Data science

When worlds collide: putting data science into production

Posted by: Karl Baker - Senior Developer, GDS, Posted on: 7 August 2019 - Categories: Data science, Machine learning

Read about how GOV.UK productionised the related links section, taking the outputs from a machine learning algorithm and adding them to the live workflow for publishers

A or B? How we test algorithms on GOV.UK

Posted by: Suganya Sivaskantharajah - Associate Data Scientist, GDS and Mat Gregory - Senior Data Scientist, GDS, Posted on: 19 June 2019 - Categories: Data science, Machine learning, Text Analytics

This post describes how we test the performance of machine learning algorithms to improve navigation on GOV.UK

Natural Language Processing in government

Posted by: Matt Dray - Associate Data Scientist, GDS, Posted on: 14 June 2019 - Categories: Data science, Machine learning, Text Analytics

Read about Natural Language Processing projects happening in data science teams across government

Connecting the dots: network science on GOV.UK

Posted by: Felisia Loukou - Data Scientist, GDS and Nicky Zachariou - Senior Data Scientist, GDS, Posted on: 29 May 2019 - Categories: 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

Posted by: Ellie King - Data Scientist, GDS and Nicky Zachariou - Senior Data Scientist, GDS, Posted on: 23 May 2019 - Categories: Data science, Machine learning, Python

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

Going from mentee to mentor with the Data Science Accelerator

Posted by: Manisha Matharu, Posted on: 13 May 2019 - Categories: Data science, Data Science Accelerator, People and Skills

Applications for the Data Science Accelerator are now open and close on 3 June 2019.

Boosting data science skills with the Data Science Accelerator

Posted by: Bharath Vadhoola - Senior predictive modeller - HMRC, Posted on: 21 January 2019 - Categories: Data science, Data Science Accelerator, People and Skills

HMRC's Bharath Vadhoola shares how the programme has helped him get a coveted job as a principal data scientist. Find out how you can get on the programme and boost your career prospects.

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

Posted by: Nicky Zachariou - Senior Data Scientist, GDS, Ellie King - Data Scientist, GDS and Felisia Loukou - Data Scientist, GDS, Posted on: 19 October 2018 - Categories: 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.

Data science is a team sport

Posted by: GDS Data Science team, Posted on: 8 October 2018 - Categories: Data science, Machine learning, People and Skills

One of the questions the data science team at the Government Digital Service (GDS) often gets asked is ‘how does your team work on data science projects?’ We thought we’d blog about how we have evolved our approach to data …

Join the Data Science Accelerator: applications now open

Posted by: Manisha Matharu, Posted on: 24 September 2018 - Categories: Data science, Data Science Accelerator, People and Skills

Apply to the Data Science Accelerator programme by 15 October, and you could begin developing your data science skills before the end of 2018.