Data Science Campus

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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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. 

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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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