In November we asked people who had completed an assessment for some details on the impact it had had on their organisation. Wondering why you should take a data maturity assessment? Here are three reasons based on the findings of that report.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the winners of the prize draw we organised to thank people for taking part in our Data Maturity Assessment user survey.
Read MoreWe are very excited to announce three outstanding people have joined Data Orchard’s Board: Edafe Onerhime, Mark Sellors, and Suraj Vagdama.
Read MoreJamie Whyte’s published some R code which takes some input data and turns it into a sound file. I have experimented with forcing the data onto musical scales and creating MIDI files with the data.
Read MoreWhen Lockdown 2 was announced but before it came in, we saw a spike in Herefordians visiting Retail and Recreation sites in the county. This was in-line with behaviour seen in other parts of England.
Read MoreFollowing the success of the inaugural #Data4Good conference we led in 2018, more than 20 social sector support organisations and charities are coming together to host #Data4GoodFest on 10th – 12th May 2021.
Read MoreToday we have launched a survey of the people who have used our data maturity tool. We want to understand what difference (if any) the data maturity assessment made in their organisation. The results will help us to understand the impact we are having on the sector as well as guiding us as we create new versions of the tool.
Read MoreIn Part 2 of this blog, we cover four lessons we learned through the process of researching, designing, and testing our data maturity assessment tool.
Read MoreYesterday we at Data Orchard CIC celebrated our 7th birthday with a (Zoom enabled) birthday party. We're grateful to all those who came to celebrate with us. Alongside the dancefloor, the craft room and the networking in various breakout rooms our co-Chief Executives took a few moments to reflect on the past 7 years and to talk about where we are going next.
Read MoreVisits to restaurants, cafes, shopping centres and other “retail and recreation sites” returned to pre-lockdown levels for the first time last week according to our analysis of Google Mobility Data.
Read MoreWe’ve been researching how social sector organizations leverage their data since 2015. Here’s some of what we’ve learned, and how it led us to create our Data maturity assessment tool. Part 1.
Read MoreIn 1821 mine owners across the Dawley coalfields (in what is now Telford, Shropshire) agreed to collectively reduce miners’ pay. Local papers reported it as Shropshire’s own Peterloo “Cinderloo” but over the ensuring decades the incident has been largely forgotten. A Telford based community group aims to bring this incident back to life for local people. They asked us to help them with some web mapping. Following an initial conversation we introduced them to two web-mapping tools.
Read MoreWe’re looking for new board members to help us on our mission. Board member post are unpaid but the rewards are great.
Read MoreTwo thousand young people from Herefordshire will enter the labour market this summer. The economic prospects that face them are worrying.
Read MoreWe’ve been investigating what additional datasets might help strengthen our collective understanding of what is happening in the economy of Herefordshire.
Read MoreWe’re proud to be full partners in the Mapio Cymru project for 2020-21
Read MoreWe’ve been thinking about how we can take our real world workshops online. This week we did it for real. This is what we learned.
Read MoreA few people have contacted me to ask for any tips on home working because I’ve worked mostly or entirely from home for about 12 years now.
Read MoreWe’ve been busy developing a customisable version of our data maturity tool. Can you spare half an hour to be part of our user research?
Read MoreWe’re working with Data Cymru to make it easy for public services in Wales to build a data culture
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