A discovery into data publishing formats
...consistency across large numbers of datasets and to keep them up to date. This work supports the Government Transformation Strategy which commits to making “better use of data”. This has...
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Detecting semantic similarity on GOV.UK
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Ellie King - Data Scientist, GDS and Nicky Zachariou - Head of Data Science (Prisons and Probation), MoJ, Posted on:
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Data science, Machine learning, Python
...use in solving GOV.UK problems. Each semantic vector represents a content item and the cosine of the angle between the vectors is called ‘the cosine distance’. The smaller the angle,...
Natural Language Processing in government
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Matt Dray - Associate Data Scientist, GDS, Posted on:
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Data science, Machine learning, Text Analytics
The Government Data Science Partnership (GDSP) brings together public servants to share knowledge about data science. It’s a collaboration between the Government Digital Service (GDS), Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
How we're helping people understand ethnicity data
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Richard Laux - Deputy Director (Data and Analysis), Race Disparity Unit, Posted on:
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Data insights, Open data, Statistics
...have more and better data about the five broad groups. On the other hand, these groups are typically very heterogeneous. We concluded that there was most value in providing what...
How can the public sector collect better data on staff ethnicity?
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Richard Laux - Deputy Director (Data and Analysis), Race Disparity Unit, Posted on:
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Data insights, Statistics
...This makes comparisons between authorities difficult. If you are interested in contributing to our thinking about formats for publishing workforce ethnicity data consistent with the Equality Duty, please leave a...
Fostering a data science innovation culture
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Nicky Zachariou - Head of Data Science (Prisons and Probation), MoJ, Posted on:
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Data science, People and Skills
The GDS data science team conducting a retrospective on 20% time Data science is still an emergent field Data science is a complex, rapidly changing discipline and has an increasingly...
Why we’re talking more about how we collect and analyse data on ethnicity
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Richard Laux - Deputy Director (Data and Analysis), Race Disparity Unit, Posted on:
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Data insights, Open data, Statistics
...how to go about calculating significance. Second, they will help us improve our website if they highlight ways we can better collect, analyse, and publish ethnicity data. For example, our...
Cross-government performance analyst meet-up
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Clare Robinson - Performance Analyst, GDS and Olivia Mckeone - Performance Analyst, GDS, Posted on:
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Events, Google Analytics, Performance Analysis
...could have gone better. We agreed we had strong engagement from across the community, and the event itself ran smoothly with limited technical problems. To improve the event we agreed...
Our new guidance on how to manage data
...The DSA worked with the Technology Policy team at GDS to update point 10 of the TCoP, “Make Better Use of Data”. We have also produced a related guide detailing...
Why data harmonisation is important
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Darren Stillwell - Head of Quality and Standards, Equality Hub, Posted on:
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Data Standards, Statistics
...ethnicity classifications. My colleague Richard Laux previously blogged about his 3 rules underpinning ethnicity data harmonisation. While this blog post focuses on ethnicity, the benefits and barriers are mostly applicable...
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