...data science open, available, and accessible enables scrutiny from Parliament, the public and peers, and enables reuse of code. We work in challenging contexts and our analysis needs to be...
...Code of Practice (TCoP) guidance collection on GOV.UK, which technology teams across government must follow. Updating the spend control process to focus more on data One of the aims of...
...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...
...outlines best practices and practical considerations, including: choosing the right software and format using clear, consistent naming conventions checking for personal and hidden information using application code and formulas appropriately...
...code. This will inspire future developments to the package, completing the development cycle. Aside from the accessibility legislation, the biggest feedback was the need for an R native solution. R...
...content, to multiple lines of code and incomprehensible combinations of characters. To extract insights, colleagues suddenly needed to manually filter out tens of thousands of unusable responses over the year....
...to tidy principles, as is often the case on code-challenge websites. The students enjoyed this difference in working and commented: This was our first time dealing with messy real-world textual...
...the public, safely and responsibly. This reading group offers a chance to step back from day-to-day work and engage more deeply with the ethical challenges of data-driven technologies (including AI),...
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