...code open and reusable, and the team told us that DVLA as a whole is now proposing to adopt this process. The process will include additional controls, reflecting the organisation’s...
...surprising: 53% of the time, manual coders disagreed about how a survey should be coded. We can see this in the chart below, which shows how often volunteer coders applied...
...text, to see what worked best. One of the simplest ways of preparing text is to remove common words that add little meaning, for example 'the', 'of' or 'and'. We...
...understand the specifics of their data and publications. Over the last few months, we moved to providing code review via GitHub pull requests only, the same way that developers collaborate...
...meant that there was more time to focus on analysis, quality assurance, and explaining what the statistics were showing. What’s in a name? …pain, if an ampersand does it contain!...
...look for specific accessibility content issues. We wrote it in Python, as it’s a GDS-supported programming language, and structured the code in a way that allowed us to write and...
...are guidelines for public sector that define three principles of trustworthiness, quality and value that statistics should abide by. While the Code is required for official statistical outputs, their use...
...below, to notify us that the site has gone down or the Google Analytics code has been taken off. Example of a custom alert configuration Limitations in the user interface...
...Reasons It was clear from the assessment that the service has been built around a deep understanding of user needs, that it is meeting those needs successfully and is providing...
...track to meet the Digital by Default Service Standard at this early stage of development. Reasons The Digital Marketplace team have shown that they are: focussed on meeting the needs...
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