...1 day per week for 12 weeks to your project, usually spending the day at one of the hubs (London, Manchester, Newcastle, Newport, Sheffield, or Taunton). You will get the...
...by step navigation. In a recent podcast, outgoing GOV.UK head Neil Williams talked about these things as evidence the site is ‘iterating wildly’ again. None of this exciting new work...
...said before, better data means better decisions! As a result of our current focus, preparing GOV.UK for exiting the European Union (EU) on GOV.UK, an opportunity arose to use mixed...
...of datasets, over quality. By publishing more and more datasets, it can make it hard to find the ones that are useful for you. Work should be done to ensure...
...this work helped me transition to my current role. Mentoring has been a great experience; you get to see and support someone else's learning, but also you learn a lot...
...One government department told us that their people managed data using spreadsheets around 60% of the time. On GOV.UK alone, we found 31,121 files with spreadsheet extensions (like .ods, .xlsx...
...Mixed, White, Other) or the more detailed categorisation (into 18 ethnic groups), as used in the Census? In making this decision we balanced two considerations. On the one hand, we...
...combining data for more than one year. I'd recommend that those responsible for data about teachers, children’s social workers, police and firefighters should take steps to include the Chinese group...
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...
...by mobile phone network across the railways. In conversations with people on different mobile phone networks I had never twigged that the degree of signal loss I experience is not...