Data science for the public good

The Campus delivers projects for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), government and wider UK and international organisations.

As a cross-government data science centre of excellence, we are developing world-class data science for public good. We experiment with cutting-edge tools and techniques to deliver better insights for decision-makers to help shape government policy.

Our projects have provided valuable new insights for the ONS and other stakeholders across government and beyond, and our programme spans the economy, trade, the environment and society.

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Our projects

Completed

Project overview	Series number	Output
Payments Data for Public Good		Blog
Supporting the response to Coronavirus (COVID-19)		Blog
Estimating housing conditions and energy efficiency	DSC-12	Blog Report Code
Faster Indicators of UK Economic Activity	DSC-52	Overview report VAT report Shipping report Road traffic data report Article
Extracting economic signals from internet bandwidth consumption data	DSC-11	Report
National Assembly for Wales consultation on the Children’s Bill	DSC-166	Report
Improving garden green space statistics	DSC-40	Report Code
Risk factors for loneliness	DSC-13	Report
UN Global Platform – Mapping the urban forest	DSC-85	Vegetation detection algorithm Image segmentation algorithm
Synthetic data using generative models	DSC-50	Overview report Technical report 1 Technical report 2
Understanding characteristics of high growth firms	DSC-28	Report
Classification of financial services	DSC-24	Overview report Technical report (pdf) Code
How green is your street?	DSC-46	Article (ONS website)
Public transport access to services	DSC-14	Report Code
Mapping the urban forest	DSC-21	Overview report Technical report (pdf) RSS Urban forest talk Google Street View image processing pipeline Visualising the urban forest with R and Shiny Open Street Map code Street View Pipeline code Vegetation-deck.gl code
Categorising contents of lorries in cross-border goods	DSC-18	Overview Report Technical Report Code
Improving the ONS search engine	DSC-23	Report
Analysis of Automatic Identification System (AIS) data to understand shipping and ports	DSC-22	Report Technical report Code
Evaluating calorie intake	DSC-64	Report Code
Economic impact of the UK fishing industry on local areas	DSC-88	Report Web app code and datasets
National Materials Datahub	DSC-69
Automated report generation	DSC-54
Open SDG reporting platform		Platform Blog

Ongoing

SDG 6.6.1. Surface water	DSC-128	Blog
Payments data for public good	DSC-107
Georeferencing historical aerial images	DSC-89
Flows of tenants within social residential accommodation	DSC-87	Blog
Data science for NICE guidance	DSC-72
Novel approaches to the Living Costs and Food Survey	DSC-70
Explore Shipping GPS data for rapid economic indicators	DSC-57
Approaches for producing granular trade statistics	DSC-51
Identifying emerging trends from patent data	DSC-29

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How can I collaborate with the Data Science Campus on a project?

We are always looking for new research projects and collaborations that help us deliver public good through data science. If you would like to collaborate with us on an existing or new project, or if you would like to know more about anything to do with Campus projects then please get in touch.