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Mike recently blogged about the service transformation for the Carer's Allowance exemplar and mentioned failure demand. I wanted to go into this in a little more depth and show how we can measure and reduce failure demand for online services. What …
The Performance Platform team are on tour. We’re talking about data at Civil Service Live which is a series of learning events for people working in government departments and agencies. Our first stop was at Bristol’s Colston Hall where there …
“In God we trust, all others must bring data” - W. Edwards Deming A guest blog from Martin Richardson, Service Manager, DVSA. Every 20 months or so, a further one million people use the public facing Book a practical driving test service …
Today we are releasing a performance dashboard for DVLA’s View driving record service. This is a new service and it is currently in public beta. The service lets you find out which vehicles you can drive, any penalty points and …
We’ve just launched 37 new content analytics dashboards onto the Performance Platform. We hope they will help people in government departments and agencies see at a glance how their content is performing. Find out why we built them and our …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …