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alistairherbert

Aug 2
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
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
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
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
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
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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alistairherbert

Apr 8, 2021
5 min

D2I news for April: changes, charts, and collaborations...

Dear Data to Insight colleagues – This is the first Data to Insight newsletter addressed to www.datatoinsight.org site members. If you’re...

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alistairherbert

Mar 2, 2021
4 min

D2I news for March: modelling demand, moving home, and more...

Dear all ChAT group members – As Data to Insight Manager, I’m here to support development of our data tools and the communities we form...

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alistairherbert

Jan 18, 2021
5 min

D2I news for January: analysis, apprenticeships, and awards...

Dear all ChAT group members – As Data to Insight Manager, I’m here to support development of our data tools and the communities we form...

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alistairherbert

Dec 14, 2020
3 min

New tricks

The most significant weakness I can see in the Data to Insight toolkit is also a fundamental strength: all of our tools run in Microsoft...

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alistairherbert

Dec 7, 2020
1 min

MHCLG C-19 Challenge Showcase - what we said

Last week we reported back on the learning from our Demand Modelling Tool work, via the MHCLG "C-19 Challenge Showcase" event -- you can...

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alistairherbert

Nov 26, 2020
4 min

D2I news for November: new DfE data, new website, and more...

Dear all ChAT group members – As Data to Insight Manager, this year I’ll be leading on support and development for the data tools we...

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alistairherbert

Nov 23, 2020
2 min

Moving home

I've just published the first live iteration of www.datatoinsight.org which we hope will serve as our home for the foreseeable future. I...

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