Les Carr, also from the University of Southampton, presented his work on Current Data Sharing Practices<\/a>, examining how people communicate data over the web and social media.<\/p>\n Julie Freeman and Hannah Redler introduced the ODI’s Data as Culture project<\/a>, which aims to engage diverse audiences with artists and works that use data as an art material, and gave us a tour of the LMAO Exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ingrid Koehler, from the Local Government Information Unit<\/a>, presented her work on Council Data: the Personal and the Political<\/a>, and how data can be used to fill in the gaps in narrative in local elections and domiciliary care.<\/p>\n Tony Hirst, “open public data and data journalism tinkerer” and Michael Smethurst from the Parliamentary Digital Service<\/a> gave us a talk on Reproducible Research, looking at using Binder to explore parliamentary data<\/a>.<\/p>\n Maeve McClenaghan from The Bureau Local<\/a> spoke about how The Bureau uses local networks of journalists<\/a>, data technicians and civic activists to draw together data to build a national picture, and then re-distribute the story locally, with local context.<\/p>\n Shauna Concannon from the University of York presented a talk on Perspective Media: Personalised Video Storytelling for Data Engagement<\/a>, and how personalised multimedia can be used to present data in a novel and engaging form.<\/p>\n Laura K\u00f6sten and Emilia Kacprzak, two PhD students at the University of Southampton, based at the ODI, took us through some of the findings of WDAqua<\/a>, a project examining how questions can be answered using web data.<\/p>\n Ian Makgill, from Spend Network<\/a> (and OpenOpps<\/a>) spoke about the recent collapse of Carillion<\/a>, and why making data about public procurement transparent is increasingly important.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/datastories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/245\/2018\/02\/DUPw3l5WkAEU95M-1.jpg?resize=300%2C181\")
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