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·1 day ago

1 July 2022

Bits It was inevitable that the government would publish its response to its Data: A new direction consultation shortly after I pressed send on this newsletter a couple of weeks ago. (Not the Data Reform Bill itself, as some briefing had it — date to be determined.) …

Data

11 min read

1 July 2022
1 July 2022

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·Jun 17

17 June 2022

Keep the FOIA burning Four months after asking the Cabinet Office for a list of Cabinet committees and their membership, I finally received an answer. For those of you following the saga, you will be shocked — SHOCKED — to learn that answer was no. My Twitter thread details the whole thing, including the…

Data

7 min read

17 June 2022
17 June 2022

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·Jun 10

10 June 2022

Learning to count They say the first rule of politics is learning to count. This usually refers to whether you have enough votes to get something through, and is more difficult than it might appear — the only vote you can ever be absolutely certain of is your own. But it’s also surprisingly…

Data

10 min read

10 June 2022
10 June 2022

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·May 27

27 May 2022

Open chart surgery I’ve written a few times about people not using 100% bar charts when they should really think about using 100% bar charts. This week, let’s take a look at the opposite — when using a normal bar chart may have been the better choice. I happened to spot this example…

Data

14 min read

27 May 2022
27 May 2022

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·May 13

13 May 2022

Speech therapy As expected, the Queen’s Speech heralded a new Data Reform Bill. We’re still waiting for most of the detail, though it sticks closely to the contents of the Data: A New Direction consultation. It seems the response to that consultation will be published shortly, followed by bill text before the…

Data

9 min read

13 May 2022
13 May 2022

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·May 6

6 May 2022

Short and sweet This week’s list of links is again a bit shorter (/more manageable) than usual thanks to the bank holiday in the UK — said bank holiday also making this week feel much busier as I had various events to chair. So I’ll keep the intro short as well: Catch up…

Data

6 min read

6 May 2022
6 May 2022

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·Apr 29

29 April 2022

Relight my FOIA The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) has this morning published its report into the Cabinet Office’s Freedom of Information Clearing House. (I gave evidence back in the autumn.) ‘Damning’ would be a fair description. It’s concerned at the lack of transparency around the Clearing House and its record…

Data

8 min read

29 April 2022
29 April 2022

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·Apr 22

22 April 2022

Easter parade The Easter break means fewer links, so this week’s Warning: Graphic Content is shorter than usual (some might even say of an actually readable length). So let’s get straight to it — after a few bits and pieces: Data Bites will be a cyber/defence special on Wednesday 4 May —…

Data

5 min read

22 April 2022
22 April 2022

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·Apr 14

14 April 2022

Happy Easter! Yes, that headline does show I’m struggling to come up with a pun on ‘literacy’ for my new report with the ODI, ‘Data literacy and the UK government’, thank you for asking. There’s a summary here — and references to Blackadder and Frasier here — but I hope you’ll find…

Data

9 min read

14 April 2022
14 April 2022

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·Apr 1

1 April 2022

Bits and Bites BREAKING: You may remember my rant about the government not releasing basic information about Cabinet Committees in response to a Freedom of Information request a couple of weeks ago. …

Data

10 min read

1 April 2022
1 April 2022
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