ONS website updates: 14 May 2019
It has been a little while since one of these, but I wanted to do any update on some of…
Read more on ONS website updates: 14 May 2019Nana’s New Hip
Yesterday morning, the Digital Women Wales network met at an event in Cardiff to talk about ‘A Woman’s Place is…
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Have you ever wondered how a blind person reads their post? How someone with reduced mobility in their hands uses…
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NOTE: This study has now ended and we are no longer looking for recruits. Thanks to those who participated. This…
Read more on Help improve the way we ask questions in our surveysPerformance analysts – what are they?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is full of data, and full of people analysing it. But being a performance…
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Last week was my first week as Delivery Support Officer in the Digital Practice team. As we are all aware,…
Read more on My first week in Delivery SupportSay 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 changingWhat is a Product Owner?
When I tell people I’m a Product Owner, I’m often met with confused faces and a few questions – “a…
Read more on What is a Product Owner?The Digital Publishing technology stack – Part 3: Our frontend systems
In part one we looked at our hosting platform and how we build, deploy and manage services in our test…
Read more on The Digital Publishing technology stack – Part 3: Our frontend systemsHow can we use explorers to make better statistics, better decisions?
It’s tempting to think that if only we allow users to explore our data, they’ll understand it better. Build an…
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