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Fail them faster

Posted by: Tom Adams, Posted on: 21 July 2015 - Categories: Content design, Data, GOV.UK
Road Closed sign

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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Playing around with data

Posted by: Mat Johnson, Posted on: 18 November 2013 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK

...the “web platform” as opposed to anything else. Design and sketching was done in code for speed. Google Chrome running in fullscreen mode displays the Heroku page when a connection...

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Dashboard for the Lasting Power of Attorney transaction released

Posted by: philbuckley5, Posted on: 18 October 2013 - Categories: Data

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 …

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Latest data on government transactions

Posted by: Clifford Sheppard, Posted on: 12 September 2013 - Categories: Data

...been rewritten as a static site generated with Python, with some front-end functionality provided by JavaScript. As with most GDS products, the code is open-source and freely available on GitHub....

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Comparing transactions, step by step

Posted by: philbuckley5, Posted on: 9 September 2013 - Categories: Data

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 …

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The Smart Answer Bug

Posted by: Dan Collins, Posted on: 31 July 2013 - Categories: Data, GDS team

...check whether any code issues were present in that particular release. The reason behind the second point is a little more subtle. In general, the engagement should be independent of...

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Data Science in GDS

Posted by: Dan Collins, Posted on: 24 June 2013 - Categories: Data, GDS team

...products. GOV.UK Content Dashboard With this in mind, I created an internal dashboard primarily focused on the needs of product managers and content designers here in GDS. These people need...

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Getting up to Standard

Posted by: Richard Sargent, Posted on: 7 June 2013 - Categories: Service design, Transformation

The Government Digital Strategy says that all new or redesigned digital services will meet the Digital by Default Service Standard from April 2014. Before then, GDS is using the standard to support the Cabinet Office spending controls, to deepen knowledge of …

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The Performance Platform is recruiting

Posted by: memattharrington, Posted on: 18 February 2013 - Categories: Data, GDS team

Last summer we built a prototype of a tool designed to help departments make better use of their data to improve public services. In October that prototype became the first GOV.UK dashboard and by December a second dashboard had been …

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The Inside Government dashboard

Posted by: Edward Horsford, Posted on: 9 January 2013 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK

...expecting an increase in traffic over the coming months, but each department is unique so this increase won’t always be the same. Top policies Top policies viewed on Inside Government...

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