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Building the Future with Data: Homes England’s Data Platform

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Building the Future with Data: Homes England’s Data Platform

Explore how Homes England built a secure data platform to improve data quality and empower better, faster decision making across the organisation.

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The Accelerator grows

Posted by: David Wilks, Posted on: 12 August 2016 - Categories: Data science, Data Science Accelerator

The fifth Accelerator programme has now finished and we have 29 graduates from 21 organisations with the skills and technical knowledge to make a real contribution to data science across the public sector. This is a significant achievement in just …

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Using Google Sheets to audit your foreign language content

Posted by: Vin Pillai, Posted on: 12 August 2016 - Categories: Google Analytics, Google Sheets

...a list of unsorted URLs related to the content area I was interested in. I knew the list would include some foreign language pages but the volume and distribution of...

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The Accelerator - time to apply!

Posted by: David Wilks, Posted on: 4 August 2016 - Categories: Data science, Data Science Accelerator

The Data Science Accelerator is a cross-government training programme. It’s backed by GDS, the Office for National Statistics, Government Office for Science, and the analytical professions (statistics, economics, operational research and social research). Forty-one people from 26 organisations across the …

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What’s next for the Performance Platform?

Posted by: Roxanne Asadi, Posted on: 16 June 2016 - Categories: Performance Platform
Get involved in the next steps for Performance Platform

We’ve completed a re-discovery of the Performance Platform. This is the third in a series of posts in which we explain why this was necessary, what we’ve learnt and what we’re planning for the future. In this post we take a look at the next steps for the Performance Platform.

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Performance Platform: 5 themes and 7 personas

Posted by: Roxanne Asadi and Tingting Zhao, Posted on: 15 June 2016 - Categories: Performance Platform
Performance Platform kanban wall

We’ve completed a re-discovery of the Performance Platform. This is the second in a series of posts in which we explain why this was necessary, what we’ve learnt and what we’re planning for the future. Read on to hear about what we found in discovery.

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Changing the Performance Platform

Posted by: Roxanne Asadi, Posted on: 8 June 2016 - Categories: Performance Platform

We’ve completed a re-discovery of the Performance Platform. This is the first in a series of posts in which we explain why this was necessary, what we’ve learnt and what we’re planning for the future.

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Updates from the Performance Platform

Posted by: Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, Posted on: 7 June 2016 - Categories: Performance Platform
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 …

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Use the search API to get useful information about GOV.UK content

Posted by: Tara Stockford, Posted on: 26 May 2016 - Categories: Google Sheets, Other tools
API data for a GOV.UK page

GOV.UK’s search engine is powered by lots of underlying information that isn’t always shown in the main search results. But you can access this valuable metadata through a more technical interface, with filters to get just the details you want.

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DAUGS VIII : What we learned

Posted by: Ben Daniels, Posted on: 24 May 2016 - Categories: Data insights, Events
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I recently attended my first DAUGS meet-up at the National Audit Office. DAUGS is a community of practice showcasing innovative work by data and performance analysts across government. Performance Analysis & Benefits Realisation Philip Sturtivant from the Skills Funding Agency …

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Tracking errors and alerts for operational insights

Posted by: Tim Leighton-Boyce, Posted on: 18 May 2016 - Categories: Google Analytics, Implementation
Chart showing different rates of postcode alerts

We’re familiar with the value of digital analytics to understand how users interact with websites and digital services, but the data can also produce practical operational information which would be hard to get any other way. We added Google Analytics …

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