...(for example, White Irish or White Gypsy and Irish Traveller). Some of these issues are described in an RDU report. And as mentioned above, each public body can decide for...
...but are particularly useful for code in text files for example R or Python code. Whilst git can be used locally on a single machine, or many networked machines, git...
...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...
...lead to differences in classifications between countries. In the US, the categories ‘American Indian’ and ‘Alaska Native’ are part of the minimum standard for maintaining, collecting, and presenting data on...
...take place. Tax-Free Childcare is a new Government service, offering support to working parents with their childcare costs. The purpose of the service is to either help parents back into...
...NLP is used to interpret unstructured text data, such as free-text notes or survey feedback. It can help us look for similarities and uncover patterns in what people have written,...
...surprising: 53% of the time, manual coders disagreed about how a survey should be coded. We can see this in the chart below, which shows how often volunteer coders applied...
...is a free library for fast and accurate record linkage, which is now in its third version. It has the following key features: Faster and more accurate than other free...
...free tools that I use to convert postcode data into useful maps. My example shows sample data of football stadiums in Great Britain. Mapping Sheets This Google Sheets add-on allows...
MeasureCamp is a free, informal ‘unconference’ for digital analysts, held on a Saturday in London twice a year. Its objective is ‘the transfer of knowledge’, and everyone is encouraged to...
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