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Help us give government better data about services

Posted by: Roxanne Asadi, Posted on: 31 October 2016 - Categories: Data, Service design
Front page of the prototype

...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...

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Releasing all the things: a good day for the Performance Platform

Posted by: memattharrington, Posted on: 14 May 2014 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK
Performance Platform and Transaction Explorer overview dashboards GOV.UK

Yesterday we released 83 dashboards. We wouldn’t normally plan to release like this.

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The Performance Platform: open for business

Posted by: Richard Sargent, Posted on: 7 April 2014 - Categories: Data
Performance Platform service availability

The Performance Platform is a tool for government to answer the question ‘how are we doing?’. At present, the important facts are not accessible to the right people, at the right time, in the right way.

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Digital marches on: rising take-up, falling costs

Posted by: Richard Sargent, Posted on: 2 April 2014 - Categories: Data, Digital strategy
Cost per transaction down 10% in real terms

The Transactions Explorer has enabled government to track progress on its key performance indicators for the first time.

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GDS this week: Sprint Share and Performance Platform update

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 12 November 2013 - Categories: Data, GDS team

...when we come out of our offices and go to meet other departments, they've got some very similar issues. It allows you to share in some of others' successes and...

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Walking the talk in New York

Posted by: Richard Sargent, Posted on: 5 November 2013 - Categories: Data, GDS team

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 …

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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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Licensing dashboards launch on the Performance Platform

Posted by: philbuckley5, Posted on: 16 May 2013 - Categories: Data

Phil Buckley, Product Manager of the Performance Platform, writes: I’m very proud to announce the latest release of the Performance Platform. Building on the performance statistics we have for GOV.UK, this release powers the dashboards for all the different Licences, …

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