Using data for content design
As content designer for the ONS website, I’m responsible for making sure that the content we publish meets the needs…
Read moreGetting ONS social surveys online
The following blog post is written by Andrew Phelps from our Social Surveys Transformation team. Getting ONS social surveys online…
Read moreBet your bottom dollar, you’ll lose the blues in Chicago
In March I was fortunate enough to travel with a colleague to Chicago to participate in the annual NICAR (National…
Read moreA data literacy scale?
Is is possible to create a data literacy scale modelled on the GDS digital literacy scale? I think it might…
Read moreRising to the challenge of communicating statistics to the wider public
As Visual.ONS closes down and moves to the main ONS website, we wanted to reflect on the challenges we’ve faced…
Read moreThree years of Visual.ONS – what we’ve learned
Visual.ONS is coming out of Beta and we’re moving home
In January 2015 we launched a Beta called Visual.ONS – a companion website to help us learn how better to…
Read moreFive things I learned from working on Customise My Data
(or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the lower layer super output area) The Welsh language word for…
Read moreSprint notes – CMD Beta – Sprint 15
Hello First up, I missed a sprint. It was Christmas. I was eating chocolates and feeling ill. Sorry. To…
Read moreHow to customise an embedded interactive
The 2017 Family Spending data was released today. For the past three years the bulletin has been accompanied by an…
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