Why our dashboard works
...pieces of information and this formed the first version of our performance platform dashboard. For the data that lived in our own back end database, we were given templates by...
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Performance Anxiety
...to fill in). Other governments with a reputation for being at the forefront of digital also score poorly (e.g. Estonia). International comparisons are hard. There are language barriers and data...
Introducing the service manual team
Since March 2015 a small, multidisciplinary team has been reassessing our understanding of users and the needs for the service design manual. Here's an introduction to what the team is...
The signal and the noise
...for small transactions. We're going to switch to weekly averages for several metrics to make the trend clearer. Here's a graph of user satisfaction for Prison visit bookings, showing daily...
Improving how we publish organogram data
...used for things that it wasn’t designed for, like finding out who to contact, and what their contact details are, and so users get frustrated when the tool doesn’t meet...
Detecting semantic similarity on GOV.UK
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Ellie King - Data Scientist, GDS and Nicky Zachariou - Head of Data Science (Prisons and Probation), MoJ, Posted on:
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Data science, Machine learning, Python
...this as a metric for taxon diversity. Knowing how diverse the content is helps us to diagnose taxons which are too broad and identify possible clusters of content (for example,...
How we're helping people understand ethnicity data
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Richard Laux - Deputy Director (Data and Analysis), Race Disparity Unit, Posted on:
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Data insights, Open data, Statistics
...include data on the website, or should we include data published elsewhere? For practical purposes we decided to focus on data available or forthcoming on Ethnicity facts and figures. But...
Government Data Science Festival 2020
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Hillary Juma - Data Science Community Manager, ONS, Posted on:
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Data science, Events
...across governments. One key cornerstone for the data science community is our annual conference. The first three conferences were all run as 'traditional' in-person events in London and Manchester. For...
We want your feedback on using the DOI standard in government
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Terence Eden - Senior Technology Policy Advisor, Data Standards Authority, Posted on:
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Data Standards, Open data
...page until the end of December 2020. We will use your feedback to decide whether to develop a formal proposal to take before the Open Standards Board for consideration. Background...
Government data scientists demo projects at GDS Show and Tell
...helped the team optimise this trade-off. Now the FSA is looking at other potential use cases for this type of analysis. Meanwhile the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is experimenting...
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