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SUMMARY:LARIA Webinar 3
DESCRIPTION:Session 1: Adopting a blended data approach to weather the storm of change\nAt a time where we’re seeing increases in our daily cost of living which affects multiple community group as well as decreases in available budget to provide local services\, it is critical for the public sector to assess the impact of change faced by its residents. Whether you’re focusing on challenges such as child poverty\, fuel poverty or housing affordability\, it is essential to be able to access and use detailed up-to-date data to evidence decision-making. This session will examine ways in which public sector organisations can adopt a blended data approach to predict likely future change and assess the impact on communities in order to weather the storm of change.\nStewart Eldridge\, Associate Partner – Communities & Government\nEd Sewell\, Partner – Customer Insight\nVal Kirillovs\, Principal Consultant – Solutions Design\nPatrick Tate\, Director – Location Intelligence (live demo)\nCACI \nSession 2: Harnessing Council Data to Understand Unmet Need in West Lothian Council\nThere’s a lot of data out there that tells us about the places and people who are getting the support they need\, but how do we identify and find those who are missing out? In this session we will cover a project undertaken by the Improvement Service and West Lothian Council to understand and identify this unmet need. The session will describe the background to the project\, how data has been used to identify the areas of interest\, how West Lothian have used the findings to inform interventions\, and next steps for building on and improving this approach. The approach is easily replicable and should give participants some ideas about how they could use their own data in a similar way.\nNick Cassidy\, Research Manager\, Improvement Service \nWebinars are available free of charge to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Corporate Members. For Associate and Non Members \, please sign up to membership to access the webinars. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here. \nSign in to register: \n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-webinar-3-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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SUMMARY:LARIA Webinar 2
DESCRIPTION:Session 1: Using qualitative research and partnership working to tackle fuel poverty\nQualitative researchers in Wirral Council’s Public Health team have been using ethnography and interviewing to see and hear how residents are affected by fuel poverty\, including those that may be hidden from the national statistics on fuel poverty. Hear how the insights have been used to shape a partnership approach to tackling fuel poverty in the borough.\nAbi Yeates\, Qualitative Insights Researcher – Public Health\, Wirral Council \nSession 2: Tackling the Digital Divide: The Digital Exclusion Risk Mapping Tool\nDigital inclusion is essential for modern living and ensuring health and wellbeing equality.\nTo address concerns about digital exclusion in Essex\, ECC’s Data and Analytics team explored data and research on infrastructure\, affordability\, and digital literacy and created an engaging visual to illustrate the county’s digital divide. In this session ECC will share how they created the Digital Inclusion Mapping Tool\, an interactive dashboard available through Essex Open Data\, which pinpoints at-risk populations at the LSOA level\, and how the tool is enabling ECC to work with partner organisations to inform the design and delivery of inclusive local services.\nMelody Cremer\, Analyst & Amos Turn\, Data Science Fellow\, Essex County Council \nSession 3: Unlocking the power of address data: A data-driven infographic report for benchmarking and transformation\nWe developed an innovative method to create a bespoke\, data-driven infographics report for each of the 318 planning authorities in England and Wales. The target audience was senior local government leaders (Chief Execs\, Directors\, Heads of Digital Services and Transformation).\nThe aim of the report was to highlight in a non-technical\, visual way how effectively their authority was utilising address data and its Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) across multiple departments.\nThis was achieved through a range of techniques:\n\n – Benchmarking to quantify the level of UPRN integration\n – A summary page highlighting current progress and trend against the national average.\n – A service-level view indicating where attention is needed most.\n – Creation of an “integration infographic” depicting the current state.\n – Assignment of a “UPRN Integration maturity level” and ways to improve\n – Key action points to improve\n\nThe reports have been hugely successful in supporting local authority officers responsible for creating and maintain their address data (Address Custodians) and engaging senior leadership\, building their awareness of address data and critically gaining their buy-in and support of it. The project had no budget and was achieved by using existing tools and staff time alone.\nJoin Luke Studden\, Data Integration Lead at GeoPlace where he will explain in depth the methodology of how we created the reports and why.\nLuke Studden\, Data Integration Manager\, GeoPlace \nWebinars are available free of charge to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Corporate Members. For Associate and Non Members \, please sign up to membership to access the webinars. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here. \nSign in to register: \n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-webinar-2-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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SUMMARY:LARIA One Day Conference and Awards\, Tuesday 26 November 2024
DESCRIPTION:LARIA One Day Conference & Awards\, Tuesday 26 November 2024 \n\n\nWe are not alone: artificial intelligence and data science – friend or foe \nArtificial intelligence (AI) is the phrase of the moment. Whether it is through an online chatbot\, social media or a smart speaker\, AI is in our everyday lives. It could drive significant efficiencies in many sectors or could make employees obsolete. It could solve the world’s problems or create a dystopian world where we are slaves to the machines. \nAI is already being used by organisations in local areas to some degree. And those organisations are looking to their local area research and intelligence teams to inform and deliver that work. \nAdded to this\, the opportunities presented by data science techniques\, such as machine learning and predictive analytics\, can underpin strategic and operational decision-making. Again\, local area research and intelligence teams can be front and centre of development and implementation. \nOur events aim to provide delegates with the ideas\, tools\, and techniques for delivering improved outcomes for the public based on robust data\, evidence\, and research. This year\, our conference is themed around AI and data science.  Register today! \n\n\n\nDownload Conference Programme \n\n\nTickets are priced at £75.00 for LARIA Members (Full Individual\, Additional Corporate\, Corporate and Full Corporate Members) and £95.00 for non-members and LARIA Associate Members. If you would like to join LARIA to benefit from the member rates\, you can find information on the different memberships available on the website: LARIA Membership benefits \nIf you are a LARIA Member please sign-in below to register for the Member ticket. If you can’t remember your password click on the ‘request password’ link after you have clicked on ‘sign-in’ to request a temporary password. \n\n\n\nRegistration is now open!\n\n\n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-one-day-conference-and-awards-tuesday-26-november-2024/
LOCATION:Local Government Association\, Local Government House\, Smith Square\, London\, SW1P 3HZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Recent
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SUMMARY:LARIA Webinar 2024: Developing skills for AI: how and why
DESCRIPTION:Developing skills for AI: how and why\nThis session will provide delegates with inspiration for how their councils can take practical steps to develop data science skills to take advantage of the opportunities that AI presents. Attendees will also hear from two councils who will give examples of AI projects that showcase the benefits of investing in these skills. \nIn this session\, hear from Anna Gibson\, Senior Data Analyst at Hackney Council\, about her experience participating in a level 7 AI apprenticeship. Anna will explain how she has put the skills she developed to practical use in an exciting project that aimed to predict which council-managed properties and associated households were most at risk of damp and mould\, to help prioritise proactive interventions for the most vulnerable of residents. \nSimone Thomas\, Senior Manager for Strategic Data Systems at Cheshire West and Chester Council will describe the Data Hive skills development programme the council has implemented to build data culture and skills across the organisation. Simone will also tell us how her Data Science and Engineering team is developing a predictive modelling project that focuses on SEND pupils to help support sufficiency planning and budget forecasting. \nFinally\, Kate Cooper will outline the support available from the LGA to help councils develop data skills and build capacity around AI\, as well as the opportunities available to participate in networks to share learning and build relationships with other councils also working in this area\nAnna Gibson\, Senior Data Analyst\, Hackney Council\, Simone Thomas\, Senior Manager for Strategic Data Systems\, Cheshire West and Chester Council\nChaired by Kate Cooper\, Programme Manager – Data and Transparency programme\, Local Government Association \nWebinars are available to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Contact members only. If you are not currently a member\, please sign up to membership to access the webinars. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here. \nSign in to register: \n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-webinar-2024-developing-skills-for-ai-how-and-why/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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SUMMARY:LARIA Webinar 2024: AI: What is it? Why is it? Where is it?
DESCRIPTION:AI: What is it? Why is it? Where is it?\nThe world is awash with references to AI\, despite it not being a new practice. The recent advancements and easy accessibility of AI tools mean it’s the buzzword of the moment. But\, for many of us there are still many foundational questions when it comes to AI – what is it? why is it? And where is it? \nIn this session CACI’s AI and Data Science experts Sue MacLure\, Director of Data and AI Ethics\, and Edward Sewell\, Data Strategy Partner will share the journey we’ve been on at CACI as we adopted advanced AI techniques to enhance our data insights products\, as well as the use of generative AI in the interpretation and application of those data insight products – bringing to life the what\, why and where of AI at CACI. \nThey will also dive into the ethical and legislative challenges of adopting AI techniques to undertake data insight practices\, and how we’ve addressed them – sharing our key learnings with you\, so your data scientists can act with integrity\, always considering the ethical side of AI in their day-to-day work. \nFinally\, we’ll bring this all to life with some real-life use cases of how organisations are adopting these AI driven tools to improve consumer and resident experiences. \nWe’re confident you’ll walk away with:\n• Insights on how you can embrace the AI & Data Science opportunity for your organisation.\n• A deeper understanding of the key ethical and legislative considerations that all organisations seeking to adopt AI should be aware of and considering.\n• A clearer view of the variety and potential of ways in which data science and AI can drive tangible benefits to organisations across the Public and Commercial sectors both now and in the future.\nEd Sewell\, Partner – Data Strategy & Sue MacLure\, Director of Data\, CACI \nWebinars are available to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Contact members only. If you are not currently a member\, please sign up to membership to access the webinars. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here. \nSign in to register: \n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-webinar-2024-ai-what-is-it-why-is-it-where-is-it/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230329T110000
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SUMMARY:LARIA Webinar Series 2023: Webinar 5
DESCRIPTION:Developing Data Driven Insights: The Energy Crisis and Census 2021\nThe Hounslow Data Hub enables residents\, community groups and council staff to access data about the borough all in one place. We are committed to turning data into insight and intelligence that supports decision makers. The Hounslow Data Hub helps us do this by bringing internal and external data about the borough into a single easily accessible location and allowing users to look at data in a range of ways. \nThis session will focus on illustrating how data has helped us to provide an understanding of the needs of Hounslow’s population and how services have used this insight for a more targeted approach. Firstly\, the session will cover how using Census 2021 data we ensure that more residents are fully represented\, where they may not have been before\, and how it can support the targeting of services. Following on from this\, the session will look at how various datasets such as Energy Performance and CACI income data were combined to provide data-rich insights which guided the London Borough of Hounslow’s work to address the energy crisis challenge within the borough\, along with wider winter planning.\nJoin this session to find out more about the Hounslow Data Hub and what it has to offer.\nSimon Hayes and Leila Akyel\, Information Analysts\, London Borough of Hounslow \nUsing Data to Reach Net-Zero: Monitoring Local Authority Emissions\nManchester City Council declared a climate emergency in July 2019 and developed the five-year Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) setting out its plans to respond to the climate emergency and become a net-zero organisation by 2038. Since then\, there has been more discussion on whether this target should be brought forward due to the severity of the situation to the year 2030. The CCAP contains 48 individual actions in 5 workstreams\, including buildings and energy\, travel and transport\, reducing consumption-based emissions and influencing suppliers\, adaptation and carbon sequestration and influencing behaviour and being a catalyst for change. The work the Performance\, Research and Intelligence (PRI) department does with the Zero Carbon team to monitor emissions has a key role in determining whether MCC is on target to becoming net-zero as well as impacting on decision making which will affect the future policy trajectory of the local authority. The presentation will go into some detail in terms of carbon reporting\, challenges we face in terms of data including quality\, quantity\, and conversion into carbon emissions and how we have worked through these issues.\nEllis Odjidja\, Senior Analyst\, Liam Read\, Analyst\, Sophie Sheil\, Principal Resources & Programme Officer & Sarah Henshall\, Data Assistant\, Manchester City Council \nUsing insights from different data sets to tackle energy poverty\nAdministrative data held by local authorities can give rich insights into the financial resilience of residents. Policy in Practice is helping councils to directly target support to individual properties using the Low Income Family Tracker platform (LIFT).\nLocal authorities have the administrative data\, but can lack the time or resources to pull the relevant insights from within it. By analysing their data\, LIFT gives councils insights on household income including earnings\, benefits\, investments and tenancy types. Using this data\, councils can see at a glance which households may be struggling financially.\nAdding supplemented data to this can produce further\, more specific\, insights. EPC data can be cross-referenced against scheme eligibility criteria to identify households who are eligible for grants and missing out.\nWe will discuss: \n\nHow utilising administrative data can give insights into the least financially resilient households in the area\nHow these insights can help to identify eligible households with targeted take-up campaigns\nHow working with the LIFT platform brings in results quickly by comparison to starting a campaign from scratch\nThe ease in which this work can be replicated by councils\n\nPaul Garlick\, Strategic Client Services Manager\, Policy in Practice with Enfield Council officer \nWebinars are available to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Contact members only. If you are not currently a member\, please sign up to membership to access the webinars. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here. \nSign in to register: \n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-webinar-series-2023-webinar-5/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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DTSTAMP:20260428T153058
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SUMMARY:LARIA Webinar Series 2023: Webinar 4
DESCRIPTION:CLA Placement Demand Modelling – By and For Local Authorities\nAn overview of the LA-led collaborative programme Data to Insight\, and its work to develop free and open demand modelling tools for easy adoption by LAs. Learn about the barriers to collaborative data work in local government\, and two routes we’ve developed to mitigate these. Hear what we’ve learned about the possibilities of CLA placement demand modelling\, and how we work as a collaborative development venue to maximise value for councils from limited funding opportunities.\nAlistair Herbert\, Data to Insight Manager\, Data to Insight\, hosted by East Sussex County Council \nBoost safeguarding through multi agency data sharing\nThe responsibility to safeguard vulnerable people lies with councils and safeguarding partners. Limited data sharing makes it hard to identify people who need support before crisis hits.\nThe Multi Agency Safeguarding Tracker (MAST) is a data driven digital tool developed for Walsall Council that allows information from multiple safeguarding bodies to be easily and securely shared\, matched and anonymised.\nMAST demonstrates that partner organisations across regions can join the dots with data to boost safeguarding.\nWe will discuss: \n\nHow this ground-breaking approach to combining administrative datasets has created a clear view of safeguarding concerns across all partners\nHow new smart approaches to data management has tackled security and data governance challenges\nHow the data is brought to life to help safeguarding teams and frontline staff to improve communication\, liaison and decision making\nHow the MAST tool is designed to be easily replicated by other regions\n\nDeven Ghelani\, CEO & Founder\, with Paul Withers\, Data Protection Officer\, Policy in Practice with Walsall Metropolitan Council \nIdentifying and Visualising Digital Exclusion Risk in Manchester\nThe COVID-19 pandemic brought into stark focus how vital digital access and literacy is to fully participate in society\, and how digital inclusion is a key tool for improving economic and social wellbeing. There is a depth of national research on who is likely to be digitally excluded; organisations such as the Good Things Foundation have identified key demographic features that place an individual at greatest risk. We know who is at risk\, the challenge is to find out where these people are. To mitigate this challenge\, Manchester City Council (building on the work presented by colleagues in Salford) developed a Digital Exclusion Risk Index (DERI) that brought together 16 individual datasets that either directly or indirectly demonstrate levels of digital exclusion across households in the city. In this session we will discuss: \n\nHow collaboration across departments led to the creation of a product that met the needs of residents and colleagues.\nHow to meet the challenges of identifying the most relevant metrics\, that cover the full scope of risk factors\, whilst keeping within the stated aims of a project.\nHow a data product can be put into action and embedded across services.\n\nJennifer Wall\, Senior Analyst Manchester City Council \nWebinars are available to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Contact members only. If you are not currently a member\, please sign up to membership to access the webinars. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here. \nSign in to register: \n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-webinar-series-2023-webinar-4/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230321T110000
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SUMMARY:LARIA Webinar Series 2023: Webinar 3
DESCRIPTION:Using segmentation to understand areas most likely to be affected by the cost-of-Living crisis\nThis session will describe how Manchester City Council used Experian’s MOSAIC segmentation tool at household level to understand which areas of the city were likely to be most affected by the Cost-of-Living crisis and target interventions across a wide spectrum of services. It will also show how the approach taken at area level was applied to GP registered population data in order to help target the allocation of additional NHS funding for alleviating winter pressures to GP practices.\nPaul Holme\, (Head of Performance\, Research and Intelligence\, Manchester City Council); Kasia Noone\, (Performance and Insight Manager\, Manchester City Council); Sandra Aguilera (Performance and Insight Manager\, Manchester City Council); and Neil Bendel (Public Health Specialist (Health Intelligence)\, Manchester City Council) \nCreating an interactive cost of living dashboard for Suffolk\nIn April 2022\, as the impact of increases in the Cost of Living really came to the forefront\, Public Health & Communities\, Suffolk County Council published a Cost of Living profile as part of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.\nAlongside a written Cost of Living report ‘Making ends meet: The cost of living in Suffolk’\, an interactive dashboard was also created using Power BI.\nThe dashboard was developed in order to: \n\nProvide up to date data and information on the Cost of Living for Suffolk County Council\, partner organisations\, and members of the public.\nDeliver an interactive tool to allow users to focus on areas most relevant to them.\nDemonstrate that\, while increases in the cost of living affect everyone\, impact will be greatest for those who are already under financial pressure\, exacerbating inequalities.\nProvide a source of actionable insight to support the system with data and the evidence base needed support project development\, drive change and really make a difference in the community.\n\nThis session will: \n\nProvide a demonstration of Suffolk County Council’s Cost of Living dashboard\nGive an overview of data sources\nExplore opportunities for automation using Power BI\nDiscuss how the data dashboard is used locally\n\nRebecca Allen\, Head of Public Health & Communities Analytics\, Suffolk County Council \nWebinars are available to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Contact members only. If you are not currently a member\, please sign up to membership to access the webinars. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here. \nSign in to register: \n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-webinar-series-2023-webinar-3/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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SUMMARY:LARIA Webinar Series 2023: Webinar 2
DESCRIPTION:Understanding the extent and impact of the cost-of-living crisis on Essex residents\nResearch & Citizen Insight and Data and Analytics colleagues within Essex County Council collated insight to understand the impact of the cost-of-living challenge for residents\, deploying analytics to help us pre-empt the scale of the issue\, targeting our immediate response\, and using research to understand the root causes of cost-of-living pressures. This informed the Council’s six-point plan to deliver £50m support to Essex households and communities – targeting resources to the areas and resident groups who were most in need. This session will take you through the insight informing the six-point plan\, including work around fuel poverty – how this affected households across the County and by District\, how inflation rises are affecting the discretionary income\, how mortgage rate increases impact household discretionary income\, in-depth qualitative research with Essex residents to bring to life their experiences and feelings about coping with the increased cost of living\, emotional wellbeing impact and the impact of the crisis on children’s services and the relationship between referrals and financial hardship\, and foster care forecasts.\nMichele Figg and Emily Brodie\, Intelligence Managers & Poppy Reece\, Senior Researcher\, Essex County Council  \nWebinars are available to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Contact members only. If you are not currently a member\, please sign up to membership to access the webinars. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here. \nSign in to the members area to register: \n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-webinar-series-2023-webinar-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230307T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230307T150000
DTSTAMP:20260428T153058
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SUMMARY:LARIA Webinar Series 2023: Webinar 1
DESCRIPTION:Understanding the Cost-of-Living crisis with data\nAs living costs continue to soar and increasing numbers of people face hardship\, having data that allows us to understand both the current and ongoing impacts of the Cost-of-Living crisis on our communities is essential. Income and segmentation data\, in particular have been widely adopted by public sector organisations to provide a robust and up-to-date picture of the population to evidence decision-making.\nIn this webinar\, we will be joined by our partners CACI who will walk you through the data they produce and how it can be used to inform our response to the current crisis. Key datasets used by CACI to support their analysis include (i) income datasets\, Paycheck\, which provides postcode level estimates of gross household income\, (ii) Paycheck Disposable Income\, which can help users understand the extent to which communities will be affected as disposable income decreases in the face of rising living costs and (iii) their segmentation tools (Acorn\, Household Acorn and Wellbeing Acorn) that help paint a picture of the demographic\, lifestyle\, behavioural and health characteristics of the UK population.\nJames Debenham\, Principal Consultant (Location Intelligence) & Jamie Clark\, Account Manager\, CACI  \nWebinars are available to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Contact members only. If you are not currently a member\, please sign up to membership to access the webinar. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here. \nSign in to register: \n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-webinar-series-2023-webinar-1/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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SUMMARY:LARIA Spring 2022 Webinar 4
DESCRIPTION:Adventures in Digital Ethnography\nThis session aims to cover how three intrepid researchers from Essex County Council’s Research and Citizen Insight Team delivered the Council’s first in-house digital ethnography\, what we learned from the experience and how we shared our newfound knowledge with colleagues. This will equip delegates with the knowledge they too can embark on this adventure and deliver great digital ethnography projects for their organisations too.\nMaresa Beazley\, Senior Researcher & Liz Roberts\, Researcher\, Essex County Council \nCapturing urban mobility through mobile phone data\nThe aim of this session is to introduce delegates to mobile phone data and to provide an understanding of the range of ways in which they might be used by local policy makers. Glasgow City Council and the Urban Big Data Centre have been collaborating on the analysis of these data to meet a range of analytical challenges which the Council and its partners are facing. One of these was in transport planning where the Council was very aware that patterns of movement had changed dramatically as a result of the pandemic and that it therefore needed to bring transport strategies up-to-date. A key requirement was recent evidence on patterns of movement across the city\, rather than having to rely on 2011 Census data. A second was work on city-regional economic recovery. One need was to understand how footfall in city centre and other ‘high street’ locations have changed as a result of the pandemic. The Council also required analysis in support of its policy to promote ‘liveable neighbourhoods’. UBDC brought an understanding of the different forms of mobile phone data and an ability to procure (licence) appropriate datasets. They conducted the basic work to check the data were ‘fit for purpose’ for the needs identified and to develop methods to measure flows\, footfall and other aspects of urban mobility.\nNick Bailey\, Director\, Urban Big Data Centre\, University of Glasgow \nWebinars are available to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Contact members only. If you are not currently a member\, please sign up to membership to access the webinars recordings. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here. \n\n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-spring-2022-webinar-4/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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SUMMARY:LARIA Spring 2022 Webinar 3
DESCRIPTION:Visual Analytics: Targeting Preventative Wellbeing Visits\nJohn will show how Excel and Tableau were used to undertake visual analytics on spatial and demographic data from open public sources\, Acorn geodemographics\, and management information systems. The analysis was used to define a target audience for communications and marketing staff to support the delivery of additional ‘Safe and Well’ visits from the Fire and Rescue service to those who would be most likely to benefit from them.\nJohn Courouble\, Head of Data\, Analytics\, and Visualisation\, Oxfordshire County Council \nImplementing PowerBi: the essentials\nMany organisations are now seeing PowerBI as a potential solution for their data analysis and dissemination needs. Whilst no-one can question the ‘power’ of this tool\, there are practical and financial considerations that you’ll need to think about before embarking on your PowerBI journey.\nIn this session we’ll talk about the essentials for a successful implementation of PowerBI based on our experience and the lessons we learned.\nRichard Palmer\, Chief Operating Officer\, Data Cymru  \nTell Me With My Eyes: Using video for impact and influence\nWe do research with the intention of creating change. Usually\, though\, there’s at least one layer between us as researchers and the change that needs to be made. These layers are made up of decision-makers\, budget-holders\, policymakers and other interested parties who are already invested in the area we’ve been looking at: that’s why we’ve been asked to do the research.\nVideo can be an incredibly powerful tool for influence\, as well as being an excellent means of gathering research data.\nUrban designer Nat Roberton and researcher will talk you through how and why they used video to deliver impactful insights about the experience of navigating Bristol.\nThis talk will give you the inspiration and confidence to build video into your own research deliverables\, letting your participants answer difficult questions for you and helping your decision-makers reach a deep empathy for their users.\nKat Thackray\, Lead consultant (user research and service design)\, Mace & Menter & Nat Roberton\, Bristol City Council \nWebinars are available to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Contact members only. If you are not currently a member\, please sign up to membership to access the webinars recordings. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here. \n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-spring-2022-webinar-3/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220608T110000
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SUMMARY:LARIA Spring 2022 Webinar 2
DESCRIPTION:Giving a voice to survivors of domestic abuse\nThis session will showcase our research with survivors of domestic abuse and how we worked closely with local partners to engage with diverse cohorts. It will also demonstrate the importance of providing choice to participants in terms of ways to share their views. We will also consider the importance of researcher wellbeing\, and the value of being part of a community of practice group with peers in other local authorities.\nPoppy Reece\, Senior Researcher & Maura O’Malley\, Researcher\, Essex County Council \nChanging the culture: exploring research capacity in local government\nLocal government is ideally placed for addressing health inequalities and influencing the health of individuals and communities in England. Yet\, there are very limited research systems that exist within local government to support their ability to create and synthesis the evidence needed for preventative and public health interventions. This session will share the findings of two research studies conducted in neighbouring local authorities in the north of England. Both studies used an Embedded Research approach to data collection. This approach has been used in other work as a mechanism to facilitate understanding of the cultures of local government\nDelegates will learn a range of short\, medium and long term actions that could support them to developing a sustainable research system within their local authority. Thus\, having the potential to impact on the health of residents and reducing health inequalities. The session will highlight implications for local government and how to reconfigure the relationship between research\, evidence and decision-making in public health.\nThe session will also share a summary of the embedded research approach and its potential to provide a boundary spanning role between local government and academic institutions.\nDr Catherine Homer\, Senior Research Fellow\, Sheffield Hallam University & Dr Susan Hampshaw\, Head of Service (Public Health Delivery)\, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council \n\nWebinars are available to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Contact members only. If you are not currently a member\, please sign up to membership to access the webinars  recordings. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here.\n\n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-spring-2022-webinar-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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SUMMARY:LARIA Spring 2022 Webinar 1 - CACI
DESCRIPTION:Tackling the Cost of Living Crisis with data\nThe Cost of Living Crisis is high on the political and media agenda. Local Authorities are on the front-line and need to know the likely scale of the impacts and identify those most likely to need support as a result of the rapid rise in living costs. \nUsing publicly available and widely available commercial data CACI will provide their views on:\n• The extent of the crisis\n• The extent to which consumers are changing\, and planning to change\, their behaviours\n• The demographic groups and local areas most at risk from the crisis based on the above evidence. \nThe session will provide practical advice on how the use of such datasets can enable Local Authorities to monitor\, understand and address the needs arising at a local level.\nPaul Langston\, Associate Partner\, CACI \nWebinars are available to Full Individual Members\, Corporate Members\, Full Corporate Members and Additional Contact members only. If you are not currently a member\, please sign up to membership to access the webinar recordings. For more details on the benefits of membership\, please see here. \n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://www.laria.org.uk/event/laria-spring-2022-webinar-1-caci/
LOCATION:Zoom Meetings
CATEGORIES:Recent,Webinar
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