We need your help setting a data standard to make public services more effective for UK citizens.
We want your help to identify and establish an Open Standard for beneficial ownership data.
We're borrowing software engineering tools to make analytical code more robust, and encouraging people to ditch spreadsheets for programming languages. Our aim is ease of reproducibility, quality assurance, auditability, adaptability and sustainability of our analysis.
At the Data Standards Authority (DSA), we’re working to make it easier and more effective to share and use data across government. Our new guidance assists teams to publish their...
...of working towards the goal of a connected, common data infrastructure for government is looking at the way the government plans, budgets and delivers projects, and how much focus is...
I’ve been passionate about presenting data clearly for over 10 years now, and recently took the lead of a cross-government group of “Presentation Champions”. We share best practice for designing...
GDS is retiring 2 data services - GOV.UK Registers and GOV.UK Performance - and producing new guidance to support departments in publishing their own data.
...look for specific accessibility content issues. We wrote it in Python, as it’s a GDS-supported programming language, and structured the code in a way that allowed us to write and...
...the Department for Education (DfE) uses an extended set of codes to record the ethnicity of students and teachers based around the 2001 Census classifications. Having these detailed ethnicity codes...
...reliable results quickly, given that the matching exercise had to be completed over a short timescale We found that this could be achieved by identifying a list of keywords in...
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