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Data Science Accelerator

Collaborative learning: closer ties with academia

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GDS x Imperial University Collaboration 2022 Collaboration and innovation are some of the key tenets of the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) profession. The Cabinet Office offers many avenues for productive collaboration, enabling internal and external partners to develop both …

The perfect match: optimising the accelerator mentor-mentee pairing process

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The Data Science Accelerator is a capability-building programme which helps analysts in the public sector to develop their data science skills. The programme is supported by the Government Digital Service...

Data Science Accelerator Programme 2021: Applications now open

Data Science in Government

...community. I’ve learned how to code in Python and implement various code libraries. I also created a set of tuned machine learning models to classify different crime types based on...

Boosting data science skills with the Data Science Accelerator

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...from across the public sector (including local and central government). On the Accelerator Joining the Accelerator meant I would have one day a week, over 3 months, as protected time...