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Going from mentee to mentor with the Data Science Accelerator
Going from mentee to mentor with the Data Science Accelerator
Applications for the Data Science Accelerator are now open and close on 3 June 2019.
‘Hacking’ Google Analytics to get real-time internal search terms data
I’ve previously blogged about how we’ve been experimenting with real-time data to create dashboards and custom automated email alerts. In this post I want to share how we’ve been ‘hacking’ Google Analytics to gain useful insights into what our users …
Performance dashboard for waste carrier registration
This week we released a performance dashboard for the Environment Agency's waste carrier registration service. It's one of our 'exemplar' services, which we're making simpler, clearer and faster to use, and is currently in public beta. All businesses that buy, …
Cross government meetup: helping User Research and Customer Insight work effectively on digital service design
This week we held the 3rd meetup for people who do (or are interested in) user research across government. The theme for this meeting was to understand the different kinds of research that departments do and consider ways we can …
A local authority performance dashboard
Yesterday I showcased the Solihull missed waste collections dashboard at the Socitm spring conference. This service dashboard is different from our current dashboards, being the first we have created for a local authority. GDS's core focus is central government. However, the …
Transactions Explorer: fifth data release
Yesterday we released a new set of data for the Transactions Explorer, covering October 2012 – September 2013. The Transactions Explorer is our tool for tracking the performance of the government’s transactional services. It includes transaction volumes, costs and digital take-up figures …
New GOV.UK site activity dashboard
Today we’re releasing a new performance dashboard for activity on GOV.UK. This shows total web traffic to the GOV.UK site, the most popular content on GOV.UK, and trends in the types of device that people are using to access the …
Automating email alerts for ‘trending’ content
I recently blogged about some of the ways we’ve been using real-time data in GDS. In this post I’ll be covering how we’ve been working with a couple of government departments to alert them of recently viewed popular content. Intelligence …
Making the most of real-time data
Product analysts on GOV.UK can access a vast amount of user behaviour data through web analytics. We’re always looking for different ways to mine this information to discover new and interesting insights. One area we’ve tried recently is examining real-time …
Searching the service manual – was it worth it? Part 2.
‘Analysis’ and ‘data’ are very broad terms. Often people say they have done the analysis, when really they have done an analysis. Different types of analysis give different perspectives on the same question. I work for GDS assessing the benefits …
Data digest: November
This might be the GDS data blog, but that doesn’t mean all the stories related to data are published here first. Data is often most interesting - and useful - when it’s applied to specific products, and many interesting pieces …