...used to transform the experience of everyone who interacts with government. It forms a part of the government transformation strategy and the centralisation of data policy at DCMS is a...
...percentages, so it's useful to be able to see both for the full picture. For example, in 5 workforces – armed forces, firefighters, prison officers, tribunal judges and non-legal members...
...high-harm offender. The final state of the model used a random forest with the XGboost algorithm, for multi-label classification on the next type of crime for the group predicted to...
...of innovative data science and analytics techniques tailored to defence’s specific needs. But this can be difficult because our data is often sensitive for a variety of reasons. For example,...
...decisions based on data and improve the outcomes for the millions of people that rely on the justice system. We are creating the foundations for our colleagues – in data...
...dashboard This may be adequate for smaller scale sites but for GOV.UK we wanted to drill further and show terms by topics we were interested in, such as driving and...
...data frame from our database showing how each variable has its own column. Whatever one’s gardening preference, ensuring that our data was in a tidy format made it easier for...
...code open and reusable The team have a plan to open source the subsets of the code they are able to. We encourage them to do this sooner rather than...
...enabled consistency in techniques and statistical standards and as a result stakeholders had greater confidence in results. Better data for better decisions Robin, a senior data scientist at the Foreign...
...for each of the platform's 123 dashboards, and written the underlying code and accompanying content. Although we’ve recently begun to reuse graphs and components when launching new dashboards, we’ve still...
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