...supported by thought- provoking books and the perspectives of colleagues across the public sector. So, what’s changing in 2025? And how can you get involved? What Is the Data Ethics...
...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 Ministry of Justice (MoJ) launched its Data Strategy in August 2022 and since then we’ve been making progress against the goals we set out. We’re also looking to the...
...take place. Tax-Free Childcare is a new Government service, offering support to working parents with their childcare costs. The purpose of the service is to either help parents back into...
...NLP is used to interpret unstructured text data, such as free-text notes or survey feedback. It can help us look for similarities and uncover patterns in what people have written,...
...surprising: 53% of the time, manual coders disagreed about how a survey should be coded. We can see this in the chart below, which shows how often volunteer coders applied...
...is a free library for fast and accurate record linkage, which is now in its third version. It has the following key features: Faster and more accurate than other free...
...free tools that I use to convert postcode data into useful maps. My example shows sample data of football stadiums in Great Britain. Mapping Sheets This Google Sheets add-on allows...
MeasureCamp is a free, informal ‘unconference’ for digital analysts, held on a Saturday in London twice a year. Its objective is ‘the transfer of knowledge’, and everyone is encouraged to...
...source code to be made publicly available. Rather than making a judgement on what source code will be useful and reusable, the default approach should be to publish (sensitive information...