Data Science Accelerator
Applications are now open for the latest cohort of the Data Science Accelerator programme until 12 February 2021.
We’re hiring!
We’re hiring a Data Science Lecturer to develop and deliver high quality and research-led teaching at both undergraduate and graduate level equivalencies.
ONS-UNECE Machine Learning 2021 Group
The Campus is partnering with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) to to develop research, build skills and share resources on Machine Learning developments and applications for official statistics across the global statistical community.
Extracting text data from business website COVID-19 notices
We used text data from over 500,000 business websites to inform survey response-chasing efforts and gain insights into the impact of COVID-19.
Estimating vehicle and pedestrian activity from traffic cameras
Using deep learning algorithms with publicly available traffic camera images to help understand changing patterns of mobility and activity levels in towns and cities.
AI for International Development
We’ve partnered with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office to launch a new Hub at their offices in East Kilbride.
Latest News
Understanding mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic
This blog outlines some of the work the Campus has been doing, bringing our skills together with new data sources to help inform responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Read more on Understanding mobility during the COVID-19 pandemicUsing satellite imagery to report changes to water bodies for SDG 6.6.1
In this blog, we describe how we have assessed the quality of the novel Global Surface Water Explorer (GSWE) dataset to better understand its value and fitness-for-purpose, producing data to report the UK’s position on indicator 6.6.1.
Read more on Using satellite imagery to report changes to water bodies for SDG 6.6.1Counting cows in South Sudan
On World Statistics Day 2020, our ONS FCDO Data Science Hub talk about exploring the use of satellite imagery to conduct a cattle census in South Sudan.
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