As a newcomer to the Data Ethics Committee (DEC), I was unsure what to expect from my first meeting. From being a teacher, through to becoming a head teacher, and ultimately to working as an Essex School Advisor I have …
Data provides the opportunity to generate insight on some of our biggest challenges affecting people in Essex. In the public sector we talk about the potential of joining data held by our organisations to gain valuable new insight about how …
Creating a shared language for data During November we wrapped up our year of events for our professional data network, Be Part Of The Equation, with a final session focusing on Understanding Our Population Through The Data Available Around Us. …
In the age of 'fake news', making accurate, attractive, and informative plots is essential in bridging the gap between people and data. In Part 2 of his blog, Dr Dave Clark, takes us through the possibilities of visualising data using R so that we can tell an impactful story.
Dr Dave Clark, a researcher within the School of Life Sciences and Institute for Analytics and Data Science at the University of Essex answers our challenge: How can I build visualisations that can easily be tuned to different audiences?
Don't worry, we're not here to solve that particular conundrum, instead let's embrace the sentiment in our data philosophy and apply it to our communication. After all the best insight in the world isn’t worth anything if no one can …
Encouraging organisational leaders to “do” data At ecda, we often talk about data analytics being a team activity. As well as analysts, we need experts in information governance, data processing, communications and project management. But we haven’t talked much about the people who …
The next in our series of data networking events takes place on Thursday 23rd September. Find out what we’ll be focusing on and why we think we're better together...
Selecting an appropriate analytical method for your data can be tough! We brought together six analysts from multiple organisations on our recent work to understand behaviours of perpetrators of domestic abuse...
When I first started as a Data Policy Lead, it was rare for a conversation that started about data ethics to end up there. We would start earnestly talking about the ethics of a data related project, but soon realise …