I gave a talk to the Government ICT 2.0 conference this week on the work of the data group here in GDS. The main reason for this talk was to show how deeply data and digital concepts are intertwined, and …
When it comes to user research on a topic with lots of unknowns, it can be a challenge to figure out how to begin. For this discovery project, my purpose was to understand how we might improve data science …
We’ve had a lot of great feedback on registers, but by far the most common reaction is a sense of puzzlement over how simple they are, and how minimal the data in each register is. Registers are minimal by design, …
We’ve recently been working with a number of government departments to help them turn their lists into registers. Back in July we started working with the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) on a local authority register. Having progressed …
Back in April we set out our plan for the discovery phase for what we are now calling “data science literacy”. We explained that we were going to undertake user research with civil servants to understand how they use data. …
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