This blog is now archived
This blog is now archived
This blog is no longer being updated. If you're interested in how we're using performance analysis and data science in government, read about it on the cross-government data blog.
Troubled Families and the Digital Economy Bill
Posted by:
Sarah Henry, Posted on:
-
Categories:
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 …
Data Science Accelerator - the Sheffield 'hub'
Part of my role leading DWP’s Sheffield data science team is working on the Data Science Accelerator scheme with GDS. We’ve now run two successful cohorts from here, and I’m looking forward to continuing with this success as the programme …
Comparing registers with other data products
...and foreign key constraints as links between registers. However, relational databases do not provide the ability to link between registers run by different organisations - you can’t have a foreign...
Technical features of a register
On the registers team, we are building a product that provides teams with data that is good enough to build services on. Registers are defined by certain characteristics such as...
Meet the custodian of the beta local authority England register
...enforcing the registers approach (always welcome when heartfelt) and in challenging the register’s shape and contents. I received over 30 comments from 9 organisations in the public and private sectors,...
How registers emerge
...of the Registers Design Authority is to devise the service and standards to enable a large number of custodians to establish registers. We also assure registers’ compliance with these standards....
What we’ve learnt so far about how users find and use data
We recently shared what we've learned so far about how government data is published. This has already helped us think about how we can improve the way we do this, but we still want to know more about users at …
Open data, open working, open government
Last month the Open Government Partnership (OGP) celebrated its fifth birthday in the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York. It was an exciting milestone for an organisation which has grown over five short years from an ambitious …
Introducing the register history page: tracking a register’s creation
A few months ago, we published some guidance on GOV.UK that explains how registers are created. We did this to meet what was a previously unfulfilled user need. We often...
Meet the custodian: alpha territory register
...(FCO) second register - the territory register - is now in alpha too. The territory register’s custodian, Tony Worron, has kindly shared his experience of going through the register creation...
Recent Comments