Cross-government and cross-public sector working are increasingly important, with departments appreciating that colleagues are likely to be facing the same issues with the same solutions. This makes communities of practice and communities of interest such as the Data Science Community …
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.
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
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.
Read how the Data Science Accelerator programme has improved the way in which mentors and mentees are matched, based on project proposals
The first 2021 cohort of the Data Science Accelerator programme launches on 18 January. Read three testimonials from recent programme graduates about their experiences.
The Office of National Statistics has been working on making metadata more accessible, helping to make data a focus of organisational change.
The Data Standards Authority has published new data guidance to help government teams meet spend controls guidelines and deliver APIs to meet user needs
The Government Data Science Partnership held its first totally virtual data science conference this year. Here's what we learned from running it.
The Data Standards Authority wants your feedback on proposals to adopt Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) as a government standard.
We recently held our first virtual cross-government Performance Analyst Community of Practice meet-up. Clare and Olivia review the event and share what’s next for the community.
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