18th December 2014
Since it’s Christmas and we love a good map here at OCSI…
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18th December 2014
Season’s Greetings From all of the OCSI team We hope…
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13th November 2014
OCSI is updating the Indices of Deprivation on behalf of The Department…
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11th November 2014
Last week was Living Wage Week and it’s encouraging to see a…
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4th November 2014
As an organisation helping public & community services tackle social and economic…
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29th October 2014
Last week we were over the moon to find out that OCSI…
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29th October 2014
OCSI and The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) are updating the…
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20th October 2014
Starting a new job is always an exciting time; new office, new…
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20th October 2014
It’s always great when you can start the working week with some…
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7th July 2014
We have been commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government…
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3rd July 2014
New research by Brighton and Hove Community Works shows the high value of…
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19th June 2014
We’ve recently been working on the national evaluation of Children’s Centres together,…
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16th May 2014
The OCSI Living Wage Intern Programme is really important for us as…
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9th May 2014
We’re over the moon to have been selected by the UK Department…
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17th January 2014
The role This is a great opportunity to work on challenging projects…
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20th December 2013
That time of year’s arrived again! We’re signing off for Christmas now…
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10th September 2013
Lately, Brighton has been awash with a strange crowd. Alongside the usual…
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5th September 2013
Our work at OCSI can pretty much be summed up as “good…
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21st June 2013
Being built on Open Data and Open Source tools, we loved the idea of open, participative processes in the workplace.
This is how we turned lessons learnt about “Democratic Workplace” into the OCSI office shuffle.
13th June 2013
Junior data developer, Brighton, three month contract (with possible extension)
12th June 2013
OCSI’s own Tom Smith spoke last week at the Open Data Institute #ODIFridays lunch-time lecture….
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22nd May 2013
Open data might be fuel, but fuel on its own doesn’t get you anywhere. To improve public services you need to translate the raw data material into whatever helps people solve their problems. So, how do we bridge the gap from open data geeks to decision-makers?
22nd May 2013
Accompanying piece to previous blog providing an overview of the statistical outputs that will be provided under then new benefits system.
14th May 2013
How the changes to the benefits system will impact the data available to target resources and evaluate how local areas are changing over time.
27th April 2013
BlueLightCamp lands this weekend, following the same unconference format as UK GovCamp and CityCamp…
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25th April 2013
A recent comment from somebody doing excellent work in community regeneration and…
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19th March 2013
Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th March 2013 We’ve been going to CityCamp…
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12th February 2013
John Perry OCSI have been working with HACT to develop Population Insight,…
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11th February 2013
The new data tool gives housing providers free access to Census 2011…
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7th January 2013
What can we find for housing in the midst of the census…
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13th December 2012
Following the release of the 2011 Census data in December 2012, we…
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10th December 2012
In the two weeks since we have launched Community Insight, we’ve heard some…
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6th December 2012
Want to use your knowledge and skills to make a difference in…
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3rd December 2012
ACRE produces unique area based Health Profiles. Action with Communities in Rural…
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27th November 2012
Community Insight is a new online community mapping and reporting tool enabling…
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23rd November 2012
The first set of small area data from the Census 2011 was…
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7th November 2012
Census population figures at small area level This release will provide the…
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26th October 2012
Date for Census 2011 Second release (local area data) The next release…
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2nd October 2012
Junior data developer, Brighton, permanent About the role Want to use your…
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