How TfL is using data science to reduce station overcrowding and closures
Bringing ticketing and train movement data together can help TfL keep London’s Tube moving at the busiest times.
Archive: Analytics planning and data analysis
Department for Transport set to invest in green tech, open data and airport efficiency
The Department for Transport has made a slew of announcements in recent days regarding the use of tech to improve British transport networks.
QR codes help Watford Borough Council prove voter identity
With the Voter ID scheme still set to be law by 2022, do local government election managers need to start evaluating the best tech options now?
Civil society groups warn government on data failings - “stop choosing ignorance”
In an open letter to the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the civil society groups want government to take data strategy seriously.
Houston, we don’t have a problem - Understanding sentiment in space with NASA
NASA says graph is proving an ideal tool for helping improve astronaut experience on the International Space Station
Cleveland Police turns to Experian to create a single view of residents
Cleveland Police Force says data services provider Experian helped it eradicate its very high number of duplicate and incomplete records.
Food Standards Agency Director of Openness, Data and Digital - Using data to improve the nation’s health
A data focus is preventing poor quality food entering the UK food chain, Julie Pierce tells diginomica/government
Glasgow improves subway management with Infor as part of £288 million transport modernisation project
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport upgrades to Infor’s cloud-based EAM tool to get better insights into its subway management. It hopes that the technology will allow it to move to predictive maintenance.
Government and railway industry seek to improve customer experience through use of data
The Rail Delivery Group and the Department for Transport have issued a joint action plan on how opening up data and working with the technology industry could provide users with an improved end-to-end experience.
Department for Work and Pensions beefs up senior data roles to create in-house ‘Data Garage’
DWP is hiring a new Head of Data Strategy and a Head of Data Transformation, as it aims to figure out how it can use data and new technologies to become more user focused.
Bloomberg Philanthropies certifies nine U.S. cities best at improving lives through data
Bloomberg Philanthropies has certified the first 9 cities in its pioneering What Works Cities standard-making effort to measure how well cities incorporate data and evidence into their decision-making processes.
LiveStories makes civic data accessible with data visualization
Big data analytics has been a key enabler of business decision-making for years but local governments have generally lagged behind. LiveStories aims to change that. Here's how.
Radiologists are often in short supply and overworked - deep learning to the rescue
Deep learning has numerous applications in medicine. We examine just one area, radiology, where DL is allowing for the reaping of low hanging fruit.