Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS

I'm Head of Performance and Data Analysis at GDS. I run the GDS community and the x-Government Performance Analysis meet-ups.

Building data dashboards that meet user needs

Stephen Bell - Senior performance analyst, GDS and Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, 20 December 2018 - Data insights, Data literacy, Performance Analysis

Data democratisation is a hot topic for analysts, so at the Government Digital Service we wanted to share how we’ve approached this by understanding teams’ user needs for data and what we’ve learned whilst working with these data sources.

What we've been up to in performance analysis and opportunities ahead

Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, 14 November 2018 - Data insights, People and Skills, Performance Analysis

Four years ago we redefined our role in GDS. Since then we've built an active community of practice across government and worked to build a 'data culture' within product teams. Find out what we've done and our plans for the next year.

Performance analysis and user research cross-government meetup

Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, 9 November 2017 - Data insights, Events, Performance Analysis

Digital analytics and other data sets tell us what is happening, and user research helps us understand why. So, working together, our two disciplines can provide richer insight for our colleagues in multidisciplinary teams. In October, between 70 and 80 …

Joining GDS as a Performance Analyst

Haur Kang - Performance Analyst at GOV.UK, Ivan Franco and Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, 14 February 2017 - Other

We’ll shortly be recruiting some additional performance analysts in GDS. To give potential candidates a flavour of what it’s like, I asked my two newest colleagues to describe their experience of joining.

We want to understand more about our readers

Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, 8 December 2016 - Other

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A/Bsolutely fabulous testing - a pointer

Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, 25 August 2016 - Data insights, Google Analytics

I'm posting a link to Tim Leighton-Boyce's recent post on the Inside GOV.UK blog. It's an excellent example of engaging the whole agile team with data, and working closely with user researchers to validate that behaviours observed in usability testing are demonstrated at …

Updates from the Performance Platform

Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, 7 June 2016 - Performance Platform

Data and performance analyst colleagues working in central government will be familiar with the GDS Performance Platform. In many cases you will be responsible for the data that appears on a dashboard. The Performance Platform team has run and completed …

MeasureCamp VIII: what we learned

Tara Stockford, Tim Leighton-Boyce and Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, 11 March 2016 - Events

MeasureCamp London VIII took place with close to 300 participants on March 5th, 2016.

Big Bang Data exhibition - a personal review

Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, 3 February 2016 - Events

Last week some GDS performance and data analysts made a ‘field trip’ down the road to the Big Bang Data exhibition at Somerset House in the Strand. The exhibition curators aim to highlight “the datafication of our world and how …

Government services analytics meet up

Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, 13 February 2015 - Events

Some 65 people from across central government and the wider public sector came together on 11 February at the National Audit Office for the third Government services analytics meet up. We originally conceived of the meet ups as a way …

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