Help! What Would You Do?
It’s late on a stormy Friday afternoon, the office is quiet and you are idly checking the travel updates to plan your route home. The forecast for the weekend is not good and your mind has wandered to what films …
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Seeing into the Future: Tales from a Time Traveller
As the season(ality) changes and recommissioning resurfaces, our team often find ourselves being asked to time travel. As analysts, we’re hardly equipped to transcend time and space, but we can make predictions about what the future may look like. With …
Interactive Insights: Essex Residents' Survey Dashboard 2023
Embarking on the creation of the Essex Residents' Survey Dashboard was not just a task; it was a collaborative journey for the Research and Citizen Insight and Data and Analytics teams, driven by a shared commitment to harnessing data for actionable insights and community impact.
Mapping the Digital Divide in Essex - A Digital Exclusion Analysis
As an increasing number of services and day-to-day activities are carried out or delivered online, residents with limited or no access to the internet may find themselves both socially and economically vulnerable. What’s more, research finds that digitally excluded populations …
You're invited to Data Talks
Data Talks is a new virtual showcase for Essex taking place 4 to 6 March 2024. Data Talks brings together a diverse array of public and private sector expertise all with a shared passion for transforming data into actionable insights …
Goodbye 2023, hello 2024.
I’m not a fan of heralding in the New Year, nor committing to new resolutions! However, I do use the occasion as an opportunity to reflect on what we have delivered over the year and start planning key activities for …
Data Talks: Save the dates
4 to 6 March 2024 – Save the dates! Data Talks is a new virtual conference for the public sector, bringing together a diverse array of expertise all with a shared passion for turning data into insight to achieve real …
Our cloud has many silver linings
As we move closer to wrapping up 2023, I find myself in a reflective mood! If you read last week’s blog you’ll have heard from my colleague Lee Burton that we have recently concluded the migration of 800GB of ECC …
Migration to the cloud: A painful journey to a better place.
In what feels like a long time ago now I wrote a blog around how excited I was about the planned migration of our on-premise data environment to the cloud. I was full of hope and dreams, and then we …
From a trickle to a flood
The exponential growth of data in the world, from a few spots of datum to a deep, expansive ocean of 1s and 0s, shows no sign of slowing and is expected to shape the world in ways we are still …