The benefits of coding in the open
...This promotes a common culture and way of working when you can see how other teams manage certain issues. Anna Shipman (left) Quite often, teams will make small improvements to...
Digital, Data and Technology
Developing the DfT Digital Data Index
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Alan Rider - former Assisted Digital Lead, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data, Transformation, User research
...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...
Building capability and community through the Government Data Science Partnership
...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...
What you can learn from making data user-centred
...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 Out of date data can lead to a poor service experience.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...
A problem shared is money saved
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Chad Bond - former Deputy Director for Standards Assurance, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Technology, Transformation
...make savings in the heart of government, the lessons learnt can be applied and borrowed to help elsewhere. Whether that may be healthcare or local councils or other areas entirely....
Help us give government better data about 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...
Designing the register creation process
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Martin Jordan – former Head of Service Design, GDS and Tom Hughes - Senior Content Designer, Posted on:
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Data
When designing services or creating content, we always start by thinking about user needs. We create registers in the same way.
Data literacy: helping non-data specialists make the most of data science
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...
An open address register
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Paul Maltby - former Director of Data, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data
The government will provide up to £5 million to develop options for an authoritative address register that is open and freely available.
Discovering the way people work
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Louise Auger and Anna Wojnarowska, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms, Technology
Louise Auger from the Home Office and Anna Wojnarowska from GDS are user researchers who are working together to look at technology transition projects across government.
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