Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • An Uber for public transport

    It was very interesting this week to read a post over on the Futuregov blog about their work with Essex and Suffolk councils to bring a (and I’m quoting) ‘Silicon Valley state of mind’ to rethinking public transport. It is a great post and uses the success of Uber (and despite the multitude of slightly…

  • #jukesiejobs 6th September 2015

    So first things first. I have quite a few roles available with me at ONS – Tech Lead, Open Data Scientist, Visual Journalism Manager, UX Designer, User Researcher and Java/Web Developer – so please go and have a look 🙂 We are also recruiting for a new Head of Comms at ONS – there is…

  • Balls, bibs and cones

    I was recently accused (in the nicest possible way) of being a ‘digital leader’. This is a kind of catch all senior role/position that has grown in currency in the last year or so, particularly in and around the civil service. Shortly before the GDS exodus Mike Bracken wrote a post about if you ‘Hire…

  • Interesting elsewhere: Bring on the Bots

    Here are a few links to things that have sparked my interest recently. More and more I find myself drawn to ideas and technologies that are about making data truly human-readable – but in some kind of of automated, artificially (not very) intelligent way. I’ve written about the ‘robo-reporting‘ and my thoughts on ‘conversational interfaces‘…

  • Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

    There was a time when it seemed like this was a staple of every interview anyone attended. It seems to have, thankfully, gone out of style now but once upon a time it was the go-to question. My standard answer back then was that I wanted to be Head of Web/Online/Digital for a major university.…