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Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don\u2019t get the attention they deserve.\n\nAt this month's event, the 19th in our series, the speakers presented their data projects in an exciting, quickfire format. Each set of speakers had eight minutes, followed by eight minutes of questions from the audience.\n\nThis month's speakers were:\n\nMark Green, Senior Lecturer in Health Geography at the University of Liverpool, on Local Data Spaces: helping local authorities tackle the Covid-19 pandemic\nNick Bailey, Director of the Urban Big Data Centre, on the Urban Big Data Centre\u2019s research\nMichaela Benzeval, Director of Understanding Society at the University of Essex, and Gemma Schwendel, Senior Analyst at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, on producing and using real time data about the impact of the pandemic on household income, and on the lives of low-income families\nCatherine Bromley, Deputy Director of Data Strategy and Infrastructure at the ESRC, on UK social science data infrastructure \u2013 what\u2019s worked during the pandemic, what\u2019s been a challenge, and lessons for the future.\nThe event was chaired by Gavin Freeguard, associate at the Institute for Government.\n\nWe took questions virtually during the event.