Mosaic Seminar – understanding our customers

Today we hosted a seminar for County Council colleagues on the Mosaic dataset.  Mosaic is a household classification tool, providing a detailed understanding of each resident’s demographics, lifestyle and behaviours.  It provides us with an accurate way of differentiating between different customer types, each with their own unique set of service needs and channel preferences.  We had [...]

Briefing Note – Quality of Life Feedback 2011/12

We have compiled a briefing note highlighting the feedback received on the Quality of Life 2011/12 document. The overall satisfaction of the 2011/12 report was 98%, where respondents were either very satisfied or fairly satisfied. The highest areas of satisfaction for respondents were around the design and presentation of the report (98%) and the structure [...]

Student Summer 2012 Placement

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a student to come and work within the Observatory for four to six weeks over the summer (June/July).  The student will need to be studying in a related discipline (statistics, economics, geography etc.), be highly numerate and willing to work across a range of projects within our team. The [...]

Quality of Life 2011/12 Report – Feedback Survey

The Quality of Life 2011/12 Report, produced by Warwickshire Observatory in October last year, uses analysis of a range of trends and indicators to provide an assessment of the quality of life experienced by residents in Warwickshire, and also assesses how these have changed over time. The report’s findings contribute to our evidence base needed [...]

Places available on Observatory’s Mosaic Seminar…

Warwickshire Observatory are planning to run an awareness raising session on the use of Experian’s customer profiling tool ‘Mosaic’. The session, available for WCC staff,  will be on Wednesday 23rd May 2012 10.00am – 12.00 at Northgate House Conference Centre. To book a place contact research@warwickshire.gov.uk. The Observatory have previously produced a number of publications [...]

A vacancy has arisen within the Observatory team for a Corporate GIS Manager

An exciting new vacancy has arisen for a Corporate GIS manager to join our team. The aim of the role is to develop, manage and champion Geographical Information Systems within and across Warwickshire County Council, so that it makes best use of GI, data, and other resources. The successful candidate will be responsible for Information Management within Warwickshire Observatory. [...]

ONS launches new consultation into National Well-being measures

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today launched a consultation on key themes and headline indicators of national well-being, which they propose are vital in understanding how to measure the UK’s progress by more than just its economic performance. We published a link to the early discussions around this topic here, where the ONS [...]

Handy Collection of Housing Data from Shelter’s Website

Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity organisation, has gathered a range of useful housing datasets within each of the following themes:  Housing Need Affordability Supply Social and Welfare  A tool providing these datasets can be accessed here. These data are taken from the relevant government organisations. They are available at district level, if needed, with [...]

Converting SOA figures into other geographical areas

The Observatory has developed a tool that enables us to convert Super Output Area (SOA) data into other geographical areas.  SOAs are the standard unit for many official statistics these days, but there are occasions where other levels of data are needed.  This tool will take SOA data and generate figures for other areas, even generating [...]

Presenting Data and Information Effectively

Last week Dave Gardiner and Spencer Payne from the Warwickshire Observatory ran a session at the County Council’s Learning at Work month. The aim of the session, entitled ‘Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics’, was to provide attendees with advice on how to present data and information effectively. Dave and Spencer ran through some good and [...]