Joining up the dots - is about turbo-charging API connectivity across government to enable effective data sharing in a seamless, secure, legal and trusted manner.
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 …
...to share insights and approaches on topics ranging from tag management to analysing channel shift. DAUGS is always a great opportunity to showcase new techniques adopted by digital analysts in...
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 …
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 …
...set for the first time? The Problem Take our GOV.UK feedback survey for example, you may have seen it appear in the header of the site from time to time,...
...I wanted to be able to scrape when those pages were last updated in order to sort them based on the most recent update. The last updated information is found...
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.
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