately amongst health professionals. But subsets will also need to be available publicly, to help residents choose care packages, or understand and challenge decisions.
- My second persona is Geoff, a parish councillor leading development of a neighbourhood plan. We know from a survey of around 20 Neighbourhood Planning areas that there is clear demand for data from lots of local and national sources. let’s imagine that Geoff’s priority is to ensure the right mix of housing. To do that, he will need data from DCLG, on topics such as household projections or neighbour-hood level deprivation, mixed with sources from the Local Authority on say planning applications and housing land allocations. He may also need to blend this with other sources – e.g. on local schools, and perhaps local crime (if for instance the neighbourhood plan intends to address anti-social behaviour in the local community). This will extend to sources on other topics of local importance – such as transport, or the environment. So, again, the point is that we need smarter ways of linking together national and local sources for multiple audiences.
- My third and final persona is Alan, who runs a local construction company and is looking for new business with the local council. To do this, Alan might need data from DCLG on the characteristics of local housing and households. He could also blend this with detailed data from Land Registry on individual property sales. To understand the opportunity, Alan may also use local data on spending and contracts, linked to information from Companies House on his competitors.
- At this point, you may ask “how are we going to build this web of integrated local and national data?” At DCLG, I’m focussed on testing and proving that we can provide data that is genuinely open and accessible for re-use alongside related sources. The Solution is OpenDataCommunities. Diagram highlights how we have built a platform, or channel for releasing DCLG data that can be linked, over the web to other people’s datasets. These include a mix of central government and local authority sources. Diagram also shows how the results are open for re-use in new applications, for new audiences – including Neighbourhood Planning, Local Businesses etc. Does it actually work, and how is it making a difference?
- Currently, OpenDataCommunities comprises around 170 DCLG datasets. We have a mixture of statistics on housing, planning and Local Government finance; detailed data on services provided by individual councils; and information on registered providers of social housing. We’ve worked closely with partners and users (including Mark) to ensure we’re providing what users want, in the most accessible and useable forms. This has resulted in tools for the non-technical user to quickly access, link together and extract data about particular places – e.g. to retrieve everything we know about Eastleigh. Alongside these tools, we’ve developed various low cost applications which illustrate the art of the possible around visualising data in new/interesting ways, and linking it to third party sources. The point here is to stimulate interest from others to develop new/innovative tools. This is happening – e.g. through our work with innovators delivering new mobile applications for the housing rental market. Finally, and most importantly, we’re working with the local sector to ensure that OpenDataCommunities can provide data on demand, for use within local sites alongside non-DCLG sources. Currently, we are providing data feeds to LGA’s LG-Inform service, to support local performance benchmarking. You’ll hear from Mark shortly how we are working with Hampshire Hub to blend DCLG and local data about and for this locality.
- Before I hand over to Mark, I wanted to offer some examples of how third-parties are using our data to deliver innovative new on-line services and insights. This example shows experimental work supported by the Open Data Institute to understand the impact of fire station closures in London. It interests me because it blends London Fire Brigade’s detailed data on incident response times, with anonymised information on mobile phone activity over a four day period. The latter was used as a proxy for where people are gathering at different times of the day, and – therefore – a potentially more accurate input to understand impact on response times. The resulting application shows likely impact on response times before and after station closures, for London as a whole, and individual London Boroughs. We can imagine how these sorts of “big data” sources and analytical techniques might be applied to other local issues – e.g. transforming health and social care, or universal credit.
- Two further examples are spendnetwork.com, and illustreets.co.uk. Spendnetwork is a relatively new site which blends data from Central and Local Government on spending and contracts. The screen shot shows spending patterns in Hampshire’s data. The site also enables data to be explored and re-used in other ways, e.g. to answer questions such as which companies have contracts with multiple organisations. Illustreets brings together lots of data about neighbourhoods. This includes and interesting mix of public sources (such as DCLG data on deprivation), and private-sector open datasets – e.g. on housing rental values. I think these examples illustrate how the web of data is coming to life, to benefit particular audiences.
- Finally, I wanted to mention some of the great work happening across local government to unlock its own datasets. I’m seeing different but complimentary solutions which help councils climb the open data ladder. Here are four examples. First, Redbridge (top left) developed its datashare platform, underpinned by strong governance in the council to catalogue its data holdings and ensure data was released quickly, in response to user demand. Datashare is currently being rolled-out to up to 100 councils, using funding secured from Cabinet Office’s release of data fund. Second, the Greater Manchester Data Synchronisation Programme (top right) is a collaboration between around 5 councils. This is focussed on building skills and capacity for councils to release data under their own steam, with tools to help users quickly discover and re-use the outputs. Third, is the Leeds Data Mill. This is an interesting collaboration between Leeds City Council and other publishers of data about the Leeds area – including the private sector (North West Water), and voluntary + charity organisations. The project has developed innovative new ways of engaging the public in the open data agenda, such as crowd-sourcing intelligence on the location of public artwork. Lastly, but by no means least is the Hampshire Hub. For me, this is another great example of national and local organisations collaborating to deliver new data and insights for the benefit of local service providers, citizens and communities. I’ll hand over to Mark to tell you more.
- Thanks Steve I’m going to give a quick overview of the Hampshire Hub, which is Hampshire’s Open Data Store and Local Information System
- Just to quickly set the scene: The Hampshire Hub site has existed for some time, first as a ‘thinking aloud’ web site, then a prototype, and then what we've been calling the ‘interim’ Hampshire Hub All of Hampshire’s local authorities, together with several other organisations, including DCLG, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to contribute to the hub. It doesn’t require partners to contribute specific data sets, but establishes the principles for sharing and publishing open data We have regular partnership board meetings, and staff in partner organisations have played an active part in helping to shape the Hampshire Hub Ordnance Survey formally joined as a Hub partner just yesterday, when they returned a signed copy of the Memorandum of Understanding
- Like OpenDataCommunities, the Hampshire Hub is a resource to help inform decision making by providing good quality, robust, up-to-date evidence. Steve used several personas as examples. Many of us have different roles or 'personas' at different times of our lives. Examples include school governors, elected councillors, volunteers, business leaders, employees or employers. In my own case, for example, I have worked in the financial services industry, I've been a company director, I'm currently employed within local government, and I am part of British APCO, which is a voluntary organisation. Open data resources like the Hampshire Hub and Open Data Communities can be valuable resources in all of those examples.
- The New Hampshire Hub - which will be will be available as a public beta in the next couple of weeks - currently has several main components: News and Views - basically an extension of what we have been doing for some time with Protohub, sharing articles, opinion, and analysis. The data store - which makes data available in a structured way, through themes like Health, Population, Economy, and JSNA, also through search The Third main component is Area profiles which assemble and present key data on local areas at various levels of geography, including County, Unitary, District, Ward and Parish I’m now going to show you a short video with an example of an Area Profile
- I’m going to use Fair Oak as an example, which is where I live This is the first version of Area Profiles, based mostly on Census and other nationally available data sets we have obtained via 'data packs' which have been loaded and converted to linked data. Future versions of Area Profiles will be configurable, allowing additional context, commentary and analysis to be added by partners, as well as locally generated data. Eventually we hope to allow individuals to tailor their own area profiles, and even define what constitutes 'an area'. We are also looking at possibilities like a "locate me" button for smartphone and tablet users which will use the devices' GPS This next video is taken from Open Data Communities, which is based on the same underlying technology as the Hampshire Hub This demonstrates how easy it is to pick an area, and select data from a variety of themed data sets
- I have selected both the geography and data at random I will begin with a map view, and then zoom in to the level of geography I'm interested in. In this example I'm going with district, but I could have just as easily selected LSOA {talk through the video} Hopefully that demonstrates how easy it can be for a non-technical user to select a place or places and then choose data from a wide variety of sources. This greatly reduces the amount of time required to gather and assemble data in to a usable form The Hampshire Hub will have something very similar to what I just showed you I'm now going to tell you about a few initiatives we are involved in. Some of these have been instigated by us, and some have been instigated by external parties who want to work with us.
- Planning Authorities already publish planning application information on individual web sites for their local area People who live close to the border need to visit several sites in order to find out what is being proposed near to them. Hampshire was awarded funding from the Open Data Breakthrough Fund to create a register which covers the whole of the Hampshire Hub area, and is potentially replicable elsewhere We are liaising with Planning Authorities in Surrey as well
- Aerial photography The local authorities commissioned Blom Aerofilms to fly the whole of the county in 2013. They captured high resolution imagery, and also height data, and near infrared. We stipulated that we wanted to publish data as open data, and Blom were supportive, giving us the Intellectual Property Rights to publish good quality data. This was before the new Data Store was in place, and we released the data in a raw form, with no delivery mechanism like a web browser The response was hugely positive, and within a few days OpenStreetMap were hosting a web version. Steve here created his own web app, as did several others, including the University of Southampton. Just yesterday, we met with the Geodata Institute in Southampton. They have obtained grant funding to create a new web app, which will include 3D visualisation and flythrough. In the words of Jason Sadler "Weather you do or whether you don't" WuDoWuD I'll tell you a bit more about that shortly.basically it's an initiative to look at the environmental conditions leading up to a weather-related event, like flooding. It uses historic data to identify potential triggers for events, and sets the scene for predictive analytics around weather events. We are working with a private company Know Now Information, and the Science and Technology Council (Hartree Centre for Big Data and Computing). The resultant data will be shared back through the Hampshire Hub with an open licence. Crowd-Sourcing Landscape Change This is a collaboration with Remote Sensing Application Consultants and the University of Portsmouth, funded by Innovate UK (formerly the Technoloogy Strategy Board). Basically we are asking "the crowd" to compare aerial photography from 2005 and 2015 and "spot the difference" - what has been added or removed. That might include trees, hedgerows, buildings, roads, waterways and the like. There are many potential uses, and we are exploring which will be the most beneficial. The resultant change information will be shared through the Hampshire Hub. IC Tomorrow - using data to support independent living IC Tomorrow is an Innovate UK initiative. There is a cash prize awarded to private companies who come up with the most innovative proposals to overcome challenges. We a a challenge partner, together with Ordnance Survey, to help people remain in their own homes for longer. The finalists will be presenting their proposal on 26th November, and we will be working with the successful company and OS to trial their proposal through the Hampshire Hub. UK Space Agency Earth Observation Data This is another collaboration with Remote Sensing Application Consultants, and Know Now Information We submitted an Expression of Interest for Satellite Data with a view to creating a flood warning information system which uses real-time satellite data. We passed the intial Expression of Interest, and submitted a proposal at the end of October. This ties in with the Weather You Do and Whether you don't initiative, and also the Crowd-Sourcing Landscape Change initiative Open Cities Data Platform Nquiringminds - open source platform, roughly £1million funding from Innovate UK. Hampshire was identified in the original proposal, and we have an opportunity to identify a set of challenges or issues which could be addressed through data and technology. The offer is to develop applications which can be demonstrated in Hampshire in 2015, before being rolled-out to other locations, including Liverpool and Cambridgeshire. (Open) Data Co Ops This last initiative is at an early stage.the word "open" is in brackets, as Data Co Ops may largely be closed data, but with an element of open data. We are exploring this particularly with the charity / voluntary sector. Potentially, data co ops could become a significant contributor to the Hampshire Hub, and the data we are making available
- BlueLightCamp is an annual informal networking event for bluelight services, and those who work with them. It also includes and open data hack. Previously it has been held in Manchester, aligned with British APCO's Annual Exhibition and Cinference I am one of the organisers of BlueLightCamp, and this year we decided to hold it in Hampshire instead. This provided an opportunity to bring together an existing themed event with Hampshire Hub and open data. Environment Agency were on hand with lots of flooding data, and that was quite a focus for attendees. One of the outputs that day was tool which automatically tweets Environment Agency's 3 day flood warning. There was also a demonstration by University of Southampton which showed slopes which had been calculated from our Height open data It was at BlueLightCamp that one of the attendees - Chris Cooper - came up with the idea for Weather You Do or Whether You Don't It's also at BlueLightCamp that Chris met Nick Allott, which has led to them collaborating with each other on several initiatives, including using remote sensors in buildings to capture environmental data Another attendee at BlueLightCamp runs the On the Wight hyperlocal news site. He attended not because he is particularly interested in Blue Light Services, but because he is very enthusiastic about the Hampshire Hub and open data, particularly for the Isle of Wight. He has since offered to participate in Weather You Do or Whether You don’t Hopefully that you some insight into a few of the initiatives that are already using the Hampshire Hub. We are actively reaching out to communities and supporting those initiatives which benefit Hampshire and the Isle of Wight as a whole.. Our vision is to play an active part in the web of linked data and for Hampshire Hub to become an invaluable resource for decision-making in and around Hampshire.
- Mark Where would you like us to focus attention - are there particular challenges you would like us to address?