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People and Skills

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...

Help us start a data revolution for government

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We want to start a data revolution focusing on service delivery and improving human experience. Find out what we think government needs to do and how you can help.

What we've been up to in performance analysis and opportunities ahead

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Four years ago we redefined our role in GDS. Since then we've built an active community of practice across government and worked to build a 'data culture' within product teams. Find out what we've done and our plans for the next year.

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

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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.