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...data to improve services. They are investigating whether they can develop an approach to predicting risk which might enable early intervention. Liz Ridler, Delivery and Evaluation Lead in Public Service...
...prototypes and operational proofs of concept using the GDS frontend toolkit. These helped us test functionality and determine if the service was technically viable. We developed an operating model to...
...Prisons and Probations Service has taken to set up data science and analytics capability. Our colleagues from Defence Science and Technology Laboratory spoke about how they’re embracing open source and...
...difficult to keep it up to date. Out of date data can lead to a poor service experience. So data specialists advocate fetching data from reliable sources using automated services...
...identified 3 main useful metrics: the breakdown of transactions per channel, the number of unique users for a service, and the reason a user contacts a service or has to...
When designing services or creating content, we always start by thinking about user needs. We create registers in the same way.
Data science techniques at the heart of government transformation Data literacy has a vital role to play in developing government policy and in delivering services that meet the needs of...
The government will provide up to £5 million to develop options for an authoritative address register that is open and freely available.
...and Government Innovation in the Cabinet Office since 2013, and is now leading the data workstream at GDS. His name will ring bells with anyone who’s worked in the data...
The other day, while driving along a local shortcut, I was faced with a ‘road closed’ sign and had to u-turn. Beyond the sign, there was no road where road had been yesterday.
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