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Evidencing impact: using data and telling your story

• Evidence/track success• Evidence need• Write funding proposals• Improve services• Compare with others in sector• Link with other Local Authority data sets• Tell your stories / dissemination

What do you use data for?

More?

“The opportunities offered by wider use of data in the third sector are many, from allowing individual organisations to provide donors and funding bodies with more tangible evidence of their successes, to opening up previously inaccessible datasets that could revolutionise their operations.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/apr/30/open-data-charities-perfect-fit

1. Impact and data

“Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.” OpenDefinition.org

2. Open Data

3. Open data for Social enterprise“Open Data and Transparency may be the most powerful levers of 21st century public policy. They present multiple opportunities offering benefit to the public sector, individuals, businesses and the UK as a whole. Open Data enables accountability; it improves outcomes and productivity in key services through informed comparison; it transforms social relationships – empowering individuals and communities; and it drives dynamic economic growth.” (Open Government Partnership UK 2011) http://www.opengovpartnership.org/countries/united-kingdom

Nominet Trust Charity Open Data Days - What is open data anyway

What sort of data is available?

The Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/

Nottingham data

National source of openly available data http://data.gov.uk/

Local source of openly available data http://www.opendatanottingham.org.uk/

Datablog from the Guardianhttp://www.theguardian.com/data

Complete list of all datasetshttp://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2013/jan/14/all-our-datasets-index

Open Data Bake Off

What/Why/Where?What do you want to

know? show?

What changed? What is possible

that wasn’t before?

http://epicgraphic.com/data-cake/

Data presentation example – antibiotic prescriptions http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/datablog/2013/jun/11/antibiotic-prescription-by-gp-practice-mapped

Data presentation example – all train stations in the UK / passenger datahttp://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/may/19/train-stations-listed-rail

http://astoat.no-ip.org/ - from Open Data Nottingham http://www.opendatanottingham.org.uk/gallery.aspx

Is it safe to eat in a restaurant? Using the Food Standards agency feed (which contains Nottingham's own Food Standards data), this geo-locates your position and shows you rated establishments.

Produced by Barry Corneliushttp://www.rowmaps.com using from Open Data Nottingham http://www.opendatanottingham.org.uk/gallery.aspx

Rights of Way – Rowmaps, Produced by Barry CorneliusUsing Ordnance Survey, OpenStreetMap, Google or Bing.

http://info.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/insightmapping

Nottingham Insight Incredibly detailed interactive map allowing you to add layers of different information

What would you want to use it for?• Better service for your clients• Target demographics / local statistics• Improve presentation of your own data• Identify gaps in provision• A new app• Support a grant tender• Identify patterns in service use

New opportunities?“providing performance information for schools from preschool through college with data from states and other sources, making education choices easier.”

“A company is letting consumers track their energy use and provides tips based on household consumption patterns”http://mashable.com/2013/05/30/7-ways-government-open-data/

What do you think?

Using data in Digital Story-telling to demonstrate impact• Social media• Images / infographics• Blogging• Video

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Star_Trek

InfoGraphic example – Star Trek Timelinehttp://www.space.com/12858-star-trek-timeline-science-fiction-infographic.html

InfoGraphic example – Building an efficient supply chainhttp://energy.gov/articles/building-more-efficient-industrial-supply-chain

http://storify.com/storify/oklahoma-struck-by-tornadoes-week-in-review

http://www.depaulnightstopuk.org/what-we-do/case-studies/beccas-story/

http://www.charityinsight.com/news/communications/big-societys-big-mouth-launches-new-infographic_28_03_2011

Caveats - presentation / simplification, trustworthy data, privacy

http://v1shal.com/content/25-cartoons-give-current-big-data-hype-perspective/

Do I have to be an expert?

• Help through Building Enterprise• Tools are available• Placement opportunities• Working regionally/smarter – partnerships

for data / smart cities

Will open data save me money?• A new service may provide revenue if it is useful, perhaps as an app.• Creating a data service where different data sets are combined and

API subscription given (this could include your opening up your own data – note as long as you provide your data in an openly available format alongside, this is fine)

• It may save you money. For instance, opening up your own data can save you money in improving your own process efficiencies

• Demonstrating impact to your funders• Demonstrating need to your funders

About

Open Data : Tim's Blog

Open Knowledge Foundation's Open Data Series

Part 1 Defining Open Data - Oct 2013Part 2 Exploring Open and the Open Definition - Oct 2013

Other

Nominet Trust Charity Open Data Days - What is open data anyway

Open data a means to an end not an end in itself - OKN

Open Data Nottingham

ODN Website

Examples of Use

ODN Forum

Other projects

IER - Research project - LMI for All: Developing a careers LMI data tool

Better Living through Information: Big Data and Urban Systems | Planetizen

United Kingdom | Open Government Partnership

Sources and toolsData UnityThe LMI4All APILayers - Google Maps JavaScript API v3 — Google DevelopersNoSQL Data Modeling Techniques « Highly Scalable BlogEasyOpenDatarecipe:start – Open Data Cook BookNo more joining the dots - JISC infoNet

Open data and 3rd sectorData Unity will be running Social Organisation sessions in Birmingham in November 2013 Live Q&A: Open data for charities, Tuesday 22 May | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian ProfessionalHow charities can start using open data | Third Sector Guest Bloggers | Third Sector blogsMake It Local - NestaIntroducing.....Data Unity | Social EnterpriseMore accessible and transparent public data for business growth | News | BISOpenCharitiesHow Open Data is changing the world (Guardian July 2013)

Get involved

• Commission a Research Placement• Attend an Open Data Masterclass• Participate in our programme of events• Join the Building Enterprise Community

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Thank You

Kirstie Coolin, University of Nottingham