The Data Science Accelerator programme is open again for applications until 12 June. Don’t miss out.
At GDS we believe that making things open makes things better, which is why I recently participated in an open peer review of open code written by Public Health England...
The Data Science Accelerator, now in its third year, is a capability-building programme which gives analysts from across the public sector the opportunity to develop their data science skills by...
In March, we blogged about our work with analysts across government to transform the way we produce official statistics. We borrowed ideas from software development and academia to demonstrate what this might look like. We called the project ‘RAP’, which stands for Reproducible Analytical Pipelines.
...instead focus the necessary resources onto the patients who are at most risk. For more information on the Accelerator programme please see our guidance page or email us at data-science-accelerator@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk....
The Better Use of Data (BUOD) team at GDS helps government departments apply data science techniques to policy and operational problems. Most technical work is done at GDS, but sometimes we embed people in teams across departments - including a …
...additional set of tools we can start to use once we begin writing our own tests is code coverage tools, for instance codecov.io, or coveralls.io. These tools are able to...
...coherent topics if inflected forms of words are first reduced to their base form or lexeme. For example, 'learning' , 'learnt' and 'learner' can all be reduced to the root...
...our manual coders are now freed to focus on the difficult classes, we can also start to develop algorithms to automatically classify these as we more quickly accrue manually coded...
The fifth Accelerator programme has now finished and we have 29 graduates from 21 organisations with the skills and technical knowledge to make a real contribution to data science across the public sector. This is a significant achievement in just …
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