Chief Data Officer. Long time data and tech geek with an unhealthy passion for spatial data. All views my own.
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined April 2011
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Just a huge shout out to the amazing staff at #London #Euston #Station for helping my mum get to the train with a badly twisted knee #puttingpassengersfirst
Asenay Ali and the whole mobility team - you were brilliant
Cracking work from our statistical and data teams
🏘 Our latest Scottish Property Market Report is now live.
The report details the major trends in the Scottish land and property market since 2003-04.
Read the report in full ⬇️
ros.gov.uk/data-and-statisti….
ALT Property Market Report Scotland 2022-2023. Average residential property price by local authority. Inverclyde £132,881 City of Edinburgh £313,374
ALT Property Market Report Scotland 2022-2023. Average percentage change in the average residential property price by local authority. Orkney Islands +15.1% City of Aberdeen -2.4%
Really enjoyed todays Data Summit - great to be part of the final panel - great session !
In today’s final session, @RegistersOfScot’s Chief Data Officer, Alan Howie, shares his view that to truly unlock the value of our organisations we must unlock the value of our data #ConnectDataSummit
Heading over to Edinburgh for the Public Sector Data Conference today #ConnectDataSummit. @HolyroodConnect On the panel “Unlocking the value of data” and look forward to a lively session ! Representing @RegistersOfScot
Really enjoyed answering great questions on a very passionate panel and amazing chair
And now for our last panel of the day for what has been a fascinating dive into the best use cases for tech across Scotland’s public services! #TransformingPublicServices
Brilliant panel - brilliant questions - brilliant session :) thanks for hosting @elmosmoe (it’s all about the chickens !)
What a fun panel today with Alan Howie @RegistersOfScot, Lucy Fraser @albynhousing and Davie Morrison @NHS24 at @FutureScot_News conference. Great to hear of the fantastic work they are doing! And learning about whether I may or may not be allowed to keep chickens 🐓
Looking forward to talking about innovation through data tomorrow on this amazing panel. Representing @RegistersOfScot
🚨#TransformingPublicServices - speaker announcements
We are looking forward to welcoming our afternoon speakers at tomorrow's conference taking part in ‘Session 5: Innovation' - @elmosmoe, @RoS_AlanH, Lucy Fraser and Davie Morrison.
Sign up here ➡️ lnkd.in/e3NV4ej6
Really enjoyed pulling this article together on the #Data work we are doing in @RegistersOfScot. Useful context for my presentation next Thursday at the @FutureScot_News Transforming Public Services Event next Thursday in Glasgow
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Really looking forward to be talking about innovation through data at the 3pm session next Thursday, representing @RegistersOfScot @FutureScot_News
#TransformingPublicServices speaker announcement🚨
We are excited to announce that @RoS_AlanH, Chief Data Officer at @RegistersOfScot, will be speaking Transforming Public Services next week.
Book your ticket to hear from Alan in the Innovation Session➡️ lnkd.in/e3NV4ej6
Just awesome :)
Incredible examples of delivery, professional development and leadership at today's @OpsDelProf Awards. 🎉The Digital Submissions service from @RegistersOfScot was recognised, winning the 'A Modern Civil Service Award' 🎉 #ODPAwards2022
Over in sunny Edinburgh today to celebrate the graduation of our @RegistersOfScot cohort at @CodeClanScot
An amazing group ! Good Luck on the adventure ahead
Three new start-ups have joined the #GeovationScotland Accelerator Programme in Partnership with @RegistersOfScot and @OrdnanceSurvey!
The start-ups are The Property Price Hub, The Student Bubble and EOLAS Insight.
Find out all about the start-ups here: ow.ly/tB7J50GJpKe
7/7 zoom forward to 2016 & back to contracting for my best gig yet at @RegistersOfScot, amazing opportunities to modernise the estate with over 400 years of data to work with. Returning to full time employment in 2019 as RoS's first #CDO #BestJobEver #WhatDataSays #Data #Career
6/7 2004 took me back to full time employment. Spatial data quality consultancy enabled me to work with an amazing range of people in top tier organisations solving very cool spatial data problems #DatasNotDull #MakingADifference #WhatDataSays #Data #Career
5/7 2000 just back from a very boozy Dublin weekend and a new contract introduced me to Spatial Data. A new Passion was born – it’s all about squiggly lines ! Data specialisation took me to the next level in my career #FindYourPassion #SpatialData #WhatDataSays #Data #Career
4/7 1997 - first big career leap into contracting, leveraging Oracle skills. Own company, own boss, own sports car (yes sports car !) Moved from technical delivery to managing the delivery team. Communication is key. #BelieveInYourself #DoWhatYouLove #WhatDataSays #Data #Career
3/7 From summer placements while studying for a BSc in Computer Science Degree to a full time job. A seismic shift from Cobol coding sheets to Oracle SQL databases. All supporting an engineering company get huge pumps out the door #TechNeverStops #WhatDataSays #Data #Career
2/7 Hot summer ... 1986, just finished 6th year, enhancing a bespoke pascal system analysing horse manure for a mushroom farm - an early realisation all data is dirty (or perhaps a more literal word in this example :) ) & wrangling is Key! #DirtyData #WhatDataSays #Data #Career
1/7 It all started here! Christmas 1981 and a trip across Scotland to Edinburgh in a serious snowstorm to pick up a ZX81 (with 16K ram pack) I learned coding with Basic (10 PRINT “Hello World” 20 GOTO 10) then Z80 Machine code #RetroFrenzy #WhatDataSays #Data #Career
