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Moving the dial for International Women's Day

Posted by: Skye MacLeod, cyber security manager, Posted on: 2 March 2020 - Categories: Data, Technology, Women in Digital
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Celebrating the women driving forward digital, data and tech change across the DfT family.

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The power of diversity: International Women’s Day at DfT

Posted by: Jo Moorshead, Head of Knowledge Information Management, Posted on: 3 April 2019 - Categories: Digital, Women in Digital
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Jo Moorshead, DfT's Head of Knowledge & Information, reveals some of the stories and insights shared at our IWD event last month

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The future is Google Cloudy for DfT: the transformation of LENNON

Posted by: Luke Radford, Head of CIO Advisory, Posted on: 26 February 2019 - Categories: Data, Digital, Transformation
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Find out how the cloud has helped our rail analysts reduce query times from hours to seconds

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Introducing the Developing Data Unit – come and join us!

Posted by: Giuseppe Sollazzo, Head of the Developing Data Unit, Posted on: 11 February 2019 - Categories: Data, Digital, Open Data, Transformation
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Find out about DfT's new data team - what they do and how you could get involved

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Teaching computers to read

Posted by: Will Bowditch, Data Scientist, Data Science Team, Department for Transport, Posted on: 30 August 2018 - Categories: Data Science, Digital, Open Data
computer reading news

...put HALF a Mini car at top of the 'Nuneaton nipple' - but why?” Coventry Live “Drivers are angry at queues of 'more than two hours' to get out of...

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Voyage of discovery: port freight statistics

Posted by: Steven Sampson-Jones, Delivery Manager, Digital Service, Department for Transport, Posted on: 26 July 2018 - Categories: Digital, Service Design, User Research
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...be top of their priority list, there are frustrations with the existing process. This suggests opportunities to reduce the burden, even if we can’t remove it completely. The website that...

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Can you digit: Crossrail’s data-driven project delivery

Posted by: Rob Best, DfT Information Risk Policy Team, Posted on: 18 August 2017 - Categories: Data, Transformation
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The Crossrail programme is putting data at the heart of managing an enormous engineering project.

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DfT Hacks: our first external hackathon

Posted by: Tom Ewing, Principal Data Scientist, Department for Transport, Posted on: 6 April 2017 - Categories: Data, Digital, Service Design
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A hackathon is an event where problems and challenges are solved innovatively, using data and technology.

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Findings from our data discovery

Posted by: Doug Linssen, Digital Fast Streamer, Posted on: 6 February 2017 - Categories: Agile delivery, Data, Transformation, User Research
drawings of four people with a name by each one

We recently blogged about the start of our project to see if we could create an index for our data to make it easier to find and use.

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Station to Station: passenger information trials at London Bridge

Posted by: Andrew Hutton, Network Rail lead development manager, London Bridge station, Posted on: 17 January 2017 - Categories: Digital
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The rebuild of London Bridge station, as part of the Thameslink Programme, presented us with a great opportunity to try out some new ways of helping people find their way around a busy station.

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