Despite the current overhyped status of the internet of things, real-time and near real-time data is an important topic in both the private and public sectors. Whether the data is transactional in nature or sensor related for such things as …
The Foreign Office have embraced social media in recent years. Their accounts include the popular travel advice account which gives much needed advice to British nationals and British Ambassadors overseas. In addition to the communication aspect, Twitter accounts hold invaluable …
The Performance Platform is helping build experimental visualisations for the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to let you view and query data on call-outs, such as emergency response times, and the number of fire incidents per London ward. This work is …
If you've visited the Performance Platform recently, you may have noticed a new link in the header: The prototypes page is a place where the performance team can host unsupported, experimental approaches to data analysis and visualisations. It's the result …
News articles account for a lot of the traffic to GOV.UK, getting approximately 225,000 visits in a typical week. But until now, we haven’t had the opportunity to conduct a deeper analysis of them. How fast do their viewing figures fall? …
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