Government Data Science Festival 2022
The Data Science Festival 2022 call for session proposals has been extended until 28 January 2022.
How international collaboration is advancing machine learning in official statistics
In 2021, the ONS-UNECE machine learning group demonstrated the benefits of international cooperation for advancing machine learning in official statistics.
Data Science and Data Visualisation Accelerator
Applications for the Data Science Accelerator mentoring programme are now open until 4 February 2022.
Estimating vehicle and pedestrian activity from town and city traffic cameras
We have released a new version of our open codebase to enable the Traffic Cameras project to run on a single, stand-alone laptop as well as on Google Cloud Platform, making it more accessible to users without cloud infrastructure.
Making an international impact with data science mentoring
Our FCDO hub’s mentorship model has helped countries, including Rwanda and Vanuatu, deliver in-house data science projects with significant impact, while also creating a flourishing sustainable ecosystem of data scientists.
Data Science Graduate Programme
We are now accepting bids from UK public sector organisations for places on the programme starting in autumn 2022. Organisations will need to confirm their bid for places by 31st January 2022.
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Boost your data science and visualisation skills in 2022!
The Data Science and Data Visualisation Accelerator mentoring programmes will open for applications in January 2022.
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In 2021, our highly successful Data Science Graduate Programme has been expanded across the UK pubic sector. We have offered 50 places on the programme, located in 10 public sector organisations. 25 places were offered to new graduates, selected from 511 applications. An additional 25 places have also been offered to 25 analysts already in posts, who want to significantly increase their data science skills.
Read more on Graduate Induction WeekSupporting improved social mobility through data science
This summer, data science apprentices in our faculty worked with young people from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, introducing them to data science and supporting them to start developing skills in the field.
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