Last week I published some open data publishing principles that can inform further development of the Data Discovery Alpha. This week I’ve begun turning those principles into actionable recommendations.
Read more on Describing ONS datasets with standard vocabulariesOne of the founder members of the visual.ONS team has moved on to pastures new. Hannah Thomas has been an integral part of the team, which has pushed the boundaries of data visualisation. Here she writes about her time at ONS. We will miss you StatsHan!
Read more on So long and thanks for all the stats!Our last sprint saw the long-awaited arrival of our performance dashboard. It’s been a bit of a journey to get to this stage. Most performance platforms are based on transactional services: those with a, largely, fixed start and end point. For me, the challenge was working out how we measure our non-transactional service.
Read more on Introducing our new performance dashboardThis week I’ve started working with the Digital Publishing team at the ONS. They’re currently hard at work on the Data Discovery Alpha exploring how to better support users in finding and accessing datasets.
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Well then. As is only right and normal at the end of a year, it is time to look back at a year in the life of Digital Publishing. It has been a big year for us here in ONS. We launched our new site in February. We also saw a bunch of people move on to new projects and recruited some very talented people to help us ensure we continue to improve everything we do.
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We like to create content specifically for our followers on social media and the Christmas period is the perfect time to pull out interesting stats that may be overlooked throughout the year.
Read more on 24 days of Christmas-related statsWe have mentioned our Data Discovery Alpha a few times in ONS Digital posts over the last few weeks, so I thought it would be useful to put together a little bit of an overview of the work we have done so far and why this is so important to our corporate website.
Read more on Data Discovery Alpha: An OverviewThe following blog post is written by Alison Davies, user researcher. User testing is featuring heavily as part of the Data…
Read more on Data Road TripThe Autumn Statement was on 23 November and once again, we decided to tweet our statistics during the speech. We…
Read more on Tweeting along to the Autumn StatementPublishing statistics is a tricky business. ONS is constantly marrying the absolute requirement for statistical accuracy with communicating our key…
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