The language of addresses
Addresses are a critical part of our national data infrastructure, but address terminology can be really confusing. We thought it would be useful to explain how we talk about addresses
Data Infrastructure
Tackling address matching together
What’s address matching and why do we need it? Departments, agencies and other service providers will often request and maintain their own address information. However, each organisation will capture slightly different information about an address or may store it in …
Updating the data.gov.uk homepage
We’re making some changes to how the data.gov.uk homepage looks. This will help our users to understand what the site is for, what types of data we have, and how they can search the catalogue. The previous design highlighted open …
Agreeing a common language for registers
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Jen Lambourne, Posted on:
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Data Infrastructure, Government Data Programme, Registers
New words (and dreaded acronyms) are all too common in government. Sometimes they’re words you’ve never heard before, sometimes they’re words you know but which are used in a different way, and sometimes - the worst times - people use …
Writing an introduction to registers
We’ve talked about registers a lot on this blog. We’ve explained why they’re different to other datasets, shown what they can do, and explored how they can link to one another. We’ve also described them in a little more detail …
Our plan for data
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Paul Maltby, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data Infrastructure, Data Leaders, Data Policy, Data Science, Government Data Programme, Making better use of data
After a few years looking after the UK’s efforts on open data and policy innovation I am taking on a new role as Director of Data from within the Government Digital Service in the Cabinet Office.
The work of the government data programme
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Paul Maltby, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data Infrastructure, Data Policy, Data Science, Government Data Programme, Making better use of data, Open Data, Registers
We have formed a new data group in GDS to support a cross-Government Data Programme. The aim of this is to transform how government uses data to drive benefits to citizens: supporting better decision making, digital services, opening data to …
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