As year one of the Essex Centre for Data Analytics (ecda) draws to a close, I find myself pausing to reflect on the past 12 months. Earlier in July, ecda published a video that highlighted some of our successes from …
I’m partial to a board game, my prowess at Cluedo is well known among my nearest and dearest. I think analytics is a bit like a detective game - stitching together the clues, refining the key lines of questioning, ruling …
Over the course of the lockdown, I have seen a lot of people posting on MySpace and Bebo (other social media platforms are available, but if it was good enough for 2006 it’s good enough for me) about how they …
Sharing insight and intelligence that helps our county to plan, prioritise and shape our understanding of community needs has always been important to us. As part of our collaborative data efforts we have launched a new Open Data COVID-19 risk …
Back in, what feels like, the distant past when we could all go out to the pub and the news wasn’t exclusively about Coronavirus I entered an NHS data visualisation competition. Now obviously the NHS has a fair bit going …
Never has data been more in need. Over the past three weeks we have been working tirelessly to identify the needs of our residents, react to the needs of our organisations and support partners as we all work together to …
Happy International Open Data Day (Saturday 7th March)!! To celebrate all things open data I’m going to bring you up to speed on what we’ve been doing here at Essex County Council. We have a great Open Data team at …
If I had a pound every time someone said to me “Tom, working in the partnership space must be very exciting and fun and you must love it”, I wouldn’t be all that much richer. That’s why I’ve decided to …
“An interview is just having a chat with someone, right? Anyone can do that.”
As researchers, whether it’s an interview, focus group, or even a survey, we put a lot of work into developing the research objectives, crafting the questions, and planning something which sets the right tone...
“Don’t believe everything you read in the papers” is a quote often heard throughout society whether it be a piece of celebrity gossip or a hard-to-believe factual article. But is there any value in using information from newspapers, magazines or websites to help understand work or a topic you are about to start?
As sure as eggs is eggs, every person reading this is one year older than they were last year. We all have birthdays. And this is the 1st birthday for this blog. And to begin with I’d like to talk …