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We enjoy talking about data. In fact, we enjoy talking about it so much we have two blogs on the subject: Data in Government (this blog) and Data at GDS. To date we’ve used the Data at GDS blog to …
Government Data Programme
How we describe Data Infrastructure products and services
The Data Infrastructure team has done a lot of work lately to improve the way we talk about our products and services. One of the ways we’ve done this is by defining the terms we use to describe the things …
The register of schools in England goes into alpha
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Richard Vale, Posted on:
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Data Infrastructure, Government Data Programme, Registers
Last year the Data Leaders Network proposed that education should be one of the five areas we should focus on in developing the first tranche of registers. School-related data in particular is widely used, by a large and varied number …
Troubled Families and the Digital Economy Bill
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Sarah Henry, Posted on:
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Data Sharing, Government Data Programme, Making better use of data, Policy, Public Service
Sarah Henry, GM Connect, Manchester City Council Life is complicated; for some, extremely so. Although no two stories are alike, there are some tell-tale signs that individuals or families are struggling. Imagine poverty and hardship, struggle paying bills and rent …
Government ICT 2.0 conference: How does data fit with digital?
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 …
Getting the most out of in-depth interviews for data science literacy
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 …
Ideas to help civil servants understand the opportunities of data
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Ed Parkes, Posted on:
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Data Science, Government Data Programme, Making better use of data
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. …
Discovering how data is published
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Louise Petre and Maria Izquierdo, Posted on:
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Data Infrastructure, Data.gov.uk, Government Data Programme
Data.gov.uk is undergoing a discovery phase. We’re doing this because user feedback and our previous research suggests that it’s not easy to find and use data on the site. We need to understand why this is. It's a big challenge and …
API First at data.gov.uk
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Ross Jones, Posted on:
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Data Infrastructure, Government Data Programme, Open Data
There is a lot of talk about APIs in government right now, and how they affect the work we are doing at GDS. We thought it was worth sharing how we approach APIs when it comes to data.gov.uk. Data.gov.uk is …
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
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