Counting 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.
Getting the UK coding
This week is National Coding Week – an annual event that aims to inspire young people to code and build digital skills.
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.
The hard reality of being a learning organisation
We conducted a lessons learned exercise to help understand the challenges faced by our teams during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Payments Data for Public Good
The latest update on our work with Barclays exploring if aggregated and anonymised card transactions data could provide significantly quicker, more granular insight into UK consumer spending.
International
Our International programme leads and influences the role of data science, ensuring that it becomes an integral component of a Global Statistical System that works for all National Statistics Organisations (NSO).
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2021 Commonwealth Professional Fellowship programme
The Campus will develop and deliver the 2021 programme in partnership with several Office for National Statistics (ONS) teams and other government departments.
Read more on 2021 Commonwealth Professional Fellowship programmeExtracting, visualising and identifying emerging important terminology from patent collections
We introduce pyGrams – a new Python tool for extracting, visualising and identifying emerging terms in large document collections, such as patents.
Read more on Extracting, visualising and identifying emerging important terminology from patent collectionsBringing MDataGov online with the University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow will offer the MDataGov online in the 2020 to 2021 academic year and will also offer individual modules from the programme this summer.
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