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Software engineering in analysis? See what happens next!

Three sets are shown: dreamers, coders and hackers. Where dreamers and coders intersect we have hackers. The sign for hackers has been crossed out and replaced with RAP Champions.

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.

Help us increase the importance of data in GDS service assessments

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...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...

Presenting data: 5 tips for making your data understandable

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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...

Data Science Accelerator Programme 2021: Applications now open

Data Science in Government

...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...