Mindset Challenge (the 'art' of the probable)
A picture tells a thousand words......
Data and Analytics Team
"Your mission should you choose to accept it..." We accept the challenge!
On 15th March, we attended the Greater London Authority’s Data Surgery for Civil Society organisations at City Hall.
A Data Expedition: How Data can be a Team Sport
A few weeks back members from the Data & Analytics and Research & Citizen insight team attended their first ever ‘data expedition’ which was hosted in partnership by the Greater London Authority & 360Giving.
Essex Innovates or; "How we learned to stop worrying and love analytics...... Part 1"
Essex Innovates is an exciting project aiming to transform the intelligence workforce across the whole of Essex. The aspiration of Essex Partners is “to make Essex national leaders using the power of data science and artificial intelligence to tackle public policy challenges”.
7 Day Challenge: Demand Modelling and Agile Working
Data and analytics have just finished a 7 day challenge using agile working approaches to think about new ways of supporting the current conversations around Adult Social Care demand and budgeting and to develop a new tool to facilitate these discussions.
Summer learning....... had me a blast
In July, Data & Analytics were invited to the Big Data and Analytics Summer School organised by the Institute for Analytics and Data Science, held at the University of Essex in Colchester. Four members of the team went along for various courses across the two weeks, and all came away with some really valuable experiences and knowledge
How Big Data becomes Big Intelligence
We live in a world where data exists everywhere. In 2016 it was estimated that 90% of the data that existed had been generated in the previous 2 years. But how can we make the most of this data-rich environment? That is the role of the Data & Analytics team.
Welcome to the Insight Blog
Good day to all and welcome to the home of Insight. This is an outlet for Essex County Council's Analytics and Research teams to share their wisdom, their world, and their wonderful work. We'll begin by telling you a little bit about ourselves...