Partnerships
The team supports global capacity development through collaboration with international organisations and statistical agencies.
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Global System for International Classification of Diseases
The Data Science Campus International team has been partnering with the Iris Institute to support the software development roadmap to improve coding of causes of death.
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European Statistical System Web Intelligence Network
The team has been partnering with Eurostat on use of web data for official statistics
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Advancing official statistics through web data and international partnerships
We have been partnering with the European Statistical System Network (ESSnet) Trusted Smart Statistics – Web Intelligence Network project (WIN) since April 2021. With the objective of providing comparable statistics at EU level for all members.
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International Data Science Accelerator Programme
The Data Science Campus has designed the International Data Science Accelerator mentoring programme in collaboration with the United Nations (UN) Big Data Task Team
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What is the International Data Science Accelerator Programme?
The Data Science Campus has designed the International Data Science Accelerator mentoring programme in collaboration with the United Nations (UN) Big Data Task Team on Training, Competencies and Capacity Development.
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UK data science on a global stage
At the World Expo in Dubai, we supported other National Statistics Organisations to develop their data science capability by delivering a series of workshops, training sessions and discussions.
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Examples of International Data Science Accelerator projects
Here are some examples of projects from the first cohort of the International Data Science Accelerator programme, including testimonials from mentors and mentees.
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Technical report: Predicting cattle camp locations in South Sudan from Sentinel 2 satellite imagery
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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Mentoring without borders – growing data science skills internationally
The International Data Science Accelerator Programme opened for its’ first applicants on 31 January. We spoke to Fatima Al Taharhwa (Department of Statistics, Jordan) and her mentor Hatem El Sherif (Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre, United Arab Emirates), who took part in the pilot programme.
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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.
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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.
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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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Detecting Trucks in East Africa
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
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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Leading international collaboration in machine learning for official statistics
How the Data Science Campus and UNECE are continuing to lead international collaboration on Machine Learning for Official Statistics through the ML 2021 group.
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ONS-UNECE Machine Learning 2021 Group
The Campus is partnering with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) to to develop research, build skills and share resources on Machine Learning developments and applications for official statistics across the global statistical community.
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Counting cows in South Sudan
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
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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2021 Commonwealth Professional Fellowship programme
The Campus will develop and deliver the 2021 programme in partnership with several Office for National Statistics (ONS) teams and other government departments.
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Tuli Amutenya is a Graduate Data Scientist from the Namibia Statistics Agency who has spent the last 6 months at ONS. Here, Tuli shares her experiences and the learning she will be taking home.
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Welcoming Statistics Indonesia
In the last quarter of 2018 the Campus welcomed delegates from Statistics Indonesia to exchange experience in growing data science skills across government, as they prepare to launch their own Masters programme and Centre for Big Data Statistics.
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The month that was – June 2018
So, June was notable for (i) more uninterrupted sunshine than I can remember in the UK; (ii) the short-lived excitement…
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The month that was – May 2018
Where do the days go? It’s already time for my latest update – providing an overview of what happened in the…
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The months that were – March and April 2018
Here’s the latest “monthly” update for the Data Science Campus, covering both March and April 2018. We took a break…
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The month that was – February 2018 (plus a bit)
Here’s our latest monthly update for the Data Science Campus, covering February 2018. We’ve taken the liberty of stretching the…
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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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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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Data Science Campus hits the world stage
The Data Science Campus at ONS in Newport had barely celebrated its first 100 days when a few of the…
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) Data Science Campus is keen to collaborate with partner organisations both in the UK…
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Hello! My name is Solange and I am one of the Academic Managers for the Data Science Campus. Since joining…
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