...local government strategically focus their service delivery - to Classifying Businesses Using Text Descriptions by automating the process of categorising businesses using large sets of free text through machine learning...
...our analysis more accessible to colleagues so they can self-serve and free up time for both them and us. At GDS we’ve been doing a lot of work in building...
...The programme provides civil servants the chance to access data science tools and data scientist mentors. It’s free to participate in and is open to analysts and aspiring data scientists...
...more information to the Github pages in the next few weeks, and we’ll let you know when it’s live. Stay tuned, and please feel free to send us your feedback...
...team has completely rebuilt the state machine logic internally, and has refactored the code base for legibility. The code now is well structured. Test coverage has improved vastly from having...
...and isn’t too hard to learn from scratch (as I did). This R code extracts all the pageviews of the ‘/GetJob’ page for that particular day (all 379,000 of them)...
...two week sprint period. Technology The service team aim to release every sprint. The process is complicated by the infrastructure of the tax platform, meaning that getting code into production...
...code The agency responsible for the delivery of the service has published the entire source code of the service to their GitHub account. This should ideally be moved to an...
...code, code that contains sensitive information (e.g. fraud detection components) or can pose a security risk if open. Publishing the source code will be a mandatory requirement when the service...
...and has refactored the code base for legibility. The code now is well structured. Test coverage has improved vastly from having no existing tests to around 80% coverage. The team...
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