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Tomorrow evening! It'll be great!

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For more of this, come to DataBites tomorrow.

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Please share! Public lecture - Mr Justice Nicklin - Open Justice: Fit for Purpose - Wednesday 4 June 2025 17:00 to 19:00 Location: Green Templeton College, University of Oxford Speaker: The Honourable Mr Justice Nicklin Register here: www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Open Data Camp news – help us run in 2025! While we work with our friends and partners to bring Open Data Camp UK back to Scotland in 2026, we're looking at the potential of running one anywhere in the UK before the end of 2025, preferably in October. #odcamp #opendata

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Use your election result doom scrolling time productively: sign up for next Wednesday's Data Bites!

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HIRING! SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS! OpenSAFELY is our huge productive platform for secure efficient management of sensitive personal data. We're doing things right: everything open source; developers and researchers pooling skills (64 of us); and... we ship! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/04...

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Ferrari's alternative livery for the Miami Grand Prix this weekend (www.the-race.com/formula-1/al...) had me looking up their North American Racing Team on Wikipedia and it's difficult to think of a better name for a driver

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Our April event took place yesterday at the MoJ. With over 60 folks in the audience we listened to Catherine Day and @karakane-kk.bsky.social from the Cabinet Office do sections on participatory government and the CO's new Test, Learn and Grow team.

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🚨 A WEEK TODAY 🚨 Join @publicdigital.bsky.social & me for Data Bites 55! With: - Laura Gilbert, data/AI in govt - Ed Humpherson, Office for Stats Regulation - @blangry.bsky.social, politics/civic tech - MHCLG on AI Wed 7 May, 6pm, Broadway House (SW1)/online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-bites...

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And... we'll have MHCLG on AI, completing the line up with Laura Gilbert reflecting on data and AI in govt, @blangry.bsky.social on 'you can't API your way out of politics', and Ed Humpherson from the Office for Stats Regulation Sign up: 6pm, next Wed 7 May www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-bites...

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🚨 LINE-UP CHANGE 🚨 Sadly, James from GDS can no longer join us (we hope to have him soon), but instead we'll be joined by... Ed Humpherson, head of the Office for Statistics Regulation! Final speaker tbc, but sign up - in person (SW1) or online - now 👇

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A small point (and not as egregious as op-eds etc from ministers only appearing behind paywalls), but... Should the govt be making announcements like this on social media (of... questionable ownership) rather than GOV.UK, which currently has nothing about this?

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This Wednesday!

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Good that UK SIT Committee got DSIT to publish some info about their estimates of £45bn/year saving from use of technology Shame to see that all three figures making up the estimate - use of AI to automate, channel shift to online, reduced fraud - have got methodological weaknesses

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🔴 Remember Aria, the “moonshot" research agency dreamed up by Dominic Cummings? It's funded by £800m in public money but exempt from FOI laws We decided to fight for transparency... and we won 🎉 New on Democracy for Sale w/ @lucasamin.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dominic-cu...

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And if that isn't enough future of govt fun to delight your diary... On Weds 7 May it's Data Bites #55 @publicdigital.bsky.social Speakers include Laura Gilbert on data/AI in govt, James Freeland (GDS) on APIs in govt, & @blangry.bsky.social on civic tech etc www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-bites...

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Next Wednesday! Two big future-of-government topics... Catherine Day (civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2024/04/19/e...) on Participatory Government, and the Cabinet Office Test, Learn and Grow team (www.linkedin.com/posts/nick-k...) Sign up and join us at MoJ or online 👇

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🚨 DATA BITES KLAXON 🚨 Join @publicdigital.bsky.social and me for our 55th event, 6pm, Weds 7 May, with: - @blangry.bsky.social on civic tech, open data & politics - Laura Gilbert (ex-10DS, i.AI) - GDS on APIs Come in person (Broadway House, SW1) or watch online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-bites...

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A massive thank you to Ellie, Roshni and Helena for a brilliant overview of @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social's Public Voices in AI work www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/project/publ... And sign up for the next @connectedbydata.org community of practice meeting, 14 May connectedbydata.org/events/2025-...

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🚨 TOMORROW AT 2PM 🚨 Delighted to have @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social at @connectedbydata.org's community of practice on data & AI public engagement They'll be talking about their work on Public Voices in AI (inc quant survey & deliberative enquiry) Join us! connectedbydata.org/events/2025-...

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If you enjoyed me talking about this, and would like to hear me talk about something completely different: registers of interest data event: next thursday! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-use...

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A massive thank you to Ishmael, @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social, Isaac, @alexparsons.bsky.social & @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social for being such brilliant speakers last night Blogpost to follow, but you can watch back as live below Next one: Wed 7 May, sign up for details public.digital/data-bites-s...

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🚨 IN EIGHT MINUTES 🚨 It's Data Bites #54 @publicdigital.bsky.social! - Ishmael on digital sustainability - @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social on hydrology data sharing - Isaac & @alexparsons.bsky.social on climate scorecards - @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social on tracking waste Watch: bit.ly/databites54

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Great to see 'Minimise environmental impact' has been added to the UK Government Design principles (h/t @ayymanduh.bsky.social) services.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/02/a... And if you like that, you might like our special environment/sustainability Data Bites tomorrow! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-bites...

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Isaac will talk about the incredible results and impact of councilclimatescorecards.uk - and I'll whine about how we need to build obscure datasets like "a list of all the local authorities" to do it.

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🚨 FULL LINE-UP CONFIRMED 🚨 Tomorrow at 6pm we'll hear from: - Ishmael Burdeau, DWP - @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social, @ukceh.bsky.social - Isaac Beevor @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social, and @alexparsons.bsky.social @mysociety.org - @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social, North London Waste Authority Join us!

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🥳 Happy Data Bites week! 🥳 Join me - and more importantly, some excellent speakers on the environment and sustainability - in person or online at 6pm on Thursday for the latest #pddatabites 👇

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Join us in person at Broadway House (opposite St. James's Park tube station) or online, 6pm next Thursday 3 April 👇

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My one and only time for waste chat before I am off to pastures new!

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🚨 ONE WEEK TODAY 🚨 Data Bites #54, an environment/sustainability special! With: - DWP's Ishmael Burdeau on digital sustainability - @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social @mysociety.org on climate scorecards - @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social on tracking waste Join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-bites...

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TONIGHT!

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Join us TOMORROW, at the MoJ or online

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Last week at @connectedbydata.org we hosted an unconference. It was a real buzz and feedback was good. My #Weeknotes capture the care that I'm proud we demonstrated. lnkd.in/eqB4ygxF Paul Clarke (paulclarke.com) took these fab photos…I still can’t believe the post-its were bigger than my head!!

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Happy @transformgovtalks.bsky.social week! See you on Wednesday?

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5 years ago today, the Covid-19 R number was mentioned for the first time on GOV.UK. How did it come to take over our lives? Where did the data come from? What did we learn? My long read for Understanding Patient Data and @royalstatsoc.bsky.social understandingpatientdata.org.uk/story-r-numb...

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You still have a few hours left to fill this out (thank you!)

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#Weeknotes Unconference edition, with special appreciation for @jenitennison.com @adamc-c.bsky.social @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social and all at Connected by Data www.linkedin.com/pulse/weekno...

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