Our Data Portal
We are committed to ensuring the secure sharing of quality data both across the organisation and beyond, we know this is vital to address the wider challenges the water industry is facing. Our Data strategy outlines the journey we are taking to get there, you can read it here. Our portal is a place for us to share open data with anyone who would like to access it. Our data is provided with an open data license to facilitate the use. Our data will be provided with supporting information:
- What the data is
- Where it comes from
- The frequency with which we will update the data
This information ensures it is easy to understand.
We will provide the data in formats that will enable it to be manipulated by machines, such as csv, and sometimes will provide the data in multiple formats if this will further the use of the data.
We are mapping our commitment and progress to releasing Open Data using our Open Data Roadmap, this can be found below
We are keen to work with our communities to understand what data sets should take priority. We have a page to enable you to feedback on our data strategy, Open Data Roadmap and also request new datasets here.
We have just published our new Data Strategy, a pivotal milestone that underscores our commitment to innovation and transparency, fostering a data-driven culture within South East Water.
The document can be downloaded here.
We will stage our Open Data rollout which will ensure the data we provide is released on a priority basis that will have the most benefit for our communities and customers, how we will do this is outlined in our Data Strategy.
| Now - 3 months | 3 - 6 months | 9 - 12 months | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data management | Review shared data with a view to making it Open Data where appropriate Identify priority data sets | Implement data quality measures to ensure priority data sets are Open Ready, learning by doing | Create and train teams in a standard process for Open Ready data |
| Platform/technology | Publish our open data portal and Data Strategy Publish our first data set so we can learn by doing | Implement data cataloguing tooling to improve data quality and ensure data accessibility First 2 data drops - publish 2 new open data sets | Next 2 data drops - publish 2 new open data sets |
| People and culture | Build our Data team through training and upskilling our data experts Our experts will lead on initiating our Data Hub, which we will build into a Centre of Excellence for Data | Roll out companywide Data Literacy training, supported by our Data Hub Identify champions and stakeholders, including our Data Gvoernance Guild, to involve in our Centre of Excellence | Engage with wider community stakeholders to build communities, discussion groups to prioritise data sets and to work with the data |
| Process and governance | Identify champions and stakeholders to initiate our Data Goverannce Guild, a skilled working community to support how we triage and manage our Open Data releases Publish our Open Data License Create a feedback mecahnism to identify and prioritise Open Data sets until the formal process is in place | Build the policies and procedures for our data triage process. Roll out a formal process for identifying and triaging our priority Open Data sets Create a structured feedback mechanism to bring ideas and improvements into our planning process for future Open Data releases | Work with the Data Hub and our data community to build tools and guides supporting the data use Publish case studies to showcase the value derived from our Open Data releases |
Data management
Review shared data with a view to making it Open Data where appropriate Identify priority data sets
Platform/technology
Publish our open data portal and Data Strategy Publish our first data set so we can learn by doing
People and culture
Build our Data team through training and upskilling our data experts Our experts will lead on initiating our Data Hub, which we will build into a Centre of Excellence for Data
Process and governance
Identify champions and stakeholders to initiate our Data Goverannce Guild, a skilled working community to support how we triage and manage our Open Data releases Publish our Open Data License Create a feedback mecahnism to identify and prioritise Open Data sets until the formal process is in place
Data management
Implement data quality measures to ensure priority data sets are Open Ready, learning by doing
Platform/technology
Implement data cataloguing tooling to improve data quality and ensure data accessibility First 2 data drops - publish 2 new open data sets
People and culture
Roll out companywide Data Literacy training, supported by our Data Hub Identify champions and stakeholders, including our Data Gvoernance Guild, to involve in our Centre of Excellence
Process and governance
Build the policies and procedures for our data triage process. Roll out a formal process for identifying and triaging our priority Open Data sets Create a structured feedback mechanism to bring ideas and improvements into our planning process for future Open Data releases
Data management
Create and train teams in a standard process for Open Ready data
Platform/technology
Next 2 data drops - publish 2 new open data sets
People and culture
Engage with wider community stakeholders to build communities, discussion groups to prioritise data sets and to work with the data
Process and governance
Work with the Data Hub and our data community to build tools and guides supporting the data use Publish case studies to showcase the value derived from our Open Data releases
To supply today’s customers, we draw water from more than 250 boreholes, six rivers and six reservoirs. This water is treated at one of our 87 treatment works.
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