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On Thursday 7 November we hosted Sprint Share in Birmingham, the latest of our Sprint events for people in government to share their experiences of transforming UK digital services. Phil Buckley, GOV.UK Performance Platform Product Manager, also gives an update on …
Today is the election for the next Mayor of New York City. Mike Bloomberg cannot stand for a third term, and there are more than a dozen challengers competing to take his place. Whoever wins, I hope they support the …
This week we released a performance dashboard for the service to get a lasting power of attorney - a complicated transaction which is pushing and pulling our dashboards into new areas. Are you, like me, worried about your ongoing capacity …
Today, we’ve released an updated version of the Transactions Explorer, our tool for publishing performance data for the government’s transactional services. Our list has expanded to include over 700 services, from 17 government departments. For 83 of the biggest services, …
For almost the first time, we are using conversion funnel data to improve government transactions. The comparisons between services are fascinating. When you are browsing books on Amazon, the pages are full of links. Want to see a bigger picture …
It’s the holiday season, and as millions of people head off on their travels the importance of a single source of authoritative and accurate travel advice becomes particularly relevant. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) completed their transition of content …
Last week we released performance dashboards for six Foreign & Commonwealth Office services, including payment for registering births, marriages and deaths abroad.
Back in June, I wrote about the content dashboard which I built to help editors improve content on GOV.UK. In this update, I’d like to give an example of how it has been used by the GDS team to detect …
Last week, Roo Reynolds wrote about how we’ve been improving site search on GOV.UK. Throughout the past couple of months we’ve been analysing our search data to find out more about how people are searching the site. Here are some …
As the first Data Scientist in GDS it's my responsibility to make tools that help our teams extract and communicate insights from the sometimes overwhelming amount of information we collect every day. The position is a new one in GDS …
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
