Top tips for writing in house style
Keeping our content consistent Research has shown that our users like consistency, from how we present the website visually to…
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Commuting: most people do it, most people hate it. We know men do more of the longer commutes, and our…
Read more on Commuting: a case study on collaboratingSay what you see – the way we write chart titles is changing
What’s the idea? Currently, most of the chart titles used across the ONS are purely statistical, signposting the data within…
Read more on Say what you see – the way we write chart titles is changingMaking better bulletins – let’s start with what we know
Statistical bulletins are a critical part of what we do at the ONS. They are read by more people than…
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In March I was fortunate enough to travel with a colleague to Chicago to participate in the annual NICAR (National…
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Last month I burst out of the ONS bubble and spent a week in a Trinity Mirror newsroom.
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When my colleague Laura Churchill and I joined the ONS editorial team early in 2016, top of our to-do list…
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As a somewhat newbie to the Civil Service, when I first heard the words “ConCon6” it is not surprising that…
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Hipsters, gin and the Basket of Goods…the making of the movie
By Lisa Jones and Tom Davy OK, so it wasn’t a movie, but it had moving images in it, so…
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