...contribute to improvements in the development, design and deployment of algorithmic tools across the public sector. It enables those who build, deploy, use, or regulate these tools to identify any...
...the tool attached to the ‘Take a registration off a vehicle’ service. This was simply to provide context on how the tool will be used, but the service itself was...
...our work more productive and focused. As a regulator, we’re shifting our guidance away from “don’t do” to “how to”. Similarly, we needed our use of data to “show, not...
...to do this the first time you run it The script needs to be saved and authorised The code You can paste the code straight into the script editor window....
...of course, but analysis as code is a better place to start. We shy away from proprietary tools because we feel that users should be able to inspect our working...
...to go into encouraging current users who are used to and expect telephone support, to shift to self-serve through the new service. There are some shared roles across the services...
...learned. It will be critical to continue this relationship in order to ensure users have a common experience between services, and to ensure efficient use of taxpayer money. The service...
...Informing the use and interpretation of ethnicity data These reports will discuss: how we use relative likelihoods to understand how big disparities are between different ethnic groups the impact 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...
...two caveats, however. How long users spend on each question isn’t that easy to measure. However, we felt this was acceptable, as the alternative would be to take a completely...
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