Norfolk Office of Data and Analytics (NODA)

NODA brings together data and analytics with partners to help improve services for residents.

Our purpose

We work collaboratively and think strategically to help the Council and our partners make better informed decisions. We're often working on the most current affairs and we share data, insights and information that is localised to give a Norfolk perspective.

We join up information and data using secure technology and analytical methods
We generate evidence of where to target our resources so we get the best out of them
We provide insight to prevent and reduce the need for services
We help improve outcomes for the population and community
We develop our collective analytical skills and access to data

Benefits of joining the NODA partnership

Direct delivery of data projects, answering a question or solving a problem by joining up multiple sources of data
Coordinating and convening Norfolk's data community, providing an ecosystem to support data practitioners
Offering replicable processes and training in common areas such as analytics, data ethics, security and information governance

See some of the papers and resources we've produced on the Norfolk Insight website.

NODA partners

The public service organisations behind NODA are:

Breckland Council
Broadland District Council
Great Yarmouth Borough Council
King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council
New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership
Norfolk and Waveney Health Care Partnership
Norfolk Constabulary
Norfolk County Council
Norfolk Economy Group
North Norfolk District Council
Norwich City Council
South Norfolk Council
University of East Anglia (UEA)

Contact us

If you'd like to know more about how we can help your organisation, email i&a@norfolk.gov.uk.

Example case study - Vulnerable people dashboard

We have created an anonymised view of vulnerable council service users in Norfolk to identify where resources and services are best targeted.

In the future we could use this information to:

Include other data sets from partners
Produce profiles of vulnerable people in a district
Take action to support residents with prevention or early help services

Example case study - Housing and homelessness

Brings together all housing data from councils in Norfolk with other related data to enable the partnership to help tackle homelessness.

In the future we could this information to:

Identify the characteristics that correlate to becoming homelessness
Predict the future level of homelessness in Norfolk
Build a predictive model of an individual's risk of becoming homeless

Example case study - Cost of living briefing

We created a briefing on how the cost of living crisis might affect the population of Norfolk. The briefing sets out:

What is driving the cost of living crisis
How it is effecting the UK
Who in Norfolk might be most affected