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Joining up the dots: the findings of our recent API discovery

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Joining up the dots: the findings of our recent API discovery

Joining up the dots - is about turbo-charging API connectivity across government to enable effective data sharing in a seamless, secure, legal and trusted manner.

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Searching the service manual – was it worth it? Part 2.

Posted by: David Wilks, Posted on: 4 December 2013 - Categories: Data insights

‘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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Data digest: November

Posted by: Andrew Greenway, Posted on: 29 November 2013 - Categories: Performance Platform

...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...

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Testing times

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 15 November 2013 - Categories: Performance Platform

...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...

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Searching the service manual - was it worth it?

Posted by: Andrew Greenway, Posted on: 12 November 2013 - Categories: Data insights

...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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Learning and sharing

Posted by: Peter Jordan - Head of Performance and Data Analysis, GDS, Posted on: 7 November 2013 - Categories: Data insights

Digital analytics is a fast-moving field, and staying on top of what constitutes best practice takes effort. The product analyst team in GDS uses analytics to understand how users interact with GOV.UK. We need to stay up to speed with the …

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The half life of news

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 22 October 2013 - Categories: Data science

...unique views on its most popular day. This left us with approximately 500 articles. We then wrote a script which looped over these and attempted to fit an exponential decay...

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Dawn of the data blog

Posted by: Andrew Greenway, Posted on: 20 October 2013 - Categories: Data insights

Data is central to everything we do in GDS. Our user researchers, analysts and data scientists experts work alongside product teams to generate insights that make digital services better. The...

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