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From fridge yetis to real results: how the HMRC app is helping people take control of their money and tax

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From fridge yetis to real results: how the HMRC app is helping people take control of their money and tax

HMRC’s Transformation Roadmap sets out a clear ambition: to make everyday tax interactions simpler and more intuitive to meet customer needs. The increased traffic to the HMRC app this year reflects HMRC’s longer‑term ambition to make it easier for customers …

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The signal and the noise

Posted by: Henry Hadlow, Posted on: 13 October 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

We've been looking into how to reduce the amount of noise on our graphs. Daily data often shows a lot of random fluctuation, especially since sample sizes are very low for small transactions. We're going to switch to weekly averages …

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Sprint notes: scoping out user need dashboards

Posted by: Rosalie Marshall, Posted on: 7 October 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

Sprint: 19 September to 2 October This sprint we’ve been investigating a new prototype dashboard that will help government service teams monitor how they are meeting user needs. The User Need Dashboard will pull together a mix of data from …

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Sprint notes: passing our Service Standard

Posted by: Rosalie Marshall, Posted on: 12 September 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

Sprint: 22 August to 4 September - The Performance Platform is now in public beta, having passed our Service Standard Assessment on the 27 August. While this sprint has been one of celebration, it has also been one of hard-core …

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Another performance dashboard for local government

Posted by: Matt Harrington, Posted on: 8 September 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

...phone line. Assessing whether this communication channel is effective could be a point of further investigation for the council. Solihull Council chief information officer, Steve Halliday, has blogged about further...

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A refreshing change: helping the Performance Platform deliver

Posted by: Jen Oliver, Posted on: 1 September 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

The Performance Platform team is growing. We've recently hired a new service manager, programme delivery manager, and a couple of new delivery managers. As one of those newbies, I thought I'd share my first impressions of the platform with you. …

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What does it all mean?

Posted by: David Wilks, Posted on: 28 August 2014 - Categories: Data science

The UK runs lots of public consultations – over 500 since January!

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Sprint notes, 8 August to 21 August

Posted by: Rosalie Marshall, Posted on: 22 August 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

We’ve been hard at work this sprint. We’ve added new features to dashboards, while gearing up for our Service Standard Public Beta Assessment on the 27 August. Passing this assessment will give us permission from the Government Digital Service to …

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Anomaly detection: a machine learning approach

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 15 August 2014 - Categories: Data science, Performance Platform

Despite the current overhyped status of the internet of things, real-time and near real-time data is an important topic in both the private and public sectors. Whether the data is...

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Ambassador Twitter Networks

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 15 August 2014 - Categories: Data science, Performance Platform

...Node size reflects account importance: typically weighted by either incoming connections/followers or eigenvalue centrality which reflects how well connected an individual is to parts of the network with greatest connectivity....

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Exploring fire brigade performance data

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 14 August 2014 - Categories: Data science

...the live version can be found on the prototypes page. A dashboard of sorts The underlying hosting and back-end infrastructure of this prototype is similar to that of the river...

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