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alistairherbert

Mar 6
6 min

D2I news for March: sharing, standards, and a short list of shortlists

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Feb 10
7 min

iNetwork awards finalists

The iNetwork Awards shortlists are out, and we're finalists in the iStandUK category for our Quality Safeguarding Data project in...

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alistairherbert

Jan 20
7 min

D2I news for January: Hiring, learning, and voting...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Dec 20, 2022
6 min

D2I news for December: 3 updated tools, 2 turtle doves, and apprenticeships in the new year...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Nov 17, 2022
5 min

D2I news for November: Briefings, bugs, and benchmarking

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Oct 4, 2022
5 min

D2I news for October: Apprentices / Early help / In-year data / Open house / Upcoming showcase...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Aug 31, 2022
6 min

D2I news for August/September: ChAT charts, collaborative coding, and conversation...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Aug 2, 2022
3 min

Fresh paint

When this website first arrived in 2020, we had a lot of ideas about what Data to Insight might do, and only a little clarity and which...

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alistairherbert

Jul 15, 2022
6 min

D2I news for July: Datasets, documents, and disproportionality...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Jul 11, 2022
2 min

Annual report to all colleagues (2022)

Last September, I wrote a "first year retrospective" report and shared it with everyone involved in D2I. I wanted to play back all the...

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alistairherbert

May 25, 2022
5 min

D2I news for May: Predictions, policy inputs, and parties...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Apr 19, 2022
5 min

D2I news for April: Outcomes and Invitations, Adverts and Awards...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Mar 11, 2022
7 min

D2I news for March: workforce, welcomes, and lots of upcoming work...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Dec 6, 2021
4 min

D2I news for November/December: 903 errors, national datasets, and new colleagues...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Dec 3, 2021
2 min

Quality LAC data from quality Python training

Around the start of this year, we asked for expressions of interest in a project to collaboratively build a data checking tool for the...

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alistairherbert

Oct 15, 2021
6 min

D2I news for October: Predicting, programming, and a pair of new posts...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Aug 18, 2021
5 min

D2I news for August: Anniversaries, amendments, additions and aspirations...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

Jun 18, 2021
5 min

D2I news for June: Downloads, deadlines, and discussions...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As...

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alistairherbert

May 24, 2021
1 min

D2I Case Studies 001: Open Source Data Analysis in Councils

It's not always easy embracing new technologies in a local authority setting, and open source software in particular poses some...

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alistairherbert

May 17, 2021
5 min

D2I news for May: Statutory return season, and other stories...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – Please find below another bundle of news which I hope you’ll find interesting. As always, if you want...

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