Fail them faster
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.
Playing around with data
The Performance Platform exposes a lot of service data to interested parties, both within government and outside of it. We thought it would be interesting to tap into the platform, pluck out individual pieces of data and present them in …
Dashboard for the Lasting Power of Attorney transaction released
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 …
Latest data on government transactions
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, …
Comparing transactions, step by step
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 …
The Smart Answer Bug
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 …
Data Science in GDS
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 …
Getting up to Standard
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 …
The Performance Platform is recruiting
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 …
The Inside Government dashboard
Following the release of Inside Government, we’re releasing a dashboard to track progress and usage. New departments and organisations will be moving to Inside Government in the coming months. So far there are 17. The dashboard tracks the growth of …
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