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Broadening discovery: exploring possibilities for active transport planning
Why restrict ourselves to better versions of today? Luke Radford describes how discovery could consider better outcomes for the future.
Supporting local authorities using data to improve transport
How can we use data to improve services and reduce costs? Matt Coleman reports on the latest Transport Data Initiative event.
The power of diversity: International Women’s Day at DfT
Jo Moorshead, DfT's Head of Knowledge & Information, reveals some of the stories and insights shared at our IWD event last month
International Women’s Day: women in digital roles
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2019, we asked 6 colleagues in digital, data and technology roles to tell us about their work.
The future is Google Cloudy for DfT: the transformation of LENNON
Find out how the cloud has helped our rail analysts reduce query times from hours to seconds
Introducing the Developing Data Unit – come and join us!
Find out about DfT's new data team - what they do and how you could get involved
The Inaugural DfT Group DDaT Conference: why we did it, what happened and how to run your own
Earlier this month, we ran the first ever DfT Group Digital, Data & Technology (DDaT) Profession Conference. Not only that, but it was an ‘unconference’.
Virtual Raility: usability testing a virtual reality training experience
DfT’s Rail Knowledge Management Team recently approached the Lab for help with a problem: new DfT employees needed to understand the complexities of the rail system.
Experience is what you get instead of what you wanted
In my previous Blog, Applying data science to policy, I talked about our first attempt at developing a data science software application to automate some painful parts of the policy consultation process. I alluded to challenges we faced and the …