Yes it is something special isn't it
25.02.2026 21:35
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Yes it is something special isn't it
I recently spoke at the Liverpool Festival of Data about our participatory data governance work. This is a theme we have been working on for over 10 years. This blog post explains our rationale, the work that has been underpinning it and why this is so important at this point in time.
If you are in Manchester on 18th March this in-person afternoon event should be really good and it's free #IMD25 #opendata
If anyone wants to download a high-resolution version of this as well as the all indices IMD poster they can be downloaded from our Github here: github.com/OpenDataManc...
Poster visualising the creative Education, Skills and Training Deprivation in England in 2025. The visualisation shows the relative deprivation of local authorities with the mist deprived in the top-left hand corner and least bottom right. The shapes are coloured according to the political control of the local authority
After publishing the IMD and Political Control poster in December. I took a dive into the some of the individual indices. One that stuck out was Education, Skill & Training. Many of the LAs shifted position with London doing particularly well. I am unsure why this is, but interested to find out.
Neon sign with the words Open Data Night illuminated
If anyone is interested in what we have been up to lately and some of the events we've got lined up, have a look at our newsletter. We have Open:Data:Night, Design Justice and the LCR Data Community of Practice in Feb, so come join us. mailchi.mp/72539f0e18c4...
There are some really interesting talks already lined up
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
As the image is very large it renders really badly on Blusky and Wordpress. A2 high-resolution versions of IMD25, IMD19 and IMD15 can be found here: github.com/OpenDataManc... We are also selling A2 fine art posters of the IMD25 - proceeds go to our community work
Each local authority can have its own set of tableware. Not sure how functional some of it would be though.
If something strange is going on its always the bears
IMD 2019 poster showing relative deprivation across English local authorities
Especially when you compare it to 2019. Leeds is 7 down and 8 across
Visiting from the Green planet by the looks of it
Yep I had to double check as it looked really odd, but there is something interesting going on there.
They can be found on here www.gov.uk/government/s... The link is on the poster, but it is only for reference.
There is a link to a high resolution file that is downloadable from Github on the page. I hadn't realised that WP did that which is annoying
Poster showing with the relative deprivation profiles of the 296 English local authorities laid out. The poster depicts the most deprived local authority of Blackpool top left and least, Hart, at the bottom
The recent release of the Index of Multiple Deprivation by UK Gov. allowed me to indulge my twin interests of psephology and demographics. The results a visualisation of the deprivation profiles of the 296 English local authorities. More info here www.opendatamanchester.org.uk/revisiting-p...
👇This is going to be a lot of fun. Do come and join us and tell your friends 😀
Today we are on a Joy Diversion in Macclesfield and it is our biggest ever with over 45 people in 9 explorer teams.This Saturday we are a running its sister event Free Range Liverpool at the Central Library. Come and join us bit.ly/ODM-FRL1
I don't think it is the technology per se although there are some pretty horrendous applications of it, but how it is being used as a replacement for human endeavour in the pursuit of efficiency which is in my mind a false goal.
I was on a conference panel about AI in the Public Sector this week and a question from a healthcare professional inspired me to write an article on the Privatisation of Institutional Memory. Hyperbolic? Maybe. Important? I think yes.
bit.ly/ODM-ART2
#ai #publicsector #society
This is going to be fun 👇
For the last 8 years we have been developing resources and working with people who want to understand and use data for their own communities. @sammilsom.bsky.social writes about our Data for Communities work www.opendatamanchester.org.uk/data-for-com...
Interested in mutual data governance? The next Data Cooperative Working Group meeting is tomorrow 16.00-17.00 BST - We are looking at sustainability. bit.ly/ODM-DCWG21 Open to everyone
This is one of the most incredibly deranged photography projects I've ever seen and will appeal enormously to anyone who has had to cover Leveson / press reform / vaguely remembers when British newspapers had power. www.jenniferforwardhayter.co.uk/leveson-proj...
Joy Diversion poster with text over layer in white and black strips over a line map of Manchester. The text reads: Calling all ramblers, explorers and meanderers. Surveyors, cartographers and inquisitors. People who look up to the rooftops and down in the culverts. The wandering returns Joy Diversion - Saturday 17th Many 10am-4pm Altogether Otherwise, 6-10 Hanover Street, Manchester M4 4BB. Price - Free Join us for a day of mapping, exploring and wandering in Central Manchester and Salford Viewed as a functional place of work, retail and leisure, our city centre bounded by Trinity Way, Great Ancoats Street and the Mancunian Way is imbued with history, iniquity, celebration and endeavour. Let us go out and find what's out there, discover the forgotten spaces, create stories and map our city. This is not a guided tour - this is an adventure Propose expeditions to unchartered territories, revisit previously known places, strange meanderings and any other diversions that you fancy. You will need: Yourself Comfortable walking shoes or what ever you need to get around Weather appropriate clothing (hopefully sun cream rather than waterproofs1) Water Contributions of biscuits and cake welcome. Register here: https://bit.ly/ODM-JOY17
Looking for something to do in Manchester next weekend? Come along to the next Joy Diversion. It is fun and free, and you will always discover something.
bit.ly/ODM-JOY17
We love doing these. You never know quite where you are going to end, they are full of fun, wonder and JOY!
Mmm data, mmm coops, mmm #datacooperatives
Has Yodel just downed tools in time for Christmas? The website was saying services were temporarily unavailable this morning now there is a notice saying they are not accepting any more parcels www.yodeldirect.co.uk
