Decoding Discovery
The ‘discovery’ phase of any digital undertaking is vital as it lays the foundation of any successful project. Unfortunately like…
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It is de rigueur for digital teams to have a set of operating principles these days. There is even a…
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One of the things you will hear from agilistas at GDS and further afield is ‘show the thing’. The idea…
Read more on A dashboard for the UK (and other conceits)Blogging to make things open
The Government Digital Service (GDS) have been the catalyst for an awful lot of change in the last five or…
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Time series tweaks We’ve built on the time series work from last sprint, adding support for the new structure to…
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At the moment ONS is having something of a hiring blitz in the digital and technology space — there are currently a…
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ONS has recently published updated research into using web scraping technologies in the calculation of consumer price statistics. Read for…
Read more on What we can do with prices data scraped from the web?Introducing the Big Data team
My name is Jane Naylor and I’m Head of the Big Data team at the ONS. The team was…
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There is a great deal of ‘transformation’ underway at ONS these days — particularly in relation to our digital work. As part…
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Back in the ‘lull’ between the Alpha and Beta projects for the new website Laura and I were lucky enough…
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