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Revolutionizing UK Property: Embrace Location Data!

  Unlocking Innovation and Growth in the Property Ecosystem

In a groundbreaking report published today (1 August), the Geospatial Commission sheds light on the transformative potential of emerging technologies and location data in the UK property industry. The report emphasizes how data-enabled digital tools can revolutionize the sector, opening up new opportunities for growth and innovation.  

Paving the Way for a Data-Driven Property Revolution

The property industry in the UK is experiencing a technological revolution, with the rapid adoption of data-driven digital tools. At the heart of this revolution lies location data, services, and applications, which play a pivotal role in various aspects of the property sector. From town planning and site identification to property management and retrofitting, location data is indispensable for the sector's efficient functioning.   Location Data Empowering the Property Ecosystem Contributing an estimated £100 billion to the UK economy annually, the property sector's significance cannot be overstated. To achieve its economic, social, and environmental goals, a spatial perspective is vital. This approach can enhance productivity, fuel innovation, improve residential areas, and contribute to net-zero commitments. Alexandra Notay, Independent Commissioner of the Geospatial Commission, underlines the crucial role of the property ecosystem as the backbone of our daily lives. While acknowledging the potential of emerging technologies and location data-driven opportunities for the property industry, she highlights the need for a systematic approach to innovation and technology across diverse asset classes and property types. The report, she believes, can serve as a catalyst for enabling transformative change.  

Location Data Driving Innovation Across the Property Lifecycle

The report identifies key initiatives already underway within the property sector and highlights additional opportunities for location data, services, and applications to propel innovation across the property life cycle. Some of these opportunities include: - Digitizing the property buying and selling process and ensuring data interoperability to streamline the end-to-end process. - Supporting the deployment of green technologies, such as solar panels, heat pumps, insulation, and energy efficiency solutions, by identifying areas where they can have the most significant impact. - Improving industry productivity by leveraging location data collected and created during design and construction to reduce costs and enhance the targeting and design of retrofitting interventions.  

Cross-Cutting Themes to Maximize Location Data Potential

The report sets out four cross-cutting themes that are vital for harnessing the full potential of location data, services, and applications in the property sector: - Viewing property as a complex interconnected system, thereby recognizing the intricate relationships between different elements. - Emphasizing the importance of a strategic approach to data access and utilization. - Understanding the role of location data and services at various stages of the property lifecycle, from land use and planning to design, construction, buying, selling, safety, and operations. - Addressing broader themes of retrofit and regeneration to drive sustainable development and growth. As the property sector eagerly embraces the digital revolution powered by location data and digital tools, it holds the promise of ushering in an era of unprecedented innovation, growth, and sustainability. With the Geospatial Commission's report serving as a guiding beacon, the industry can wholeheartedly seize the vast potential lying ahead and confidently embark on a transformative path of change.  

Comments

Dan Hughes, Alpha Property Insight and Real Estate Data Foundation said: The property sector is at the heart of a thriving economy, our impact on the planet and a healthy society, and the effective use of data is becoming increasingly important in ensuring that it operates effectively. The world is changing rapidly and so the depth and breadth of data used by property is growing equally fast and at the heart of this is high quality and trusted location data. For many years, the UK has had one of the strongest property market data infrastructures which has been a key element in the UK being recognised as one of the leading global property markets. As the world evolves, it is important that the approach to data does too and so this report, and the actions identified, are very welcome to enable the property sector to meet the needs of society, the planet and the UK economy.   Lynne Nicholson, Head of Data, HM Land Registry said: HM Land Registry was pleased to work with the Geospatial Commission on this report which outlines the immense potential value of geospatial data for the UK economy. As one of the governmental bodies which holds significant geospatial data, HM Land Registry is committed to unlocking its value and supporting its re-use by making it more FAIR, in alignment with the UK Geospatial Strategy 2030. By sponsoring the award-winning Geovation Accelerator Programme, we are supporting the next generation of innovative Proptech start-ups using location data to revolutionise the property sector.   Sources: THX News, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology & Geospatial Commission. Read the full article

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10 April 2020

Happy Easter

If you're reading this now, this morning, I hope you have a lovely Easter weekend (going anywhere nice?); if you're reading it over the weekend, I hope you're having a good Easter weekend; and if you're reading this on Tuesday morning, I hope you had a good Easter weekend. Whichever of those holds, there are lots of links below to keep you occupied (coronavirus-dominated once more).

A few other small points:

I've spent more of my life than I ever expected banging on about the deficiencies of government workforce data, so this looks like good news.

Looking for weekend reading? The Orwell Prize hasn't let a global pandemic stop them publishing the longlists for this year's book and journalism prizes.

Looking for more weekend reading? A reminder we published a report on our first eight Data Bites events last week. Looking for weekend watching or listening? Catch up with all nine events here.

The more stuff there is, the harder it is to find. More than 12 years old, but this interesting read meandered its way into my Twitter stream this week.

Have a good long weekend

Gavin

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Today's links:

Tips and tech

A Nesta Challenges’ guide to working from home (Nesta)

How to interview people online (DfE Digital)

Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

People With Mental Health Conditions Are Saying The Coronavirus Has Plunged Their Treatment Into Crisis (BuzzFeed)

How The Financial Times is adapting its events business (Digiday)

Five tips for working from home with children (Civil Service)

Our "broadcasting from home" tips (a group of international journalists, via Zoe Flood)

Graphic content

Viral content: spread

How coronavirus spread across the globe - visualised (The Guardian)

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research (Our World in Data)

Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads (FT)

Covid vs. US Daily Average Cause of Death (Robert Martin)

Why Coronavirus Cases Have Spiked in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan* (New York Times)

A couple of visualisations exploring the @DataSciCampus work to extract the Google Mobility data (Henry Lau, ONS)

COVID 19 in England - assorted data and visualisations (Steve Peters)

Why a study showing that covid-19 is everywhere is good news* (The Economist)

Suivez l’évolution de l’épidémie, département par département (Le Figaro)

A leading model now estimates tens of thousands fewer covid-19 deaths by summer* (Washington Post)

How coronavirus affects the body, spreads and kills* (The Times)

Viral content: counting the human cost

The coronavirus is killing black and Latino people in New York City at twice the rate that it's killing white people* (New York Times)

Reconciling COVID-19 death data in the UK (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford)

Coronavirus UK death toll: why what we think we know is wrong (The Guardian)

Daily coronavirus death counts (Chris Giles)

Viral content: counting the economic cost

More Than 3 Million Americans Lost Their Jobs Last Week. See Your State* (New York Times, via Marcus)

#universalcredit claimants over time (Times Red Box via Katie Martin, via Tim)

Sector shutdowns during the coronavirus crisis: which workers are most exposed? (IFS)

How the coronavirus changed what we worry about – video (The Guardian)

Coronavirus response grants tracker (360Giving)

Coronavirus is revealing how broken America’s economy really is (The Guardian)

The UK economic fallout from coronavirus in numbers* (FT)

We must focus attention on our next steps* (FT)

Viral content: everything else

How is the coronavirus affecting global air traffic? (The Guardian)

Location Data Says It All: Staying at Home During Coronavirus Is a Luxury* (New York Times)

How can coronavirus models get it so wrong? (The Guardian)

Coronavirus: When will we know if the UK lockdown is working? (BBC News)

China’s data reveal a puzzling link between covid-19 cases and political events* (The Economist)

Lifesaver or false protection: do face masks stop coronavirus?* (FT)

Suppression Exit Strategies: Options for Lifting Lockdown Measures in the UK (Institute for Global Change)

Types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation (Reuters Institute)

Bruegel electricity tracker of COVID-19 lockdown effects (Bruegel, via Alex)

New video: Validating data science models, a case study with Covid-19 data (Junk Charts)

Anti-viral content

Bernie Sanders ends Democratic presidential campaign* (FT)

Labour Party leadership contests (IfG)

Labour's new shadow cabinet (IfG)

300 years (nearly) of British Prime Ministers, in one chart (me for IfG - event has been potponed but will happen soon)

Staff at the UK Mission to the EU (UK in a Changing Europe)

What are EU agencies? (UK in a Changing Europe)

Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet: a balancing act (UK in a Changing Europe)

Meta data

Viral content

Coronavirus: the science explained (UKRI)

So this morning, Google launched Community Mobility Profiles for 131 countries. Big thanks to Google and engineers for producing really useful data to support Covid-19 response. But here's a thing. Google released the data as PDF... (thread by Tom Smith)

Technology and the Response to Covid-19: Our Approach (Institute for Global Change)

A guide to healthy skepticism of artificial intelligence and coronavirus (Brookings)

How the Office for National Statistics is responding to the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic (ONS)

Supporting the response to coronavirus (COVID-19) (ONS Data Science Campus)

Open Data Being Used to Help Track COVID-19 in Scotland (DIGIT)

Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model (FiveThirtyEight)

Digital public services: cross-civil society collaboration during the COVID19 crisis (Richard Pope/Dan Barrett)

Removing the pump handle – stewarding data at times of public health emergency (Ada Lovelace Institute)

Viral content: privacy and personal data

Data sharing during this public health emergency (Dame Fiona Caldicott)

Hancock issues six-month order for NHS to share confidential patient data (Civil Service World, via Colm)

NHS Data responses to Coronavirus – 9th April 2020 (medConfidential)

Tracking coronavirus: big data and the challenge to privacy (FT)

Big Data Is Helping Us Fight The Coronavirus — But At What Cost To Our Privacy? (FiveThirtyEight)

The NHS coronavirus app could track how long you spend outside* (Wired)

Simon Briscoe on Covid-19

PRIVACY EXPERTS SAY RESPONSIBLE CORONAVIRUS SURVEILLANCE IS POSSIBLE (The Intercept)

EU privacy experts push a decentralized approach to COVID-19 contacts tracing (TechCrunch)

You Really Don’t Want to Sell Your Data (Slate)

Coronavirus Sets the Stage for Hacking Mayhem* (Wired)

Viral (mis)information

How the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory tore through the internet* (Wired)

A Conspiracy Theory That 5G Is Causing The Coronavirus Is Spreading Alongside The Pandemic (BuzzFeed)

WhatsApp puts new limits on the forwarding of viral messages (The Verge)

Times, FT and WaPo discover 'real appetite' for data-driven visual journalism on coronavirus (Press Gazette)

The danger meme: Countering visual disinformation in Asia’s politics (The Interpreter)

So there’s a lot misinformation about #COVID19 out there... (Mark Scott)

What We Pretend to Know About the Coronavirus Could Kill Us* (New York Times)

It’s time to shake up government-press relations with a dose of reality (The Guardian)

As School Moves Online, Many Students Stay Logged Out* (New York Times)

Anti-viral content

About Data About Us: London and Berlin workshops, March 2020 (ODI)

The #GeospatialCommission has published a list of 300 or so datasets (Owen Boswarva)

After Universal Credit delays, GDS's silence over Gov.uk Verify is embarrassing and shameful (Computer Weekly)

How GOV.UK Notify reliably sends text messages to users (Government Digital Service)

DDaT conference: striving for a more sustainable IT future (Defra Digital)

EVENT: csv,conf,v5

And finally...

Places

Only A Geography Whizz Will Be Able To Get Over 83% On This English Counties Quiz (BuzzFeed)

Pie chart flags (Martin Telefont, via Sukh)

The Agas Map of Early Modern London (University of Victoria)

A look into number of planes currently flying all over the world (via @The_UnSilent_)

Everything else

Axis of evil (via Alex Selby-Boothroyd, and a lot of other people)

Flowchart (Aidan Peppin)

Home baking is on the rise, thanks to coronavirus lockdowns* (The Economist)