Now in its fifth year, the Data Ethics and Society Reading Group is
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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 …
...a local authority. GDS's core focus is central government. However, the platforms we are building are available for the whole public sector, offering potential benefits for local public service use....
...we have separate data for each scheme’s claims, applications and amendments. Similarly, HMRC have split ‘Excise’ into its component parts, such as ‘Alcohol and Tobacco Warehousing Declarations’ and ‘Machine Games...
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...
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 …
...when it’s applied to specific products, and many interesting pieces of analysis get published on the various product blogs currently on the go. To make sure we’re pulling all the...
...control To supplement our work on the ground we also tried remote testing with service managers. If anyone reading this is looking for a new product idea, then here’s a...
...site has received from then - 3.92% to be more precise. That doesn’t seem like a very big number; less than one in twenty visits used the search tool as...
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