...In January 2024 James Freeland, Senior Data and Security Architect and Alex Smith, Head of Data Security and Platforms at the Government Digital Service (GDS), teamed up to work on...
...code open and reusable, and publish it under appropriate licences (or provide a convincing explanation as to why this cannot be done for specific subsets of the source code). The...
...but are particularly useful for code in text files for example R or Python code. Whilst git can be used locally on a single machine, or many networked machines, git...
...the Electronic Monitoring team to access and collect high quality data and feeding data requirements into new systems. Embed data management principles including ways to manage data issues through improvements...
...relevant and accessible, we recently sought feedback from some of our newsletter subscribers. The responses highlighted what participants value most: ● A shared motivation to engage with ethical issues that...
...2022 and 2024. These cases spanned a wide range of government bodies, including the Cabinet Office, HM Revenue and Customs, and Department for Transport. From these cases the most roadblocks...
...and decision-making more transparent. Why use open source code for data analysis? To summarise many other articles on the benefits of using open source code for data analysis: Analyses and...
...code. March - publish Renewals front-end code. May - publish a reworked new application form. Any appropriate new components that can be extracted will be open sourced. June - open...
...of code working properly you can very quickly reuse the same code again, changing it to collect different metrics and dimensions. For example in the complete script I have quickly...
...recommend that the team should prioritise the implementation of the shared continuous integration environment to enable end-to-end testing in beta. Make all new source code open and reusable The team...
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