BiDiS

BIDIS

2015-2016

BiDiS, or “Big Data in Sheffield”, was a project to investigate the shared issues around data among the city’s five major “anchor institutions”: Sheffield City Council, the two Universities (The University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam University), and the two major NHS Foundation Trusts (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals & Sheffield Children’s Hospital). These challenges related to significant increases in the volume and frequency of data these organisations were producing the resulting storage, management & analysis requirement, and, crucially, whether these organisations could work together to address their common issues and find ways to share and connect data in order to bring greater benefit to the city and it’s citizens.

This process involved stakeholder engagement, the development of a framework of challenges across the organisations, and the production of an all day “Actionable Data Workshop” involving local and national stakeholders who engaged on issues surrounding health and research across the whole data lifecycle.