The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
shares how they are using data to empower
through information.
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 …
In my role of analysing the performance of GOV.UK I often work on projects that involve complicated data sets with numerous dimensions and measures. This can prove a headache when it comes to analysing and reporting, how can you view …
When I’m doing content analysis on GOV.UK, sometimes I need to analyse page level data which is not tracked through analytics software but still represents valuable information. In these circumstances I use the ImportXML feature in Google Sheets which enables …
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, …
Deriving value from Data Science at scale requires execution on a number of fronts. In previous blog posts, we’ve covered techniques, data access, and skills. Our 6th Data Science Show & Tell focused this time around on Data Science Infrastructure. …
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 …
GOV.UK is planning scheduled maintenance on our shared infrastructure from 7pm on Tuesday September 22. We expect normal service to resume by 11pm that day. During this time dashboards will remain available but live feeds will become static. It will …
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