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Felisia Loukou - Data Scientist, GDS

Connecting the dots: network science on GOV.UK

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Image showing 3 post-its describing the 3 network types: (a) structural, (b) functional and (3) semantic. The respective ways of inducing a relationship between the pages in the networks are: (a) hyperlink exists from one page to go to the next, (b) user clicks to go from one page to the next and (c) the documents are semantically similar

GOV.UK can be represented as a multilayer network GOV.UK is a group of pages that comprises the best place to find government services and information. In its most abstract form, GOV.UK can be represented as a network made of pages, …

How we used deep learning to structure GOV.UK’s content

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A laptop covered in stickers, including one that reads 'GOV.UK 6'

We're using supervised machine learning to organise all the content on GOV.UK, which means we can do things like create step by step journeys and consider voice activation. Here's what the data science team did.

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