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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 …
...remain available but live feeds will become static. It will not be possible to provide new data (via upload or the write API) whilst we complete this work. The GOV.UK...
The service manual team is reassessing who the users of the service design manual are and what they need from it. We spent 4 weeks in discovery and this post will cover what we found. A little bit of background …
...bewildering variety of methods. The choice depends on the problem at hand - the best algorithm for one particular dataset could perform poorly on another task. In this blog, we...
...behind the migration is savings in cost and effort, by sharing operational resources and support. There are also a number of duplicated applications that we will be able to consolidate...
Usually at our Data Science Show and Tell events there are presentations on successful projects. This time we decided to turn that idea around and look at ‘celebrating our failures’. Why? Because in our day to day data science work failure is …
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