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Accelerating public sector data science and visualisation
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Sophie Nelson - Programme Officer, Office for National Statistics, Posted on:
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Data science, Data Science Accelerator, Data Visualisation, People and Skills
The Data Science Accelerator mentoring programme is expanding to offer a new data visualisation branch. Applications for both open on 14 June.
What Makes a Good Data Science Project?
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Hillary Juma - Data Science Community Manager, ONS, Posted on:
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Data science, People and Skills
Our diverse range of speakers at the Data Science Community of Interest shared what they think makes a good data science project.
Data Science Accelerator Programme 2021: Applications now open
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Sophie Nelson - Programme Officer, Office for National Statistics, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data science, Data Science Accelerator, People and Skills
The first 2021 cohort of the Data Science Accelerator programme launches on 18 January. Read three testimonials from recent programme graduates about their experiences.
All in - Lessons from the first virtual Government Data Science Festival
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Hillary Juma - Data Science Community Manager, ONS, Posted on:
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Data science, Events
The Government Data Science Partnership held its first totally virtual data science conference this year. Here's what we learned from running it.
Government Data Science Festival 2020
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Hillary Juma - Data Science Community Manager, ONS, Posted on:
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Data science, Events
The 4th annual Government Data Science Conference is coming up. Here are all the details for the strands and talks, and information on how to register
Synthetic data: Unlocking the power of data and skills for machine learning
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Karen Walker - Principal Data Scientist, DSTL, Posted on:
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Data insights, Data science, Machine learning
Discover how DSTL are able to share data with partners, by using synthetic data generation techniques to remove or obscure sensitive data while retaining its structure and characteristics
Government Data Science community meetup, May 2020
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Hillary Juma - Data Science Community Manager, ONS and James Charlton - Data Science Community Manager, GDS, Posted on:
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Data insights, Data science, Events, Machine learning, People and Skills
We recently held our first completely remote Data Science Community of Interest event. Hillary and James talk in this post about the event and recap some of the presentations
RAPpers delight
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Anthony Ash - Statistician, MHCLG, Posted on:
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Data science, R, Reproducible Analytical Pipelines
The Homelessness and Troubled Families Analysis Team at MHCLG have recently published the latest 2019 Rough Sleeping Snapshot statistics using a Reproducible Analytical Pipeline (RAP). This felt like a real achievement as we are one of the first teams in …
The Data Science in Transport community just got bigger
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Kian Chapman-Raafat - Data Scientist, Department for Transport, Posted on:
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Data science, Events, Python, R
The 23rd of January 2020 marked the biggest Data Science in Transport community event to date. People from across academia, industry, and the public sector came together for a hack, conference, and networking event to learn from each other.