1. Bringing the numbers to life - DWP's use of data Mike Payne, Information Directorate, DWP

2. DWP administered benefits Jobseekers Allowance Income Support Incapacity Benefit / Employment Support Allowance Pension Credit State Pension Housing / Council Tax Benefit Employment Programmes Cover over 17 million individuals Publish quarterly Based on ‘complete’ administrative data, back to 1999

3. Tabulation Tool

5. NOMIS

6. Excel tables

7. Traditional DWP model Make statistics available via Tabtool / NOMIS / Excel Exploration / analysis by user via Excel / other specialist software

8. Why improve? Increased user expectation Visualisation helps transparency Fits with GSS Web Dissemination Strategy More aware of our own statistics Can help quality assurance … and little additional resource needed !

9. Google Public Data Explorer Launched in March 2010 Experimental, in Google Labs Uses Trendalyzer, acquired from Gapminder official Dataset Directory

10. Importing Public Data Need a Google account Create dataset using Dataset Publishing Language (DSPL) Add XML metadata file to existing CSV data files Zip dataset and upload Set access permissions … and enjoy!

11. DWP … … are developing a first dataset to go into Public Data Explorer Client Group breakdown for main DWP benefits Contains local authority breakdown, and data back to 1999

12. DWP on Public Data Explorer Example screenshots …

13. Line chart

14. Bar chart Bar chart – click play to animate time series

15. Bubble chart

19. Maps

20. Bringing the numbers to life - DWP's use of data Mike Payne, Information Directorate, DWP