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Building the Future with Data: Homes England’s Data Platform

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Building the Future with Data: Homes England’s Data Platform

Explore how Homes England built a secure data platform to improve data quality and empower better, faster decision making across the organisation.

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Data Science Accelerator Programme - project update

Posted by: Helen Ashby, Posted on: 1 July 2015 - Categories: Data science, Data Science Accelerator

...models to predict the occupation codes for the injuries. In the current reporting process the free text is still collected but, due to resource constraints, the coded SOC information is...

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Data Science - developing skills in government

Posted by: Helen Ashby, Posted on: 26 June 2015 - Categories: Data science, Data Science Accelerator

Last year we launched the Data Science Accelerator Programme, believing that “time, training and technology” could help government analysts learn data science skills. Participants in the programme dedicate time away...

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Introducing the new Performance Platform community

Posted by: Will Callaghan, Posted on: 19 June 2015 - Categories: Performance Platform

The Performance Platform now has a space on Basecamp to chat and swap notes. Our new community is for anyone in government with an interest in displaying performance data and acting on it. If you help to run a government …

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Introducing the service manual team

Posted by: Nick Smith, Posted on: 16 June 2015 - Categories: Service manual

...in seeing how the user needs for the manual have changed. This is especially important in the age of Government as a Platform. A digital infrastructure shared across government needs...

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Getting started with data science

Posted by: David Wilks, Posted on: 12 June 2015 - Categories: Data science

Data Science combines statistics, programming, machine learning, automatic processing of unstructured data (including text mining) and visualisation. This can seem bewildering - many people are asking where to get started if they want to learn. This blog gives free resources that …

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Why our dashboard works

Posted by: Shraddha Parekh, Posted on: 10 June 2015 - Categories: Performance Platform

“How are we doing? How is everyone else doing? What will happen in six months time”? These are just some of the questions on the minds of many digital organisations today. Data has never been as important to an organisation …

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Kicking off the Performance Platform user forum

Posted by: Will Callaghan, Posted on: 9 June 2015 - Categories: Performance Platform

Last week we held the first ever Performance Platform user forum. We've wanted to have a get together for a while and it was great to see colleagues from across government. We were joined by service managers, analysts (and a …

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The pre-election period

Posted by: GDS team, Posted on: 29 March 2015 - Categories: Other

...the pre-election period. We just won't be talking about it much in the run-up to the election. There will however be updates and announcements made as a new government forms....

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What we’ve learned from almost 100 assessments

Posted by: Olivia Neal, Posted on: 27 March 2015 - Categories: Digital Service Standard
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...the development of new government digital services should be. In running assessments and publishing data about the pass rate and the criteria most often not passed we’re setting the benchmark....

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Demonstrating the impact of reform

Posted by: Tom Halloran, Posted on: 27 March 2015 - Categories: Performance Platform

...people across all departments to make the changes identified in the Civil Service Reform Plan. The 'Civil Service Reform: Capabilities' dashboard The Plan sets out a diverse range of programmes...

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