Today I start a new adventure…
It’s my first day @ODIHQ.
Remote
andnewman
@andnew@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Principle Data Specialist at the ODI. Formerly at DefraGovUK. Treasurer at 20th Sheffield Scouts. Geography geek. Husband & dad. Slightly epileptic.
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Joined August 19, 2018
What:
Data & geography
Where:
Sheffield, UK
Why:
Learning, sharing, trusting
How:
Open, collaborative, people focused
This week I am trialling standing working….
A interesting piece in the Sheffield Tribune about Florence Nightingale’s love of statistics and data.
Yippee the sun is setting.
We are now officially on our way towards summertime again.
(Just need to get Jan, Feb, Mar & Apr)
This train has FREE sandwiches.
I am winning at life.
Today we have shared some thoughts on the new UK Sport Strategy and the importance of building a data culture to enable it's delivery. Find out more over on X...
We are consulting widely to inform the design of a sustainable operating model for
OpenActive.
This is a really important piece of work and we'd welcome views from interested stakeholders...
Blog: https://link.medium.com/pNxXkuRbYxb
Survey: https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90541373/Open-Active-Organisation-Design
Yippee sunrise.
Heading to London to run an OpenActive panel session at the first State of Open Conference.
Looking forward to seeing real people at a real conference.
Happy New Year, have a brilliant 2023.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Reading: A concise explainer of the Digital Services Act: and related UK legislation…
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/17/digital-services-act-inside-the-eus-ambitious-bid-to-clean-up-social-media?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I'm now leading the #ODI contribution to #openactiveio.
One of the things I have really enjoyed learning about over the last couple of days is our focus on monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Now you can learn about this over on our blog...
The MarioCart map of London is a little bit inaccurate.
Reading: Sheffield Council transparency inquiry hampered by lack of data - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-63873671