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Data Bites #45: Getting things done with data in government

In an exciting, quickfire format, each speaker had eight minutes to present on data in government.

Penny Babb, Head of Policy and Standards at the Office for Statistics Regulation, presenting her work on the review of the Code of Practice for Statistics.
Penny Babb (right), Head of Policy and Standards at the Office for Statistics Regulation, presented her work on the review of the Code of Practice for Statistics.

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Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don’t get the attention they deserve. Data Bites aims to change that.

This event was the 45th in our series, where the speakers presented their work in an exciting, quickfire format.

Each speaker had eight minutes, followed by eight minutes of questions from the audience. 

This month's speakers were: 

  • Penny Babb, Head of Policy and Standards at the Office for Statistics Regulation, on the review of the Code of Practice for Statistics.
  • Ian Gordon, Head of Data at Parliament Restoration and Renewal on Data and the Built Environment
  • Nic Granger, Director of Corporate and Chief Financial Officer at the North Sea Transition Authority and Chair of the Offshore Energy Data Strategy Taskforce, on digitalising offshore energy
  • Kaveh Jahanshahi, Lead Data Scientist at the ONS Data Science Campus, on estimation of travel to work matrices

The event was chaired by Gavin Freeguard, Associate at the Institute for Government.

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