We are The Data City. We support government, analysts, investors & researchers to understand emerging industrial sectors in real time.
Leeds, UK
Joined October 2017
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The Data City features in the @FT Big Read on “growth in every postcode”.
Our data: Cambridge has nearly 3x as many frontier firms per head as its neighbour Peterborough.
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Pfizer and a four-person pharmacy use the same words online. Our old Similar Companies matching sometimes paired them.
It now checks sector, size and geographical reach too: 60% more true peers in your results.
How it works 👇
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Want to know when a company changes director, moves address or raises investment? Watchlists in the Industry Engine track it for you, with alerts straight to your inbox.
Dan walks through this month’s update 👇
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Frontier companies are just 3% of UK businesses. So why are they the most important part of the economy? 🚀
Three reasons, and why official data can’t see them 👇
#FrontierFriday #UKEconomy
The Data City Summit is back in Leeds on the of 12th November 🚀
Hear how people are using real-time data to find the frontier companies official statistics miss.
Talks, lunch and drinks are on us.
Register your ticket: hubs.ly/Q04B_b-c0
The frontier economy is 60% more productive than the rest. We can say that because we've rebuilt how we measure GVA: real profit and wage data from ~60,000 UK companies, with no reliance on SIC codes.
Here's how it works: hubs.ly/Q04BJyzc0
You know which companies are in your sector. Now see who they’re hiring.
@LightcastData Jobs & Skills on The Data City platform: real-time job demand, skills and salaries by sector, region or company.
Try it free for 7 days 👇
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A minute from last year’s Data City Summit. 🎥
We’re back on the 12th of November with Mapping the World, and every talk comes back to one idea: making the invisible, visible.
It’s invite-only, so DM us or reach out for a ticket.
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Fantastic to be here in Manchester. And brilliant to have the PM and so much of his Cabinet here made so much more likely by his brave decision to establish Number 10 North. Also great to have so much @TheDataCity data powering the prospectus for building an #InnovationNation.
Frontier Friday: The FoodTech sector 🌱
339 active UK companies, six verticals, farm to table.
In this video, Harini shows you how to find the most innovative companies in the sector in a few clicks
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A new ESCoE blog by Will McDowall (@ucl) explores how we define green economic activity and tests whether web-scraping tools can help identify emerging green sectors that fall outside official measures: tinyurl.com/2kyfkykw
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ALT Photo shows people installing solar panels
Our firm-level data helped power the cluster analysis in @Inter_Trade's new report on cross-border services trade, prepared by @OxfordEconomics
Read the report here: hubs.ly/Q04zpX8p0
We had a great night at the #LeedsDigitalFestival Awards celebrating the best of Leeds tech. No trophy for us this year, but we're so proud of R&D Data Scientist, Danielle Bullamore for being shortlisted for Rising Star 🌟
Congratulations to all the winners!
The UK's most productive firms don't show up in official data. Fractile, our newest AI chip unicorn, is classed alongside IT support firms.
Our Chief Economist Paul Swinney in The Observer on why you can't grow an economy you can't see 👇
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Frontier Friday 🎥
Greater Belfast leads Northern Ireland on Industrial Strategy sectors. Against other UK city regions, it trails Edinburgh, Bristol and London in services.
Paul Swinney explains the data here 👇 hubs.ly/Q04yX85Z0
Alex and Tom took The Data City's US product to the stage at Finovate Fall in New York.
You can watch the demo below👇🏻
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Interested in what our US data could do for you? Get in touch with us.
Fewer than 1% of UK companies created over 30% of new jobs from 2020 to 2024.
We helped Enterprise Britain find these ~10,000 "super scalers." Two thirds of their operations sit outside London and the South East.
Read the report: hubs.ly/Q04yJq0P0
