Changing the ‘Data at GDS’ blog
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Felix Burton This blog was set up three years ago to communicate trends and insights GDS has gathered from data analysis, user research and building the...
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Felix Burton This blog was set up three years ago to communicate trends and insights GDS has gathered from data analysis, user research and building the...
At the Data Standards Authority (DSA), we’re working to make it easier and more effective to share and use data across government. Our new guidance assists teams to publish their...
...pioneering national and municipal governments have developed their own transparency measures: Amsterdam and Helsinki have introduced an AI register, New York City has published a report detailing the use of...
...a shared CJS linked dataset. Using Splink, the dataset will bring together Police, CPS and MoJ data to provide new insights into policy, performance, and efficiency of the whole end-to-end...
...suffered from underinvestment. More than a quarter of its links were broken. Search results surfaced outdated or irrelevant datasets. Too often, users who came looking for data they could trust...
...in new users aged over 55 and nearly 2.4 million people viewing their forecast in 2025 - up from 1.7 million in 2024, an increase of nearly 664,000 users. Claim...
...the work faster, more consistent and easier to explain. The data problem behind the data problem Here is where it gets interesting. Before the team could even begin testing new...
...services/patterns. The assessment team noted the following recommendations. The team should continue to undertake user research in each sprint and should look to embed a dedicated user researcher into the...
...Platform, a process we'll use to help prioritise the development of new platform features. Our user researcher and one of our developers attended the audit with me. During the audit,...
Out of date notifications We recently enabled notifications to let our users know if their data is out of date. This means users get an email reminder when they need...