The Data Science Accelerator programme is open again for applications until 12 June. Don’t miss out.
At GDS we believe that making things open makes things better, which is why I recently participated in an open peer review of open code written by Public Health England for analysing their open data.
The Data Science Accelerator, now in its third year, is a capability-building programme which gives analysts from across the public sector the opportunity to develop their data science skills by delivering a project of real business value. The Accelerator runs …
In March, we blogged about our work with analysts across government to transform the way we produce official statistics. We borrowed ideas from software development and academia to demonstrate what this might look like. We called the project ‘RAP’, which stands for Reproducible Analytical Pipelines.
The Data Science Accelerator - now in its third year - is a capability-building programme which gives analysts from across the public sector the opportunity to develop their data science skills by delivering a project of real business value. The …
The Better Use of Data (BUOD) team at GDS helps government departments apply data science techniques to policy and operational problems. Most technical work is done at GDS, but sometimes we embed people in teams across departments - including a …
Producing official statistics for publications is a key function of many teams across government. It’s a time consuming and meticulous process to ensure that statistics are accurate and timely. With open source software becoming more widely used, there’s now a …
We are creating a single taxonomy for GOV.UK, to make it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for quickly. This blog is about how we have experimented with data science to save time when building taxonomies.
Understanding what users think about GOV.UK helps us to build better services to meet citizens' needs. Recently we've automated some of the process for analysing thousands of responses to one of our user surveys.
The fifth Accelerator programme has now finished and we have 29 graduates from 21 organisations with the skills and technical knowledge to make a real contribution to data science across the public sector. This is a significant achievement in just …
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