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Growing public trust in statistics through collaborative communication and intelligent transparency

Conference, Data visualisation, Digital, Statisticians and Data Scientists, User engagement

Simon Baugh, Chief Executive of the Government Communication Service (GCS), and Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation for the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR), recently presented together at the GSS Conference in Edinburgh. This blog highlights some of the key themes of the conference. Ed and Simon discussed with the audience how analysts and communications […]

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Automated data visualisation best practice in R: afcharts release

Accessibility, Data visualisation

What is afcharts? afcharts is an R package for creating accessible charts. afcharts implements the Analysis Function data visualisation guidance. What does afcharts do? afcharts automates setting accessible colours, fonts and text sizing, axes labelling, and much more.  Currently, functions are available for styling ggplot2 plots. afcharts takes your charts from the ggplot2 defaults to […]

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Analysis in Government month 2022: Data vis and accessibility – links to content and answers to questions

Archived Accessibility, Data visualisation

If you came to my session this morning  (19 May 2022) on data visualisation and accessibility, thank you, I hoped you enjoyed and found it informative. Links to content I realised that I talked a lot about content that lives on this website. I always find it hard to link to content while delivering a […]

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