500 not out – building data science capacity for the future
The Campus has exceeded a target to train 500 public sector analysts in data science by 2021. The target was originally set in 2018, and recently confirmed in the National Data Strategy.
Careers
We’re hiring a Business Support Officer to provide confidential, dedicated support to the Data Science Campus.
Using Facebook data to understand changing mobility patterns
We have been exploring Facebook data to understand changing patterns of mobility and the impact of lockdown restrictions.
National Apprenticeship Week 2021
To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2021, we asked some of our degree data science apprentices why they chose the apprenticeship, and the impact it has had on their career journey so far.
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.
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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.
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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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