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  • “Official data, new light” – another dxw project goes live

    After much hard work Visual.ONS has now launched! The website shows ONS statistics using a wide range of content: infographics, interactive visualisations and short studies. The purpose of the site is to “make data, statistics and analysis more accessible, engaging and easier to understand”. Stats that engage people The motto of the website “official data,…

  • Thames Valley Housing – Online Customer Service

    We’ve had an exciting start to the year at dxw. We’ve been working with Thames Valley Housing (TVH) to try and improve their online customer services and in December we switched on a new part of the service: online payments. TVH looks after over 14,500 homes for a really wide range of residents, from renters,…

  • Accountability Hack 2014 – A closer look at the data we used

    Last weekend dxw entered a team into the Accountability Hack run jointly by the National Audit Office, The Office for National Statistics and Parliament. Our hack – Right to Buy-Bye ended up winning both the ONS category and the Best in Show prize. We’ve already blogged about the process of building the hack, so in…

  • Accountability Hack 2014. And the winner is…

    This year Parliament hackathon, Accountability Hack, was hosted by Tracy Green (Parliament), Nick Halliday (NAO), Matt Jukes (ONS) and Julia Higginbottom (Rewired State) at the National Audit Office. dxw team of four developers/designers (Lily, Duncan, Tom and myself) together with many other keen “hackers” turned up at the NAO on Saturday morning to work on the challenges and create something awesome.…

  • Introducing Will

    Hi I’m Will and I’m the new Delivery Manager at dxw. I’ll be working closely with clients to make sure that we deliver our projects on time and to a great standard. I’ve had a lot of Public sector digital experience, most recently I  was working with the Government Digital Service. I was responsible for…

  • WebDevConf 2014

    Last WDC took place in Bristol on the 10th of October. It was followed by an choice of afternoon workshops happening the day before. The talks and the range of topics covered were really impressive, covering everything from building personal projects to how to deal with user complaints. It was also my first time in Bristol and I took the opportunity…