ONS @ Civil Servants Showcase
The ONS visited Civil Service Live last week (Weds 29th June in Coventry) where we presented as part of the “Civil…
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With a 235,000-strong following, the ONS Twitter channel is a great avenue for gauging public opinion about our statistics from…
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The start of this sprint led to some quick re-planning following some publishing issues on the 22 and 23 July…
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A lot of the last two sprints have been about fixing things and getting things stable before we start looking…
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ONS has recently published updated research into using web scraping technologies in the calculation of consumer price statistics. Read for…
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At the risk of ruffling a few data vis feathers … no? But there are often occasions when it should….
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The following blog post is written by Rob Davidson. Since my arrival at the ONS 6 months ago, I have…
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The following blog post is from one of our tweeting statisticians, Richard Campbell. I have recently said goodbye to Twitter….
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…to its full potential Last year we launched a data visualisation best practice section on Style.ONS.gov.uk. In an effort to…
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Last year we published a blog about our team of tweeting statisticians. Around this time last year we had 10,…
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