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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 …
Google Analytics’s Average Time on Page can be a hugely important metric but also a very misleading one. As a mean average, it can be influenced by a skewed distribution, a problem that you can’t diagnose in the web interface. So I found a way to break down the data into individual visit lengths.
GDS have now run 5 rounds of the Data Science Accelerator, and several participants have since gone on to roles where they can use their new skills. We are proud of this success. The Accelerator is a truly cross-government programme, …
There was a real buzz for our 8th Data Science Show and Tell. It was more crowded than ever - many people came for the first time. There were lots of great questions with a networking session after. Look out …
In my role as the performance analyst for the Digital Marketplace I often need to show the locations of suppliers and buyers. In this post, I want to share some free tools that I use to convert postcode data into …
MeasureCamp London VIII took place with close to 300 participants on March 5th, 2016.
A year and a half ago, two GDS Designers asked me, “Can you show us how Highway Code content on the GOV.UK site is performing?” This would have been a simple request, were it not for the sheer number of pages …
On 25 February we held the seventh meetup of digital and performance analysts who work across UK government services (DAUGS VII), at the National Audit Office. Sixty colleagues came together to share insights and approaches on topics ranging from tag management …
My team recently carried out an online survey to gauge the views of users on their experience of a digital service we built. Included in the survey was an open question to give users an opportunity to provide any comments. …
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 …
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