For anyone looking for a warm space in the UK this winter, our warm space search engine includes over 10,000 warm spaces from over 100 different directories: warm.open-innovations.org/find #WarmSpace #CostOfLiving #FuelPoverty

We have taken our constituency hex maps & created a view that showed a constituency with every dataset - a dashboard for every constituency - so you can compare and contrast. #Free for all to use - just give us an accreditation :) open-innovations.org/blog/2025-06...

If you've been following our work for a while you'll know that there are some topics we get very animated about. One of those is buses. As there is not an official archive of BODS data - we thought we would build one ourselves - see the results here open-innovations.org/blog/2025-07...

The lovely people at @open-innovations.org have plotted OpenBenches data onto UK Parliament Constituencies. constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/socie...

Inspired by @owenboswarva.bsky.social here is a web viz of Houses sold that were over £1.5M each year by @open-innovations.org constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/econo...

Full of tips, tools and updates - our summer newsletter is a short read and it might help you to shortcut a project. #Buses #Bins #Culture #HexMaps #DataLibrary open-innovations.org/blog/2025-08...

Check out the latest updates to our #Constituency Hex Maps website using Open Data. Compare your constituency to others, are there any areas outperforming others? constituencies.open-innovations.org

We launched a project to create a hex map of UK wards, the aim to arrange 8,396 wards by local authority. At the end of last week we finally arranged the last hexagon; the map is now complete. Behold! #HexMaps #OpenData open-innovations.org/blog/2025-04...

We have mapped the latest Ofsted inspection data - Where are the most outstanding schools? Are they in your constituency? Is any region outperforming the rest of the country? Answers here ... constituencies.open-innovations.org

Our data visualisation of Friends of the Earth and University of Leeds data shows how regional #Bus services outside of London have declined :( constituencies.open-innovations.org #Buses #Transport #Data

We were invited by the RAC Foundation @racfoundation to talk about our latest innovation work on tracking the buses - you can read about it here and find out what we hope to do next. #Buses #Transport open-innovations.org/blog/2025-05...

Median house prices by UK Consituency over the last 12 months. constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/econo...

We have taken the latest ONS labour market stats to map unemployment by constituency. #Unemployment constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/econo...

We are becoming to go to space for mapping UK Constituency data. In May we have visualised data sets on #Health #Transport #Unemployment #Housing and more - how is your constituency performing? #Constituencies constituencies.open-innovations.org

We've created a hex cartogram showing the number of NHS (or equivalent) dentists by constituency: constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/healt... Most NHS dentists: Cities of London and Westminster (36) Fewest NHS dentists: Stoke-on-Trent South, South Northamptonshire, and South Norfolk (5)

@open-innovations.org doing stuff, being #radicallyoen and making a difference 👊🏼✊🏼👍🏼 open-innovations.org/blog/2025-04...

Check out our spring newsletter to see our updates on #Economy #Transport #Constituencies #DataLibrary open-innovations.org/blog/2025-04...

We've updated our UK councils homepage emissions rankings for April. See the best/worst councils: open-innovations.github.io/council-webs...

Check this from @open-innovations.org open-innovations.org/blog/2025-04... The top 5 constituencies are: Blackpool South (75) Scarborough and Whitby (57) Clacton (52) Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley (46) Normanton and Hemsworth (43) and Herne Bay and Sandwich (43)

If you have found our work on mapping open data on UK constituencies interesting and relevant - here is how we did it open-innovations.org/blog/2025-04...

If you liked our #fish&chips map - you can find out how we made it here. open-innovations.org/blog/2025-04...

You'll need an ATM to pay for the pub & the fish & chips so we've mapped those for you too :) constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/econo...

Post offices by constituency - up to date March 2025. constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/socie...

Where are all the #pubs? Using OpenStreetMaps data- we have plotted them on our HexMaps - the top 3 cities for pubs are- 1. London & Westminster 2. Liverpool Riverside 3. Bristol Central constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/socie...

Using #HexMaps we visualise lots of open data sets about #Society #Economy #Transport #Government #Environment which show interesting patterns across the country. Take a look and let us know what you think :) constituencies.open-innovations.org

Important work by @OpenInnovates - number of fish & chip shops by constituency (as classified as such on Open Street Map). Top three, 1/ Blackpool South 2/ Boston and Skegness 3/ Bridlington and the Wolds constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/socie...

Which UK constituency has the most fish and chip shops? constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/socie... ^SL #HexMap #Cartogram

How clean is our coast ? We have mapped data from the Environment Agency by parliamentary constituency to show every storm overflow event reported. constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/envir...

constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/trans... The relative underperformance of North England’s economy is a mystery…..

What do we know about rail cancellations across the UK? Using #OpenData we have mapped rail cancellations by UK constituency - there is a North Vs South pattern :( constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/trans...

Power of Local - the results are in- our initial analysis of our research into local vs central government approaches is available to read now @LGAcomms open-innovations.org/blog/2025-03...

We @open-innovations.org have loads of examples from all over Europe where high quality data infrastructure is created and used. Just this week we had a miserable call with DfT where it was clear that the UK just doesn’t want to build anything - so depressing.

Could we make our own very basic CSV viewer/editor using a lot fewer resources? The simple answer is: yes! You can use it here for free :) open-innovations.org/blog/2025-03...

📢 Help us help the Local Government Association Do you have examples of: ✅ Local delivery making a real difference? ✅ Centralised approaches that have fallen short? ✅ Instances where centralisation has worked well? If its a yes - please fill out this form open-innovations.org/form/id/the-...

Do you believe in your region? Do you have any examples of local delivery working better than national? Then please spare a couple of minutes to get in touch or answer our survey. #PowerOfLocal open-innovations.org/form/id/the-...

We strongly believe in working openly on the web - which is why our annual review of is available on our website - it highlights our impact & shares work that others can use #RadicallyOpen open-innovations.org/services/spo...

Competition between places is a good thing: One place succeeding doesn’t mean another place has to fail. With centralisation, places can feel like they don’t have the autonomy to succeed on their own terms. Complete our survey to help #PowerOfLocal open-innovations.org/form/id/the-...

A thought? - Central government doesn’t necessarily see the impact of decisions they make locally. Local govt can be directly accountable for their decisions. Get involved with our work with the Local Government Association and share examples or insight. open-innovations.org/projects/lga...

Thought? -In a centralised system, where places are competing for a share of the same pot of funding, what a place needs may not necessarily be aligned with what will win funding. What do you think - get involved with our @LGAcomms project here open-innovations.org/projects/lga...

Got a minute to spare ? help us to help @LGAcomms to use data to showcase the notion that local knowledge creates better outcomes by highlighting the effectiveness of locally-led initiatives. Read more and join in here. #poweroflocal #LocalGovernment local.gov.uk/about/news/p...

Tracking the Buses in England by @open-innovations.org open-innovations.org/blog/2025-01... We've got data for everywhere -2 weeks in September 2024- but the tool only works for The North West and Yorkshire & The Humber - hit us up if you want to do more with this data, infrastructure & tools.

Help us and the Local Government Association work openly to find examples of where local government works better than centralised approaches. Read our launch blog to find out more and join in. #PowerOfLocal open-innovations.org/blog/2025-01...

The LGA are working with @open-innovations.org to find examples of where decentralised approaches have worked better than centralised approaches to policy and delivery (and vice versa). More info here 👇

Our hex cartogram of UK wards is slowly progressing. We've now arranged the East Midlands. If you are from the East Midlands and don't like how we've arranged wards within local authorities, you can edit the layout and send us an update open-innovations.org/projects/hex... ^SL

Blog post: Tracking the buses open-innovations.org/blog/2025-01... We've collected live location data using the Bus Open Data Service. Then we've created a tool to compare the real bus journeys against timetabled journey times. #buses #BusOpenData

Next week @tomforth.co.uk & I working with the @open-innovations.org team,will start an #OpenInnovation project with @The LGA, looking at how Government can use the powwer of our great Local Government Institutuions, to do Distributed and Develoved Delivery. Watch this space 👍👊✊

We've arranged a hex map of wards for Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, the north and south west of England. If you feel like lending a hand for the rest of England we'd appreciate the help github.com/open-innovat... The layout has an open licence and individual LADs could be extracted easily.

@codethecity.bsky.social This is our attempt to make a hex layout of wards in Scotland: open-innovations.org/projects/hex... What do you think? Notes on the UK-wide hex layout at github.com/open-innovat... ^SL

Bristolians, what do you think of our hex layout of Bristol's wards? If you don't like what we've done we'd encourage you to rearrange hexes using the links from github.com/open-innovat..., save the output, and update the file in the repository.

A big thank you to @bradford2025 for hosting us today as we near the end of our On Tour year in 2024. We are working on their data dashboard and open data strategy so watch this space as it evolves. data.bradford2025.co.uk/strategy/