Data science for the public good

Technical report: Predicting cattle camp locations in South Sudan from Sentinel 2 satellite imagery

• Data Science Campus
• May 5, 2022

Cattle are central to many people’s livelihoods in South Sudan, but there are very few recent data on the number of animals and their geographic distribution. Building on previous work, this blog explores new methods, based on convolutional neural networks, that can better distinguish cattle camps from similar landscape features.

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Making an international impact with data science mentoring

• Data Science Campus
• December 13, 2021

Categories: Capability, International, News

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.

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Detecting Trucks in East Africa

• Data Science Campus
• August 25, 2021

Categories: International, International Development, News, Projects

Many countries in the developing world lack regular estimates of road traffic activity. To address this, we applied machine learning techniques to open-source satellite data to generate estimates of traffic volume in Kenya, East Africa.

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Mapping HIV risk in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa

• Data Science Campus
• June 9, 2021

Categories: International, International Development, News, Projects

We have been exploring if machine learning methods and publicly available spatial datasets can be used to map and understand HIV risk in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa.

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Counting cows in South Sudan

• Data Science Campus
• October 20, 2020

Categories: International Development, News, Projects

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.

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International Programmes Team

• Data Science Campus
• July 23, 2020

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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AI for International Development

• Data Science Campus
• March 26, 2019

Categories: News

We’ve partnered with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office to launch a new Hub at their offices in East Kilbride.

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