Nov 2Citizens Advice Data Science team — our regular forumsThis is a quick post about the regular forums and practices we have as a team. Context We are a fairly small team of data specialists with a variety of responsibilities and mixed ways of working. Some of us are embedded full time in multidisciplinary product teams. Some of us work…Data3 min readData3 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Oct 14Dan’s Weeknotes 2022–10–14Hello friend. What’s good? I’ve been rather inconsistent with my weeknotes recently. Not to worry. I’m here. I’m trying. Since last time I went on holiday to New York City. The Big Apple that never sleeps. So good they named it twice what are you a wise guy? …Data4 min readData4 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Sep 25Dan’s Weeknotes 2022–09–25Hi there. I hope you’re doing well. I really fell out of the habit of writing for a brief moment there. It’s been an odd month. Didn’t feel like I had anything to say. But the thing is that writing weeknotes is the lowest barrier to entry for me for…Charity4 min readCharity4 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Aug 30Dan’s Weeknotes 2022–08–30Hello. I hope you’re doing ok. I haven’t written in a while. Looking back at last time I notice I wrote When did I last have a break? Like, a real one. and shortly after that I was sorting out my annual leave and I realised that I hadn’t had…Data4 min readData4 min read
Aug 12A data playbookFirst steps — For a while now I’ve been thinking about collecting the various things we’re learning on our data journey at Citizens Advice into one place. A ‘playbook’ of sorts. I imagined it as being something I’d do at the end of this journey, whenever that might be. Like writing a memoir…Data2 min readData2 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Aug 1Dan’s Weeknotes 2022–08–01Hi there. Hope you’re doing ok. Writing these late on a Monday evening. Don’t want to let the habit lapse. How much can I do in 20 minutes? Feel like I’m slipping. Where or into what I don’t really know. Just not getting through as much as I’d like. Motivation…Data3 min readData3 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Jul 22Dan’s Weeknotes 2022–07–22Hi there. Thanks for stopping by. I feel totally wrung out by this week. Right here at the start I’ll state that there are some things I can’t write about on the internet. That is not to be a tease, they are not interesting. This is professionalism. These things are…Data5 min readData5 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Jul 18Dan’s Weeknotes 2022–07–18Hi there. I didn’t get this writing done on Friday as preferred and I was ill and then busy at the weekend but I can keep up my momentum if I get it done now (Monday). It is freakishly hot in London (UK) today. Predicted to be one of (if…Charity3 min readCharity3 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Jul 9Dan’s Weeknotes 2022–07–09Hi there. I hope you’re doing ok. Thanks for stopping by. I think last week really tired me out. It wasn’t the most productive working week and that was a bit frustrating. Still, there were some highlights. Outside of work I didn’t quite look after myself enough, I didn’t get…Data5 min readData5 min read
Jul 8Our data open sessionGet involved? — Short version is “would you like to come and talk about data with us at Citizens Advice? If so please get in touch”. At Citizens Advice we’re working to develop a variety of forums for talking about our data and our data improvement work. I wrote about some of the…Charity3 min readCharity3 min read
