Owen Boswarva
@owenboswarva
A mix of stuff: mainly #opendata, #dataprotection, #geospatial, #datapolicy, #ddj, #genAI, and #biodiversity. Also at @datadaptive and @correlatedrisk. He/him.
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Alasdair Rae
Maps, stats, data, cities, density, elections, gifs, geo + QGIS training with Map Academy - founder of Automatic Knowledge
Tom Forth
CTO and co-Founder @TheDataCity. Head of Data @OpenInnovates || Runs @imactivate. No profile pic, location, name, and bio? I probably won't see your tweet.
Matt Jukes
Bristolian | Product person | Comic book collector | Street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50.
Giuseppe Sollazzo
Deputy Director, Data Products & Services @DWPgovuk · Writes @QofSollazzo · G1WNZ on ham radio
Tom Loosemore
Partner at @PublicDigitalHQ, co-founder @GDSteam, ex-@BBC I'm not posting on Twitter any more. I'm on Bluesky @tomski.com
Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks ft.com/content/cdda3b… #waterindustry #sewagescandal #geospatial #FOI (presumably EIRs really)
Population estimates for Community Support Partnerships and Police Force Areas in England and Wales, mid-2021 and mid-2022 ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati… ad hoc #opendata release from Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Includes estimates by single year of age and sex, based on best-fit allocation of Output Areas.
Tory candidate dropped after his name appears on leaked 2009 BNP members list mirror.co.uk/news/politics/… by Dave Burke
Two people were charged under DPA for releasing the list … and one was fined: £200 +£100 costs.
The list remains online wikileaks.org/wiki/British_N… #dataprotection
New Notts data and local insight website is launched nottinghamshire.gov.uk/newsroom/news/… from Nottinghamshire County Council
Nottinghamshire Observatory observatory.nottinghamshire.gov.uk
'Developed by ESRI' – but local to me, so I'm grudgingly tweeting it.
All BI/dashboard stuff, but based on #opendata from Office for National Statistics (ONS) et al.
Job – Deputy Data Protection Officer at Homes England, choice of various locations civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j… #UKhousing #dataprotection
European police chiefs call for end-to-end encryption roll out to include public protection measures nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/european-… from National Crime Agency (NCA) #E2EE #encryption #surveillance
'Solutions need to be found' / 'solutions do exist'. Which is it? twitter.com/NCA_UK/status/…
Letter from DSIT minister Jonathan Camrose with responses following from the first three days of Lords debate on the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill data.parliament.uk/DepositedPaper… #DPDIBill #dataprotection
Other Bill docs incl Hansard transcripts bills.parliament.uk/bills/3430/pub…
The Smart Data Roadmap: action the government is taking in 2024 to 2025 gov.uk/government/pub… from Department for Business and Trade #DPDIBill #dataeconomy
#Smartdata is sharing of customer data, but the scope includes plans to use the same powers to mandate #opendata i.e. the #roadfuels scheme.
Ad-hoc House Price Statistics for Small Areas (HPSSA) data for Eng/Wales, 1995-2023 from Office for National Statistics (ONS):
● sales and median price paid by property type and 2010 constituency ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
● sales by property type and LSOA ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
#UKhousing #proptech #opendata
Short debate on 'Personal Data' in the Commons yesterday hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-0… #DPDIBill #dataprotection
Mostly softball questions.
Recent allegations about the Tories selling off their members' data, which the data minister prudently hasn't seen: theguardian.com/politics/2024/…
