Co-Founder of @TheDataCity : mapping the emerging economy and fixing SIC. Chair @pooldata Also Crossfit and Rum
Joined February 2009
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Alex Craven retweeted
Where are the UK’s frontier sectors really growing?
In our latest joint whitepaper with The Data City, we examine where these frontier sectors stand today, and where they are likely to grow by 2030.
Download the report: oxecon.io/2mPcLf
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My relationship with Apple is saved!
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Go to Settings -> Apps -> Safari; scroll down to Tabs, and change it back to Bottom. Everything else is a minor annoyance; but this was a major one for me.
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Alex Craven retweeted
15 Apr 2025
Webinar reminder! 🚨
We're teaming up with @LightcastData to show how real-time labour market data is changing the way we think about jobs, skills & industries.
🗓️ May 7 | 10–11am BST
🎤 Speakers from The Data City, Lightcast & @techUK
hubs.ly/Q03hnktw0
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Alex Craven retweeted
3 Mar 2025
£2m funding boost doubles @TheDataCity's valuation to £19m
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Alex Craven retweeted
5 Feb 2025
🎒↗️🐈 -- we @TheDataCity are announcing a big partnership with @OxfordEconomics to help power the future of economic forecasting around the world. We're here at their Global Economic Outlook Conference 2025 to hear about how some traditional economic measures are losing power.
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Alex Craven retweeted
23 Jan 2025
Launching next week: your guide to the 8 high-value sectors outlined in the #Invest2035
We’ve developed V1 of an Industrial Strategy Sector Mapping Guide, mapping SIC & RTIC codes to each sector.
Signup to our newsletter in our footer to find out more: thedatacity.com/
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Alex Craven retweeted
13 Jan 2025
Come work with me in Leeds!
We're hiring 4 to 6 people.
•£35k to £95k plus growth shares.
• Front end, back end, data viz, data processing, high performance computing, maths/stats person, technical product manager. Lots of roles.
• A world-leading AI company.
Happy to chat.
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25 Oct 2024
SIC was Sick, so we made it better! New product launch klaxon! ‼️
24 Oct 2024
We invented a thing. It's quite clever. Yes it's partly AI. But not the hype kind. The real kind. And it uses hardly any energy. And it solves a very specific problem. thedatacity.com/blog/sic-cod…
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Alex Craven retweeted
4 Oct 2024
TLDR: one of the hardest things we do at @TheDataCity is find the websites of companies. Sounds easy. Isn't. Took us seven years to get our UK data as good as it is. Two weeks ago we decided to see if we could do the same for France in just seven weeks. Two weeks in,... we can.
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Alex Craven retweeted
23 Sep 2024
In this blog, we use our new Global Platform and supporting RTICs to research and find companies that specialise in Semiconductors.
We’ve got insights on 7,000 Semiconductor companies from Europe, the U.S., and beyond!
Read the full blog here: hubs.ly/Q02QMz8l0
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10 Sep 2024
We’re uncovering the world’s frontier economy..
10 Sep 2024
AgriTech around the world 🌱🌾
In the latest blog, our CTO @thomasforth looks at AgriTech companies around the world.
Using RTICs in our Global Platform we're able to find interesting AgSciences and Precision Farming companies across 12 territories.
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16 Jul 2024
Very excited about this.. our B2B search engine represents the next generation of company search and classification.. truly world leading innovation (if we do say so our selves)
16 Jul 2024
We're Building an Industry Engine!
Excited to unveil a suite of new tools to revolutionise company search & classification. Think Google, but for business discovery 🚀
Find out more about our mission and what's in store in our latest blog post.
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Alex Craven retweeted
4 Jun 2024
Join us tomorrow at @Climb_UK! Our CEO @AlexCraven will be at Tech SY's roundtable at 3:45 PM in Studio 5, discussing South Yorkshire's data landscape and how it compares with other ecosystems. See you there! 😎
Register here 👇
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#Climb24 #ClimbUK
ALT A image of Leeds with an orange background with details of the climb24 event
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Alex Craven retweeted
24 Apr 2024
Healthcare is starting to embrace immersive technologies 🧑⚕️
We've used our platform to find the companies in our immersive tech RTIC who are focused on healthcare.
Read all about immersive technology’s mental health innovators 👇
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Alex Craven retweeted
21 Feb 2024
Today's Twitter Poll: Should the railways be fully renationalised?
Privatisation of the railways took place around 30 years ago, some franchises have been taken back into public ownership after failure. Would you support the whole system reverting to state ownership?
51%
I'm under 50: yes
4%
I'm under 50: no
42%
I'm 50 : yes
4%
I'm 50 : no
90,720 votes • Final results
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Alex Craven retweeted
5 Jan 2024
Say goodbye to the SIC code headache! 😓
Our Real-Time Industrial Classifications (RTICs) cover 55 emerging sectors, like AI and AgriTech. Built with UK experts, available to all Data City users.
Discover more with our free industry reports: hubs.ly/Q02fdD9T0
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Alex Craven retweeted
28 Dec 2023
On October 26th 2023, I had an Air source heat pump commissioned in my 95m2 1960’s three-bedroom semi-detached house in Flintshire, North Wales, replacing a mains gas central heating combi-boiler. The building has cavity wall insulation & A-rated double glazing. 🧵
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28 Nov 2023
Proud moment!
28 Nov 2023
The Data City made the Financial Times Tech Champions shortlist 💪🎉
The FT have crowned their 2023 Tech Champions and we’re ecstatic to have made the shortlist for ‘Markets & financial services’!
Maybe next year we can get the win… 👀
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Alex Craven retweeted
16 Nov 2023
Data Engineers in Leeds - join us!📊💪
We need a junior data engineer, and that might just be you!
You'll work on maintaining our RTICs, implementing data solutions and systems, and be responsible for communicating the story of the data.
Join the team👇
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