Joining up the dots - is about turbo-charging API connectivity across government to enable effective data sharing in a seamless, secure, legal and trusted manner.
...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....
I’m Catherine Hope and I lead the team of Digital Performance Analysts working in Newcastle on the DWP’s retirement provision services. I’m also the DWP’s Data Presentation Champion, and get very excited by charts! I’m going to tell you about …
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 …
...but are particularly useful for code in text files for example R or Python code. Whilst git can be used locally on a single machine, or many networked machines, git...
We recently carried out user research into how people around government use service data and into how that data is supplied. This is part of our work to update the Performance Platform. Here's what we found.
We’ll shortly be recruiting some additional performance analysts in GDS. To give potential candidates a flavour of what it’s like, I asked my two newest colleagues to describe their experience of joining.
Six times a year performance analysts in central government get together to share best practice and learn about new insights and techniques. I went to our November meetup looking forward to connecting with colleagues and hearing about their experiences. But the day ended up being about much more than that for me.
...call these stopwords. Removing these words helps us focus on the more meaningful part of the text. As we explored our data we also started to compile a custom list...
...surprising: 53% of the time, manual coders disagreed about how a survey should be coded. We can see this in the chart below, which shows how often volunteer coders applied...
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