Government Data Science Festival 2020

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
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
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
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
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 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.
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
Like most organisations today, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) wants to use its data more effectively. The goal is to make sure that people making decisions have the insights they need at the right time to guide their decision making, whether that’s front-line prison staff or senior civil servants.
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
This post describes how we test the performance of machine learning algorithms to improve navigation on GOV.UK
Read about Natural Language Processing projects happening in data science teams across government