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- 8th Jul 2016
Decision-making in children’s social care: quantitative analysis
Every day, social work practitioners make decisions about the wellbeing of thousands of vulnerable children and families. These decisions are often complex, concerning emotive issues in conditions of uncertainty. They are often made under both time and resource pressure. This report uses raw data on social work cases to reveal…
- Publication
- 15th Sep 2016
The Behavioural Insights Team’s Update Report: 2015-16
This report summarises the range and impact of BIT’s work over the past 12 months. In addition to the projects we have undertaken with the UK government, the report provides summaries of work conducted by our offices in Sydney, New York, and Singapore.
- Blog
- 13th Sep 2017
Britain's census matters. Can we boost participation and save money?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) plays a vital role in British life. Without ONS statistics, government and local authorities would not be able to calculate or understand inflation, immigration, or employment reliably, nor could government design and implement effective policies to manage those issues. Statistics determine how public funds…
- Report
- 14th Dec 2017
El uso de la ciencia de datos en políticas públicas
La variedad de técnicas que componen la ciencia de datos (nuevas herramientas para analizar datos, nuevos conjuntos de datos y formas novedosas de datos) tienen un gran potencial para ser utilizadas en políticas públicas. Sin embargo, hasta la fecha, estas herramientas han sido principalmente del dominio de los académicos y,…
Also available in: English
- Report
- 14th Dec 2017
Using Data Science in Policy
The first report from BIT's Data Science team
Also available in: Español
- Blog
- 14th Dec 2017
Data science at BIT - first year report
This morning sees the publication of BIT’s first data science report. It marks the culmination of twelve months of work by our data science team, which was inaugurated in January 2017. The team have worked across policy areas from education to health to children’s social care and road safety, and…
- Blog
- 5th Jul 2018
What do evidence and olives have in common?
People can learn in a number of ways - through direct instruction, such as early lessons from parents; through watching what other people do and learning from their actions; or through our own experiences and trial and error. Psychologists have long studied the way in which we learn from our…
- Blog
- 21st Sep 2018
Randomisation and the Avengers - a critique of Thanos' methodology
SPOILERS—Don't read this post if you haven't seen the latest Avengers film! Before Chadwick Boseman, before Chris Hemsworth - before even Robert Downey Junior, comic books and superheroes were the exclusive domain of nerds. In these dark days, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is everywhere, with millions of people now…
- Blog
- 22nd Aug 2019
The importance of replication
If you’ve ever run a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT), you know how exciting it is to find a solution that works.
- Blog
- 3rd Feb 2020
BIT Crime Week #1 Violence in London: what we know and how to respond
In the early hours of the first day of January 2019, a man was killed while working as a security guard at a New Year’s Eve party after he intervened to help a colleague involved in a struggle. In February, a man was murdered after refusing to give a stranger…