...discussion with the Analytical Systems and Pipelines Hub on a training series on reproducible coding. Voluntary Application of the Code of Practice for Statistics: The Code of Practice for Statistics...
...look for specific accessibility content issues. We wrote it in Python, as it’s a GDS-supported programming language, and structured the code in a way that allowed us to write and...
...was standardised (e.g. 'Epsom & Ewell' was always named 'Epsom and Ewell'), an 'ONS name' table was imported into the database too. This table contained local authority names, ONS codes...
...This combination of different expertise helped ensure we understood the data and the process as well as the code, which we quickly realised was crucial in the initial phase of...
...understand and comment on. We decided to use Jupyter Notebook to document our experiments, because it allows us to write both code and free-form text, and expose the notebook via...
...code open and reusable, and the team told us that DVLA as a whole is now proposing to adopt this process. The process will include additional controls, reflecting the organisation’s...
...also not passed point 8 – although there are plans to share code within DVLA, and the team expressed a willingness to make its source code open and reusable, there...
...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...
...place to make all new source code (or specific subsets of the source code) open and reusable. The panel expect evidence of this to be demonstrated at the beta assessment....
...and constantly improving the service. A strong commitment to open sourcing the code (with all code being placed on Github), as well as to open data with each page being...
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