Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don’t get the attention they deserve.

At this month's event, the 27th in our series, the speakers presented  their work in an exciting, quickfire format. Each speaker had eight minutes, followed by eight minutes of questions from the audience.

This month's speakers were:

Tina Mermiri, Head of User & Data Insight at Government Digital Service, on data, trends and change on GOV.UK
Hannah Spiro, Head of Public Attitudes, and Holly Clarke, Public Attitudes Researcher, at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI), on the findings of the CDEI Tracker Survey which monitors changing public attitudes to data and AI
Charles Price, Deputy Director of the Knowledge Assets Team at BEIS, on public sector knowledge asset management
Kathleen Caper, Senior Policy Adviser at the Central Digital and Data Office, on the Data Standards Authority and why data sharing governance is key to its plans.

The event was chaired by Gavin Freeguard, Associate at the Institute for Government.

Find out more about Data Bites: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/data-bites

Data Bites #27: Getting things done with data in government

Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don’t get the attention they deserve.

At this month's event, the 28th in our series, the speakers presented their work in an exciting, quickfire format. Each speaker had eight minutes, followed by eight minutes of questions from the audience.

This month's speakers were:

Alison Pritchard, Deputy National Statistician and Director General for Data Capability, Office for National Statistics, on the Integrated Data Service 
Ed Humpherson, Head of the Office for Statistics Regulation, on how it’s not enough for data to be technically strong, and the need for intelligent transparency based on trustworthiness, quality and value 
Laura Sandys CBE, Chair of the Energy Digitalisation Taskforce, on the case for limited Public Interest Digital Assets
Leanne Summers, Head of AI Strategy at NHS Transformation, on developing a learning health and social care system enabled by data and AI. 

The event was chaired by Gavin Freeguard, Associate at the Institute for Government.

Find out more about Data Bites: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/data-bites

Data Bites #28: Getting things done with data in government

Door - Close And Open

Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don’t get the attention they deserve. Data Bites aims to change that.

This event was the 44th in our series, where the speakers presented their work in an exciting, quickfire format.

Each speaker had eight minutes, followed by eight minutes of questions from the audience. 

This month's speakers were: 

Stan Gilmour, National Risk Technology Lead at the Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser, National Police Chief’s Council, to provide an update from his discussion at Data Bites #8 on the progress towards a Common Data Platform for cross-agency data collaboration in support of public health approaches to serious violence prevention and the potential for wider support to ‘whole of society’ change programmes
Lex Jones, Chief Executive of the Registry Trust, on using better data to make better decisions
Michał Poręba, Head of Profession for Data Architecture and Data Engineering at the Department for Business and Trade, on Data in DDaT: Our Perspective
Jen Woolford, Director of Population Statistics at the Office for National Statistics, on the future of population statistics

The event was chaired by Gavin Freeguard, Associate at the Institute for Government.

Data Bites #44: Getting things done with data in government

Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don’t get the attention they deserve. Data Bites aims to change that.

This event was the 45th in our series, where the speakers presented their work in an exciting, quickfire format.

Each speaker had eight minutes, followed by eight minutes of questions from the audience. 

This month's speakers were: 

Penny Babb, Head of Policy and Standards at the Office for Statistics Regulation, on the review of the Code of Practice for Statistics.
Ian Gordon, Head of Data at Parliament Restoration and Renewal on Data and the Built Environment
Nic Granger, Director of Corporate and Chief Financial Officer at the North Sea Transition Authority and Chair of the Offshore Energy Data Strategy Taskforce, on digitalising offshore energy
Kaveh Jahanshahi, Lead Data Scientist at the ONS Data Science Campus, on estimation of travel to work matrices

The event was chaired by Gavin Freeguard, Associate at the Institute for Government.

Data Bites #45: Getting things done with data in government

Tim Davies from Practical Participation, talks about the benefits of data visualisation tools for children and youth research projects.

Produced for Young Digital, a project about digital media in research with children and young people: http://www.youngdigital.net/

Tim Davies - Data visualisation of youth research

An album by Tomi Kauppinen on four insights for creating information visualisations: the roles of stories, time, space and theme.

Podcast episode / track 1: stories
Podcast episode / Track 2: time
Podcast episode / Track 3: space
Podcast episode / Track 4: theme

Information visualisation: the roles of stories, time, space and theme

Infoviz: Theme

Infoviz: Space

Infoviz: Time

Part of an album by Tomi Kauppinen on four insights for creating information visualisations: the roles of stories, time, space and theme.

Podcast episode / track 1: stories
Podcast episode / Track 2: time
Podcast episode / Track 3: space
Podcast episode / Track 4: theme

Infoviz: Time

Infoviz: Stories

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