This document discusses using open data to evidence impact and tell organizational stories. It provides examples of how social enterprises can use open data to improve services, write funding proposals, and demonstrate success. Open data is defined as data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed. The document lists sources of open data and tools for working with it. It also addresses concerns around data presentation and privacy, and emphasizes partnerships and training opportunities for working with open data.

1. Building Enterprise
Open Data
@buildSocialEnt

2. Evidencing impact: using data
and telling your story

4. What do you use data for?
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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
More?

5. 1. Impact and data
“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

6. 2. Open 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

7. 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

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

9. What sort of data is available?
The Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/

10. Nottingham data

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

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

13. Datablog from the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/data
Complete list of all datasets
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2013/jan/14/all-our-datasets-index

14. Open Data Bake Off

15. What/Why/Where?
What do you want to
know?
show?
What changed?
What is possible
that wasn’t
before?
http://epicgraphic.com/data-cake/

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

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

18. 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.
http://astoat.no-ip.org/ - from Open Data Nottingham
http://www.opendatanottingham.org.uk/gallery.aspx

19. Rights of Way – Rowmaps, Produced by Barry Cornelius
Using Ordnance Survey, OpenStreetMap, Google or Bing.
Produced by Barry Cornelius
http://www.rowmaps.com using from Open Data Nottingham
http://www.opendatanottingham.org.uk/gallery.aspx

20. Nottingham Insight
Incredibly detailed interactive map allowing you to add layers of different information
http://info.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/insightmapping

21. What would you want to use it for?
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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

22. 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?

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

24. InfoGraphic example – Star Trek Timeline
http://www.space.com/12858-star-trek-timeline-science-fiction-infographic.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Star_Trek

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

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

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

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

30. Caveats - presentation / simplification, trustworthy data, privacy
http://v1shal.com/content/25-cartoons-give-current-big-data-hype-perspective/

31. Do I have to be an expert?
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Help through Building Enterprise
Tools are available
Placement opportunities
Working regionally/smarter – partnerships
for data / smart cities

32. Will open data save me money?
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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

33. About
Open Data : Tim's Blog
Open Knowledge Foundation's Open Data Series
Part 1 Defining Open Data - Oct 2013
Part 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
Sources and tools
Data Unity
The LMI4All API
Layers - Google Maps JavaScript API v3 — Google Developers
NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques « Highly Scalable Blog
EasyOpenData
recipe:start – Open Data Cook Book
No more joining the dots - JISC infoNet
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
Open data and 3rd sector
Data 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 Professional
How charities can start using open data | Third Sector Guest Bloggers | Third Sector blogs
Make It Local - Nesta
Introducing.....Data Unity | Social Enterprise
More accessible and transparent public data for business growth | News | BIS
OpenCharities
How Open Data is changing the world (Guardian July 2013)

34. Get involved
• Commission a Research Placement
• Attend an Open Data Masterclass
• Participate in our programme of events
• Join the Building Enterprise Community
@buildSocialEnt

35. Thank You
Kirstie Coolin, University of Nottingham