Essex County Fire and Rescue Service Migration to Microsoft Fabric – Fab or Drab?
Guest blogger, Rob Ellis, from Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, shares the organisation's migration to Microsoft Fabric.
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We chose the Birkenstocks! The key lessons we learned from redesigning the Essex Area Profiles dashboard
I was embarrassingly late to the ‘Barbie’ bandwagon. In 2023 everybody seemed to be doing the “Barbenheimer” challenge, but I resented the idea of paying to see a film that would inevitably end up on a streaming service, so I …
Assessing the Cost-of-Living Pressures on Our Residents – Part 1
We’ve all noticed increasing financial pressures in the shops, in our bills, and in all aspects of life over the past few years. It can often feel like every time we tune in to the news there is some worrying …
A look at Foster Carer Recruitment Inside and Out
How do you ensure that your recruitment approaches are reaching the right people? How do you know whether there is anything internally that you could do differently to increase recruitment? These are questions that every service, company or team will …
Essex Residents' Survey Reports & Dashboard 2024 - Knowing Our Residents
With another resident survey coming to a conclusion, the door for creating a new blog post emerged. Now, let’s open up word before piling my sentences through copilot (AI might be a focus in here…) Here’s the cheeky plug to …
Paving the Way: Supporting planning for Healthy School Streets
Someone recently pointed out to me that it’s been 4,261 days since I first started at Essex County Council (pause for shocked gasps). So, it’s been a while since I’ve thought much about my days walking to school. Or at …
Prevent, Reduce, Delay: Encouraging Referrals for Frail Patients to Enable Proactive Intervention in North East Essex
Imagine a street. This street has a hundred residents all aged over 65. Now imagine the next street over. This street has a hundred residents aged 85 and over. How many of the residents of these two streets do you …
The Sims’ Path to Data Mastery: From Simulations to Solutions
Dan Fitzgerald and Connie Becker, Analysts within ECC’s Data and Analytics team, reflect on their recent experiences developing new skills… Were you one of those kids that spent hours playing The Sims in the past? If so, this is definitely …
Using Data to Shore our Defences
This year there have been global news reports of water everywhere – and not a drop we'd like to see creeping into our homes (even if some of us may like a little beach activity)! Flooding is no joke - …
Harnessing linked data to better manage frailty in North East Essex
Nerdy fact alert, but did you know that frailty is classified as a “syndrome” rather than a disease? Diseases typically have a known cause, a distinct course, and an established pathway of care. In contrast, syndromes like frailty generally don’t …