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Hi everyone, @ShamelaPG and @stattymichelle here and ready to live tweet this morning's fantastic #AnalysisInGovernmentMonth event about the importance of collaboration. Got your tickets yet? Who is joining us? Just over 30 minutes to go... https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-together-makes-a-difference-the-importance-of-collaboration-tickets-148885894719?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
And we're off... @stats_holly kicks off proceedings. We're so excited for this event- its in line with the theme of the month #AnalysisConnect. Holly starts by talking about the Analysis in Government awards - all today's speakers were shortlisted for awards
Sarah Crofts and Esther Sutherland begin by talking about the amazing work of the @ONS COVID-19 Infection survey team. We love that Sarah is joined by her cat! 
Do you want to know more about latest infection or antibody estimates - take a look here -> https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/30april2021
Do you want to know more about latest infection or antibody estimates - take a look here -> https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/30april2021
Sarah now talking about the how essential it has been to collaborate across departments, professions, devolved administrations and across organisations to understand and measure the pandemic. Incredibly the large scale COVID-19 survey was set up in a number of days!
Esther explains how the team collaborated within ONS too - resulting in a COVID insights dashboard tool -> https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights
Time now for Sebastian Fox from @PHE to talk through his work on modelling excess mortality across England during the pandemic and how he collaborated with teams across various organisations
Want to read more about Sebastian's work? Here is a link to some of the work he is talking about -> https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/excess-mortality-in-england-weekly-reports
Sebastian explains how the team utilised agile working and daily stand ups to support their collaboration. They needed to collaborate with others when establishing data flows, developing their methodology, communicating outputs to users and building resilience in the team.
Sebastian talks about the team's use of Reproducible Analytical Pipelines. Want to know more about RAP? Have a look at this overview -> https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/reproducible-analytical-pipelines/ or get in contact with our very own @goodpracticeal
Fab presentations so far, now time for Alan Roberts from the International Comparators Joint Unit Data Team which is a joint unit between @cabinetofficeuk and @FCDOGovUK and is supporting improved decision making during the pandemic at the highest levels.
Alan explains how a range of complementary skills are brought to each commission by having multi-disciplinary teams from different departments & teams with numerous specialisms & professions. They also set up an expert panel to have access to expertise which the team lacked.
Alan now talks through the value of qualitative data to provide context to the numbers #Statistics
