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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 …
We’ve recently invited another round of applications to the Data Science Accelerator Programme. This blog gives you a taster of what that involves. It covers recent Accelerator projects and our latest Data Science Show and Tell (where 2 of these projects …
I regularly use the Google Analytics add-on in Google Sheets for reporting data to stakeholders. It's a way to obtain data via the API and run queries which are not possible to do within the Google Analytics interface. I find …
...the ‘Column’ dimension. The parameter chosen is linked to the right dimension with a few lines of code. I then make an almost identical parameter and calculated field for the...
...in the column next to my list of URLs I entered the ImportXML formula in the format: =ImportXML(Cell reference of URL, XPath) I pasted the copied XPath from the Chrome...
The practical issues of working with huge volumes of data are similar for both public and private sectors. These are the security of third party tools, the challenges of visualising data and the frustrations of working at scale. I joined colleagues from …
By adding a piece of Google Apps Script to your Google spreadsheets you can get dashboards containing up to date metrics from Google Analytics automatically emailed to your contacts.
This blog was set up three years ago to communicate trends and insights GDS has gathered from data analysis, user research and building the Performance Platform. The intended audience was analysts and policy people inside and outside government. Over time, …
...grown thanks to the increased analytical capability afforded by their investment into their architecture and ability to harness this. Digital media analytics - BT Dr. Jagdev Panesar from BT BT’s...
How does digital government in the UK compare to other countries? The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) measures this in Government at a Glance. According to this report, the UK does well at publishing open data and managing …
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