Nicky Zachariou – Head of Data Science (Prisons and Probation), MoJ

Nicky Zachariou - Head of Data Science (Prisons and Probation), MoJ

Fostering a data science innovation culture

Nicky Zachariou - Head of Data Science (Prisons and Probation), MoJ, 6 November 2019 - Data science, People and Skills

Data science is a complex, rapidly changing discipline and has an increasingly diverse range of applications. read how Nicky formalised the process of continuous learning and innovation by encouraging people to spend up to 20% of their time exploring new and innovative data science tools and techniques

Connecting the dots: network science on GOV.UK

Felisia Loukou - Data Scientist, GDS and Nicky Zachariou - Head of Data Science (Prisons and Probation), MoJ, 29 May 2019 - Data science, Machine learning

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, …

Detecting semantic similarity on GOV.UK

Ellie King - Data Scientist, GDS and Nicky Zachariou - Head of Data Science (Prisons and Probation), MoJ, 23 May 2019 - Data science, Machine learning, Python

Find out all the ways in which semantic similarity is helping us improve GOV.UK

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

Nicky Zachariou - Head of Data Science (Prisons and Probation), MoJ, Ellie King - Data Scientist, GDS and Felisia Loukou - Data Scientist, GDS, 19 October 2018 - Data insights, Data science, Machine learning, People and Skills

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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