About this page

This page is a top-level introduction to Innovate UK’s Net Zero Living Data Guidance

You will learn:

TopLevelScope.mp3

The Net Zero Living Data Guidance

https://www.ukri.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IUK-130423-NetZeroLivingDataGuidance.pdf


Overview of the Knowledge Base scope

This image summarises the guidance plus related topics; it shows the scope of topics on which content will be added to this Knowledge Base.

The below series of short videos explain how this summary was arrived at and why these are the topics to be covered by this Knowledge Base.

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A tour through the guidance

The document structure

The guidance is a set principles, each featuring short explanations to help define the principle

Ofgem’s Data Best Practice supporting information document provides useful techniques and examples relating to this data guidance

01 The Net Zero Living Guidance document-20231205_130753-Meeting Recording.mp4

02 Origin of the guidance-20231205_132338-Meeting Recording.mp4

It was first created by Ofgem

The first application for the guidance was as a regulatory document; because of this it relies on legalistic language that can sometimes be hard to follow

Ofgem’s Data Best Practice guidance v2.0

It has 12 principles

These principles span many topics all related to preparing and sharing data ready for analysis, decisions and actions

03 The Data Guidance Principles-20231205_161659-Meeting Recording.mp4

04 Contextualising the guidance-20231205_202900-Meeting Recording.mp4

Scope and who it applies to

Most of the guidance is relevant best practice for any organisation working with data, but there are certain aspects that weren’t intended to apply to free-market organisations

Ofgem’s Digitalisation Strategy & Action Plan guidance v2.0 features additional principles related to the data guidance principles

A final summary

The guidance doesn’t include all aspects of working with data, but this Knowledge Base will have a wider scope to provide fully rounded support for when working with data

05 Data Guidance Summary Roundup-20231205_200304-Meeting Recording.mp4