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From fridge yetis to real results: how the HMRC app is helping people take control of their money and tax

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From fridge yetis to real results: how the HMRC app is helping people take control of their money and tax

HMRC’s Transformation Roadmap sets out a clear ambition: to make everyday tax interactions simpler and more intuitive to meet customer needs. The increased traffic to the HMRC app this year reflects HMRC’s longer‑term ambition to make it easier for customers …

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What is our new Algorithmic Transparency Standard?

Posted by: Natalia Domagala, Head of Data Ethics - CDDO, Posted on: 29 November 2021 - Categories: Data Ethics

The Central Digital and Data Office has developed the Algorithmic Transparency Standard to help public sector bodies in the UK share information on their use of algorithmic tools with the general public.

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Measuring complex digital services

Posted by: Catherine Hope, Digital Performance Analyst, Department for Work and Pensions, Posted on: 9 November 2021 - Categories: Digital Service Standard, Performance Analysis, Uncategorized
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Should you enable users to save their answers so that they can return to your digital service? And how do you make a data-driven decision?

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Developing a data strategy and delivering it

Posted by: Katharine Purser, Head of Data Strategy and Enablement, DWP Digital, Posted on: 19 October 2021 - Categories: Analytics strategy, Other, People and Skills
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DWP Digital has launched a new Chief Data Office, to move towards using data more strategically and improve the customer experience for millions of people who access DWP services each year.

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What skills do you need for working in data ethics?

Posted by: Natalia Domagala, Head of Data Ethics - CDDO, Posted on: 7 September 2021 - Categories: Data Ethics, Data literacy, People and Skills, Uncategorized
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What skills do you need to work in data ethics? Read this blog for more details on the new DDaT Data Ethicist Role and its development.

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Our new guidance on improving spreadsheets in government

Posted by: Data Standards Authority Team, CDDO, Posted on: 18 August 2021 - Categories: Data literacy, Data Standards, Excel, Google Sheets, Spreadsheets
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The Data Standards Authority has published guidance about creating and sharing spreadsheets to help people avoid errors and make their spreadsheets easy to find and use across government.

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govcookiecutter: A template for data science projects

Posted by: Eric Young - Data Scientist, GDS, Posted on: 20 July 2021 - Categories: agile, Data science
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Read how the govcookiecutter helps government data science teams save time and effort when building assured, robust, and secure Agile data science projects.

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Join us at DataConnect21 and share your data stories

Posted by: Data Standards Authority Team, CDDO, Posted on: 15 July 2021 - Categories: Events, People and Skills
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We are launching a brand new, cross-government data event, running from 27 September to 1 October 2021, and you’re all invited.

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Asking people about their ethnicity

Posted by: Richard Laux - Deputy Director (Data and Analysis), Race Disparity Unit, Posted on: 15 June 2021 - Categories: Data insights, Open data, Statistics

Richard Laux outlines the 3 main reasons for collecting data about people’s ethnicity and identifies 6 principles for collecting these to meet all users’ needs.

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Accelerating public sector data science and visualisation

Posted by: Sophie Nelson - Programme Officer, Office for National Statistics, Posted on: 8 June 2021 - Categories: Data science, Data Science Accelerator, Data Visualisation, People and Skills
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The Data Science Accelerator mentoring programme is expanding to offer a new data visualisation branch. Applications for both open on 14 June.

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What Makes a Good Data Science Project?

Posted by: Hillary Juma - Data Science Community Manager, ONS, Posted on: 21 May 2021 - Categories: Data science, People and Skills
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Our diverse range of speakers at the Data Science Community of Interest shared what they think makes a good data science project.

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