Arthur Turrell
The triple lock is in the news again: the UK’s cost of living tsar, appointed by Sir Keir Starmer, recently said that it was “mathematically unsustainable and”profoundly unfair.” The OBR estimates that it will cost £15.5bn more a year by the end of this parliament than it would have under average...
Arthur Turrell
How much economic growth can you generate from making a private dataset open? Let’s create a simple model. Assume firms have total factor productivity , with baseline . When a firm has access to new data relevant to its production, it moves to TFP with is the proportional TFP boost from using...
Arthur Turrell
National statistics matter: they have a direct bearing on everything from government targets, to funding formulae, to the focus of the media, to the UK’s debt. But there have been many high-profile errors in the nation’s numbers recently, and that’s a cause for concern. Furthermore, the recent...
Arthur Turrell
I’ve been thinking a lot about efficiency in the public sector recently. This post looks at ideas for increasing the efficiency of analysis and operations through automation, good coding practices, artificial intelligence, and, well, (meta-?) analysis. This is the second post in this series; see...
Arthur Turrell
I’ve been thinking a lot about efficiency in the public sector recently, particularly how we can improve it. In this post, I’ll focus on some ideas for improving communication and co-ordination between public sector workers. Quick disclaimer: efficiency, in time or money, is not the only important...
Arthur Turrell
What’s going on in the world of data validation? For those of you who don’t know, data validation is the process of checking data quality in an automated or semi-automated way—for example, checking datatypes, checking the number of missing values, and detecting whether there are anomalous numbers....
Arthur Turrell
Many of us will have experienced bad hardware or software at work. Applications that freeze when you try and do something. A lag when typing. Some programmes ceasing to work before crashing completely. Maybe it’s another kind of performance that makes you want to throw your laptop out of the...