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At the Data Standards Authority (DSA), we’re working to make it easier and more effective to share and use data across government. Our new guidance assists teams to publish their...
...of working towards the goal of a connected, common data infrastructure for government is looking at the way the government plans, budgets and delivers projects, and how much focus is...
I’ve been passionate about presenting data clearly for over 10 years now, and recently took the lead of a cross-government group of “Presentation Champions”. We share best practice for designing...
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.
...look for specific accessibility content issues. We wrote it in Python, as it’s a GDS-supported programming language, and structured the code in a way that allowed us to write and...
...the Department for Education (DfE) uses an extended set of codes to record the ethnicity of students and teachers based around the 2001 Census classifications. Having these detailed ethnicity codes...
...reliable results quickly, given that the matching exercise had to be completed over a short timescale We found that this could be achieved by identifying a list of keywords in...
...community. I’ve learned how to code in Python and implement various code libraries. I also created a set of tuned machine learning models to classify different crime types based on...
...used in our work, such as surveys, and in producing statistical output. We also integrated and harmonised the 19 business glossaries we had found during our discovery into a single,...
...Code of Practice (TCoP) guidance collection on GOV.UK, which technology teams across government must follow. Updating the spend control process to focus more on data One of the aims of...
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