Dr Dave Clark, a researcher within the School of Life Sciences and Institute for Analytics and Data Science at the University of Essex answers our challenge: How can I build visualisations that can easily be tuned to different audiences?
“How hard can it be?” That is my thought process when I come to approaching new challenges. If I’m able to see others excelling at one thing, I know that with enough time and practice I’ll be able to replicate what they can do. So, when I was asked to create a Power BI dashboard to enable ECC to share the residents’ survey data, “how hard can it be?”, came straight into my head.
Over the last year or so our team has carried out research around Covid-19, mental health, financial struggles, women’s safety and domestic abuse among other things. This has involved participants discussing past traumas and difficult periods they have experienced, which can leave us as researchers often dwelling on those conversations long after they have taken place...
Dashboards are an increasing trend and great for aiding transparency and communicating complex data in a clear and simple format. But creating one can be time consuming! We explore whether it's possible to build a dashboard in a day...
Don't worry, we're not here to solve that particular conundrum, instead let's embrace the sentiment in our data philosophy and apply it to our communication. After all the best insight in the world isn’t worth anything if no one can …
So, first you’re probably thinking, what is Dineq? Well let’s deal with that first. Dineq is a package in R that enables you to run Gini functions. Gini coefficients are traditionally used to look at inequality across income in populations, …
Encouraging organisational leaders to “do” data At ecda, we often talk about data analytics being a team activity. As well as analysts, we need experts in information governance, data processing, communications and project management. But we haven’t talked much about the people who …
The next in our series of data networking events takes place on Thursday 23rd September. Find out what we’ll be focusing on and why we think we're better together...
Elizabeth Wiley shares her experience of participating in the Data Science Accelerator Programme
Through research with employees we found that there are many working parents within ECC who are feeling the pressures of juggling work and home life, and would benefit from some extra support. Our insights informed the development of a group coaching pilot. Evaluating well was key, and we were keen to learn as we go.