GDS x Imperial University Collaboration 2022 Collaboration and innovation are some of the key tenets of the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) profession. The Cabinet Office offers many avenues for productive collaboration, enabling internal and external partners to develop both …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …
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