We’re sure many of you are looking forward to the festive season and waving goodbye (and good riddance) to 2016. Here at DataKind UK, we’d like to take a moment to reflect and appreciate all the good stuff that happened this year.
2016 was all about growth and impact. We doubled our number of staff by welcoming Lauren Smith as our Project & Events Coordinator and grew our brilliant team of Chapter Leaders with Kate Vang, Billy Wong and Gianfranco Cecconi joining Rishi Kumar. We got much smarter at selecting and scoping projects, as well as testing new event formats. We ran one-day DataDives for single projects. We experimented with DataJams - a day of data wrangling to better understand the data at hand. Behind the scenes, we’ve been working in partnership with Data Orchard to survey 200 UK charities and social enterprises, interviewing 12 of them to produce a data maturity framework that will be launched in 2017.
We’re pleased to have partnered on projects with the following organisations over the last year. We also provided light touch advice and support to a further 15 charities and social enterprises.
We’ve had a packed calendar of events from DataDives to DataJams. Find out more below!
FebruaryDataDive: Cafedirect Producers’ Foundation
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AprilMeetup: When the rubber hits the road: |
MayWorkshop: Data Evolution London Workshop Workshop: Data Evolution Hereford Workshop |
JuneMeetup: When good algorithms go bad… DataDive: Shared Assets & the Ecological Land Co-operative blog post here |
AugustDataJam: National Council for Voluntary Organisations Meetup: Data-for-good Summer Social
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SeptemberDataDive: Autumn DataDive
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OctoberMeetup: data+visual DataDive: Marks and Spencer (Internal event for analysts and their charity partners) blog post here |
NovemberDataJam and DataDive: DataDiving into Company Ownership with Global Witness blog post here
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DecemberMeetup: Who owns UK companies?
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