This post explains how the Government Digital Service (GDS) have implemented updates from schema.org to GOV.UK, to make important coronavirus content easier to find for users.
We’ve been hard at work this sprint. We’ve added new features to dashboards, while gearing up for our Service Standard Public Beta Assessment on the 27 August. Passing this assessment will give us permission from the Government Digital Service to …
Despite the current overhyped status of the internet of things, real-time and near real-time data is an important topic in both the private and public sectors. Whether the data is transactional in nature or sensor related for such things as …
The Foreign Office have embraced social media in recent years. Their accounts include the popular travel advice account which gives much needed advice to British nationals and British Ambassadors overseas. In addition to the communication aspect, Twitter accounts hold invaluable …
The Performance Platform is helping build experimental visualisations for the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to let you view and query data on call-outs, such as emergency response times, and the number of fire incidents per London ward. This work is …
If you've visited the Performance Platform recently, you may have noticed a new link in the header: The prototypes page is a place where the performance team can host unsupported, experimental approaches to data analysis and visualisations. It's the result …
We're a bit light this sprint since a few people are taking their summer hols. But we've still got a few things to share: This sprint What browsers people use to access a service We've made a prototype module to …
At the Performance Platform we regularly run workshops with service managers to get more understanding of their needs. This time we asked them to design their own dream analytics dashboards. While the dashboards sketched by service managers aren’t likely to …
The performance team is giving service managers the ability to customise the timeframes on dashboards. When viewing statistics about their service, service managers can now select a start and end month on the dashboard graph. This will let them easily …
We've started publishing sprint notes as a way to keep you up to date on what we've delivered and what we're working on next. We structure our work into 6-sprint blocks, and this was the second sprint of 6. Each …
The Performance Platform team at GDS has updated the information it gives to service managers and developers with a new ‘get a dashboard’ page. This aims to give a good overview of the basic process digital teams have to go …