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Transformation in the Ghana Statistical Service
Using data science and automation in the production of price statistics
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The Longitudinal Business Database: Capturing the UK economy with new business microdata
The LBD is at its core a re-usable longitudinal data spine with each of its component providing the longitudinal link between business references. Data spine is a new concept.
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A data science approach to estimate the use of natural spaces: a feasibility study
We demonstrate the use of a range of freely available anonymised and aggregated novel datasets to estimate visitation counts to natural areas.
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Using Natural Language Processing for the analysis of global supply chains
We have been working with the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) to show how data science techniques can enable and enhance the analysis of global supply chains.
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Paving the way for accessible data science training in the public sector
A large-scale accessibility audit of many courses and presentation templates on the Learning Hub and the ONS website in 2021 revealed many accessibility issues that would impact users of screen reader technology.
In this blog post Jake Marshall talks about the process I developed and why this project is important not only to the Campus, but to him personally.
Bringing the world to ONS: Working together on data science and big data
We welcomed guests from 26 national and international organisations at our offices in Newport, including partners from Rwanda, Brazil, Thailand, Lebanon, Jordan and Canada.
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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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Graduate Induction Week
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.
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Taking Reproducible Analytical Pipelines on a virtual tour: first stop the Caribbean
We worked with Statistics Canada to help build data science skills in the Caribbean community, delivering virtual Reproducible Analytical Pipelines training to 12 nations over 5 time zones.
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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.
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Data Science Accelerator Programme
Across the public sector, analysts can benefit from the Data Science Accelerator, which opened for a new cohort of applications this week.
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Increased demand in the data science job market
Every day our digital footprint is growing through simple activities like shopping, meaning nearly every industry is seeking data science skills.
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The months that were – December 2017 and January 2018
Following a brief midwinter break, here is our bumper two-month update, covering December 2017 and January 2018. The Campus continues…
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The month that was – November 2017
Here’s our update for November, the month when the Campus won an award and had the privilege of welcoming numerous…
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The month that was – October 2017
This is our monthly update for October 2017 – one of a series of regular snapshots that highlight some of…
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The month that was – September 2017
This is our monthly update for September – one of a series of regular snapshots on what we’ve been doing…
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Volunteering at the 2017 Data for Policy conference
Two of our Data Analytics apprentices, Charlotte O’Brien and Alexis Fernquest, share their experiences as volunteers at the 2017 Data…
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The month that was – August 2017
Welcome to “the month that was”, providing you with a snapshot of what we’ve been doing this month to support…
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The month that was – July 2017
Welcome to the first of our monthly updates – a regular snapshot on what we’ve been doing to support data…
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The first 100 days
It is 100 days since the Data Science Campus officially opened our doors to help the Office for National Statistics…
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We are officially open for business
The Data Science Campus celebrated a significant achievement on Monday 27 March, as it opened its doors for the first…
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Data science for public good
Welcome to the ONS Data Science Campus. I’m Tom Smith, Managing Director for the Campus. On 27 March, Minister for…
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