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What’s changing on data.gov.uk and why

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What’s changing on data.gov.uk and why

We have made some changes to data.gov.uk. We are genuinely excited to share what we have built, learning from how you use data.gov.uk and listening to how you want us to improve it. This is a beginning, not a finished …

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Sprint notes 25 July – 7 August 2014

Posted by: Henry Hadlow, Posted on: 11 August 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

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 …

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Service managers design their dream dashboards

Posted by: Will Roissetter, Posted on: 8 August 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

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 …

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Customise your dashboard data

Posted by: Matt Harrington, Posted on: 30 July 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

...now displayed on the right hand side. You’ll also notice we now show the latest value about your service rather than the average. This is because our performance dashboards are...

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Sprint notes 11–24 July 2014

Posted by: Henry Hadlow, Posted on: 28 July 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

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 …

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Our turn to open up

Posted by: Rosalie Marshall, Posted on: 28 July 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

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 …

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Reducing failure demand for digital services

Posted by: James Abley, Posted on: 4 July 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

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 …

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Tour de Performance Platform

Posted by: Nayeema Chowdhury, Posted on: 25 June 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

...hello. If you’re a service manager or a developer, you can also read our documentation, which gives much more information on how you can connect your services to the platform....

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Guest post: New dashboards for book a practical driving test

Posted by: Matt Harrington, Posted on: 16 June 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

...services in one – the initial bookings (1.5 million p.a.) and then ‘changes’ to those bookings (0.8 million p.a.). We define ‘change transactions’ as moving the date of the appointment...

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View driving record performance dashboard

Posted by: Matt Harrington, Posted on: 23 May 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

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...

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Introducing GOV.UK content dashboards

Posted by: Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, Posted on: 23 May 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

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 …

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