The Justice Data Lab turns 10!
The Justice Data Lab turns 10!
This year is the 10th anniversary of the Justice Data Lab, a pioneering team enabling third sector organisations to commission impact evaluations of their work.
What Makes a Good Data Science Project?
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Hillary Juma - Data Science Community Manager, ONS, Posted on:
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Categories:
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.
Help us set a new data standard for vulnerable people services
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Data Standards Authority Team, CDDO, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data Standards, Open Standards
We need your help setting a data standard to make public services more effective for UK citizens.
We need a standard for sharing beneficial ownership data
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Data Standards Authority Team, CDDO and Global Digital Marketplace Team, GDS, Posted on:
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Categories:
Beneficial Ownership, Data Standards, Open Standards
We want your help to identify and establish an Open Standard for beneficial ownership data.
Software engineering in analysis? See what happens next!
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Alexander Newton - Good Practice Data Scientist, ONS, Posted on:
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Reproducible Analytical Pipelines, Spreadsheets, Statistics
We're borrowing software engineering tools to make analytical code more robust, and encouraging people to ditch spreadsheets for programming languages. Our aim is ease of reproducibility, quality assurance, auditability, adaptability and sustainability of our analysis.
Our new guidance on publishing reference data for government
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Charlee Gothard - Technical Writer, Data Standards Authority, GDS, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data Standards, Guidance
The Data Standards Authority has published new data guidance to help teams publish their own reference data for use across government
Help us increase the importance of data in GDS service assessments
Posted by:
Charlee Gothard - Technical Writer, Data Standards Authority, GDS, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data Standards, Digital Service Standard, Service manual
The Data Standards Authority invites you to play a leading role in the future development of the Service Manual and service assessments, increasing the importance that data plays.
Presenting data: 5 tips for making your data understandable
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Catherine Hope - Statistician, Department for Work and Pensions, Posted on:
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Data Visualisation, People and Skills
DWP statistician Catherine Hope leads the cross-government ‘Presentation Champions’ who share best practice for designing the best ways to present government data. In this blog she shares some tips on the best ways to make your information understandable.
New guidance for publishing data
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Data Standards Authority Team, CDDO, Posted on:
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Categories:
Digital Service Standard, Performance Platform
GDS is retiring 2 data services - GOV.UK Registers and GOV.UK Performance - and producing new guidance to support departments in publishing their own data.
How we created a reporting tool to improve the accessibility of GOV.UK
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Avision Ho - Data Scientist, GDS and Kelvin Gan - Senior Developer, GDS, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data insights, Text Analytics
Find out about the role of data specialists in GOV.UK who helped their colleagues to locate accessibility issues across GOV.UK, and how data processing techniques were used to contribute to fixing these problems
Why data harmonisation is important
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Darren Stillwell - Head of Quality and Standards, Equality Hub, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data Standards, Statistics
Darren Stillwell explains why the Race Disparity Unit (RDU) is a big fan of ‘harmonisation’. He outlines what the RDU is doing to make ethnicity data more consistent and comparable, and outlines some barriers they’re encountering along the way.
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