...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...
...the DSA has just published new data guidance to help teams, which approve spend on technology and services, assess how data is managed. We’ve also published guidance for practitioner teams...
...audiences and flexibility for work commitments. To host the festival week we took an agnostic approach, within security guidelines, to decide on the digital conferencing platform. Our festival host teams...
...as Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 buckets. They set up processes to clean and manipulate the data by writing version-controlled code (for example, using Python) that automatically provides us with...
...set for the first time? The Problem Take our GOV.UK feedback survey for example, you may have seen it appear in the header of the site from time to time,...
...speed up our approach we wrote code as a software package on Github that enabled us to run the analysis instantly upon experiment completion. This initial early investment into automation...
There’s not much time left to apply for the Data Science Accelerator programme if you’re interested in developing your data science skills. The award-winning programme gives analysts from across the...
...used other approaches such as using date of session and the first half of the user’s postcode to try to match GA and admin data. On one service where we...
...new to the organisation, I’m also at the start of my career. This is only my second job. Before joining GDS, I felt a similar mix of excitement and apprehension...
...against the various conditions (or their effects, if this is a more appropriate approach) and systematically recruit against this segmentation. Friends and family should be included appropriately. And more generally,...
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