Blog
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We are on Digital Outcomes and Specialists 3!
As we know you all love a bit of procurement news: the new Digital Outcomes and Specialists 3 procurement framework goes live on 1st October, and we’ll be one of the suppliers available on it. Along with G-Cloud 10, this gives our local and central government clients a straightforward way to buy our services using […]
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Why is it hard to project demand for complex public services?
Most of our local government clients have strong in-house analytics and business intelligence teams, who do most of their demand projection and strategy analysis, often making heavy use of Excel, which is a great workhorse tool for many problems. When we start working with them on complex services such as SEND, one of their considerations […]
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Modelling Scenarios with the Witan SEND Model
When developing the Witan SEND model we talked to local authorities (LAs) about what was most important to them when doing projections for their SEND population. One of the things we kept hearing was the need to be able to model “alternative scenarios”. Being able to project the future SEND population and the cost to […]
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Working with LB Hackney to build a new business index
We recently completed a project with Unboxed and the London Borough of Hackney to create a Minimum Viable Product of a new API-accessible Business Index for the borough’s 25,000 businesses. Take a look here to find out more.
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How does the SEND model work?
Back in February 2018 we released version 1.0 of our Witan SEND model. Our aim was to help local authorities (LAs) get a better understanding of future demand for services in terms of their SEND population and budget. Working with a number of LAs across the country, we discovered that one of the key areas […]
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How good are our projections of SEND service demand?
Our models are designed to make predictions on future events using data from the past, so we always need to “validate” them. This means testing how accurately the models predicts real-world situations outside of the safe, cosy environment it’s been conceived and built in. More technically, this is called “out-of-sample” performance. In an ideal world, […]
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Join us on the march toward advanced data capability in our cities
Smarter use of city data is helping bustling metropolitan areas be better places to live. From generating useful insights in complex areas, to developing new public services, data is creating a new kind of infrastructure that’s growing to be as essential to successful city living as roads and utilities. On the 17th May, Mastodon C, […]
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We’re hiring! sales development representative
We’re looking for a Sales Development Representative to help us attract, educate and win clients for our new city data tool, Witan. who we are Mastodon C are agile big data specialists. We are a cutting-edge company, known for being innovative as well as ethical. We provide data science consultancy services to both the public sector […]
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How we’ll help data science be a force for public sector good in 2018
Data science made a noticeable impact on the public sector in 2017. And it’s no longer just a small group of innovators who are putting data to work in their organisations. Projects such as the GLA’s datastore are helping the sector build a data infrastructure that will benefit us all. While progress has been made, the pressure to deliver […]
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Product marketing manager job
We’re looking for a Product Marketing Manager to help us attract, educate and win clients for our new city data tool, Witan. who we are Mastodon C are agile big data specialists. We are a cutting-edge company, known for being innovative as well as ethical. We provide data science consultancy services to both the public sector […]
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