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What percentage of over 80s in Wales have been vaccinated against COVID-19? How many 30 to 39 year olds in Wales haven’t received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccination? These and similar questions can be answered in different ways.
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We’ve reopened our recruitment for Cyber Security analysts to help us enhance our capacity in this area. Closing date is 1 October 2021.
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In July 2021 Welsh Government held its first UX Week, a week of events on the topics of user experience and user centred design. We know what you’re thinking – what is user experience and why did you want to run a week-long event on it? We asked Azul De Pol, who is part of our UX community in Welsh Government, to write a blog to tell you more…
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The National Survey for Wales is the main social survey carried out by Welsh Government and its partners. It involves around 12,000 people across Wales each year, and in normal times it’s based on interviewing people in their homes. The survey covers many different topics, from health and the NHS to schools, council services, and views about the local area.
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It is impossible to ignore the changes we have experienced over the last 18 months and the different light the pandemic has shone on what contributes to the wellbeing of Wales. As a result, we’re looking at whether this experience has highlighted any gaps in the way we measure progress towards our wellbeing goals.
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Just a short blog to highlight some job opportunities within our IT services division at the moment.
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In my previous blog in November I briefly touched upon the first DataMapWales app, Active Travel. In this post, I will update you on this, how our beta launch has gone, and what’s next.
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This blog is the third in a series introducing some of the work we have been doing in the Welsh Government’s Data Science Unit. A lot of the work we do as data scientists involves analysing data in some way, but we also like to develop tools that help people work with data. Here are a couple of examples of things we’ve been developing.
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Welcome to the second part of our blog series that introduces some of the projects that the Data Science Unit are working on. Part 1 was published last week.
This blog covers a project that investigates the use of internet speed test data to support our existing knowledge of coverage across Wales.
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While accurate and timely statistics have always been recognised as a key input to good quality decision and policy making within government, this past year has put data at the forefront of strategy and reporting in a new way due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The public appetite for data has risen and products such as data dashboards are being frequently used by people who may not have been actively engaged in data previously.
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