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Covid-19
- Ben Snaith
- Deborah Yates
- Jeni Tennison
- Olivier Thereaux
We’re helping you to make sense of publishing and accessing data during Covid-19, with free tools, guides, explainers, research and opinion pieces.

Latest

Blog 20/01/2021
Exploring how new data access initiatives approach data landscaping
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Josh D'Addario
We have been exploring how new data access initiatives develop the data infrastructure they need to tackle a specific challenge, as part of our ongoing research project ‘Data infrastructure for common challenges’
Blog, Reports 20/01/2021
Infrastructure for common challenges [report]
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Elea Himmelsbach
- Flor Serale
- James Maddison
- Josh D'Addario
In this report, we summarise our initial user needs research on data access initiatives, sharing insights into the challenges these initiatives encounter and how design tools can help them build the data infrastructure they need to be successful
Blog 18/01/2021
Data literacy: what is it and how do we address it at the ODI?
- Skills and literacy
- Dr Dave Tarrant
We outline what data skills and literacy are, and explore why teaching people how to code or to draw a graph in Excel doesn’t provide the critical thinking skills needed to critique the collection, use and sharing (or lack of sharing) of data
Blog, Podcast 15/01/2021
R&D Podcast: Making data institutions financially sustainable
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
Jo Kingston is joined by ODI team members Sonia Duarte, Ben Snaith and Joe Massey to discuss the tools and resources that are being developed to help data institutions become financially sustainable
Blog, Reports 15/01/2021
Data skills and knowledge in the engineering sector [report]
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
- Skills and literacy
- Deborah Yates
- James Maddison
- Mahad Alassow
This report explores the level of data skills and knowledge currently in the engineering sector, and what improvements are required
Blog, Tender opportunities 11/01/2021
Call for proposals: Data analysis support for data institutions census
- Data publishing and use
Help the ODI conduct a review/census of the current and future landscape of data institutions and develop a first iteration of a register of these institutions in the UK
Blog, News 11/01/2021
The ODI's response to Ofcom's consultation on Open Communications
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Innovation
- Retail and consumer
- Josh D'Addario
Here’s our response to Ofcom’s consultation on Open Communications
Blog, Case study, Case study [Luminate] 08/01/2021
Case study: Collaborative data maintenance
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Peer networks
- Science and research
- Skills and literacy
- Rachel Wilson
Find out about our R&D project exploring best-practice approaches to collaborative data maintenance
Blog, Reports 05/01/2021
Exploring the Covid-19 symptom tracking ecosystem [report]
- Covid-19
- Data infrastructure
- James Maddison
- Jeni Tennison
- Olivier Thereaux
This report looks at the ecosystem of symptom trackers to understand how they operate and cooperate, and what data flows they enabled.
Videos 05/01/2021
Video: Connecting data literacy to business strategy
- Skills and literacy
- Di Mayze
- Stuart Coleman
- Volker Buscher
Data skills trailblazers Volker Buscher, Di Mayze and Stuart Coleman, explore what data literacy means to society, the journey we all need to take to grow our data skills and how data capability can influence business strategy.