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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This report summarises our work to meet widespread demand for better automated and higher quality solutions to this problem, by using machine learning (ML) methods to improve the match rate and accuracy of automatic classification of SIC and SOC classifications.
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This summer, data science apprentices in our faculty worked with young people from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, introducing them to data science and supporting them to start developing skills in the field.
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In this guest blog, Robyn Hunt from the ONS travel and tourism review team looks at using mobility data to model estimates from the International Passenger Survey.
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The Data Science Campus Faculty equips practitioners across the UK public sector and internationally with leading-edge skills in data science.
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Description It is a truth well established that today’s world is awash with data and just about all of it…
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Description One of the most challenging aspects of public services is pressure resulting from changing demand. This makes resource allocation…
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This course catalogue provides you with information about the analytical courses available on the Office for National Statistics’ Learning Hub.
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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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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.
Read more on Detecting Trucks in East AfricaOn Wednesday 14 July 2021, we held a virtual open day for prospective students of the Master’s in Data Analytics…
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As a Data Scientist/Analyst at the Campus, you will have a passion for data science and using it for the…
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As a Data Scientist/Analyst at the Campus, you will have a passion for data science and using it for the public good. You will relish the challenge presented by delivering benefits from the broad span of Campus projects.
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Please check out our webpage for updates on the up and coming seminar in our Data Science Economic Seminar Series.
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The Data Masterclass helps senior leaders across UK government, the public sector and devolved administrations put data and evidence at the heart of their organisation.
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In this report, we talk about our use of novel machine and deep learning techniques to explore changes in population behaviour and well-being during the coronavirus pandemic.
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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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Applications are open for the 2021 Data Science Graduate Programme until 3 June 2021. This year’s programme has been expanded to offer places at several high-profile public-sector organisations.
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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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The Campus has exceeded a target to train 500 public sector analysts in data science by 2021. The target was originally set in 2018, and recently confirmed in the National Data Strategy.
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We have been exploring Facebook data to understand changing patterns of mobility and the impact of lockdown restrictions.
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We will host Dr Özgür Şimşek from the University of Bath at the next session of the data science seminar series on Tuesday 20 April.
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To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2021, we asked some of our degree data science apprentices why they chose the apprenticeship, and the impact it has had on their career journey so far.
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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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This blog outlines some of the work the Campus has been doing, bringing our skills together with new data sources to help inform responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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A report on the quality and methodology of data used to produce extent and change of surface water statistics for reporting on Sustainable Development Goals indicator 6.6.1 for the UK.
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In this blog, we describe how we have assessed the quality of the novel Global Surface Water Explorer (GSWE) dataset to better understand its value and fitness-for-purpose, producing data to report the UK’s position on indicator 6.6.1.
Read more on Using satellite imagery to report changes to water bodies for SDG 6.6.1This course is delivered through the Jupyter notebook application.
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We used text data from over 500,000 business websites to inform survey response-chasing efforts and gain insights into the impact of COVID-19.
Read more on Extracting text data from business website COVID-19 noticesItem Lead Discussion points 1 Introductions Tom Smith 1.1 Tom Smith welcomed Members to the sixth meeting of the…
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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.
Read more on Counting cows in South SudanThis accessibility statement applies to the Data Science Campus website, which is run by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)….
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This week is National Coding Week – an annual event that aims to inspire young people to code and build digital skills.
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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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The latest update on our work with Barclays exploring if aggregated and anonymised card transactions data could provide significantly quicker, more granular insight into UK consumer spending.
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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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The Campus will develop and deliver the 2021 programme in partnership with several Office for National Statistics (ONS) teams and other government departments.
Read more on 2021 Commonwealth Professional Fellowship programmeThis course introduces the basics of carrying out a statistical analysis in Python.
Read more on Statistics for Data ScienceThis course introduces students to the grammar of graphics and building a plot using ggplot2.
Read more on Data Visualisation in RThis course gives the essential knowledge to get started with a data science project in R using the Tidyverse package.
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Large volumes of unstructured, free-text data such as patent applications, contain potentially valuable information for policymakers. Here we describe the pipeline used to process such data sources.
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In this report, we focus primarily on how the pyGrams tool can be used to analyse terms through time using the time stamps in document metadata.
Read more on Discovering emerging important terminology in large text datasets using pyGrams: a comparison between net growth and e-score methods We introduce pyGrams – a new Python tool for extracting, visualising and identifying emerging terms in large document collections, such as patents.
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The University of Glasgow will offer the MDataGov online in the 2020 to 2021 academic year and will also offer individual modules from the programme this summer.
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The Degree Data Science Apprenticeship offers an opportunity to work at the heart of data science while studying for a BSc degree with a university in England and Wales.
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On International Day of Girls in ICT 2020, Harriet Sands talks about her journey into data science, what it’s like to work as a data scientist in government and how she would encourage a younger version of herself to get in to data science.
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We are pleased to announce Cardiff University as the latest provider to join the MDataGov Framework from October 2020.
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We are exploring new data sources such as Google’s Community Mobility Reports to strengthen the information that we have through surveys and other sources.
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Registration is now open for the 2020 MDataGov Symposium! Former, current and prospective MDataGov students are invited to showcase data science research and projects conducted within government, and share experiences.
Read more on MDataGov Symposium 2020Item Lead Discussion points 1 Introductions Tom Smith, Frankie Kay 1.1 Tom Smith welcomed Members to the fifth meeting…
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Our latest project investigates the use of machine learning techniques to predict missing energy performance scores. It also attempts to create a complete picture of the energy efficiency profile for domestic properties in Wales.
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To mark National Apprenticeship Week, our Data Science Degree apprentices share their progress and the difference they are making at the Data Science Campus.
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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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This article summarises further development we have carried out to improve the timeliness and relevance of the shipping indicators, in response to feedback from our users.
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How data science is helping to address the challenge of measuring the Sustainable Development goals in the UK.
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In this guest blog, the Jean Golding Institute data challenge winners, explore if there’s an association between the Loneliness Index scores and movement for education.
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Today we published latest release of new, faster, indicators of economic activity constructed from novel data sources.
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Can non-standard data sources help us understand the relationship between management practices and high growth?
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Extracting social-economic signals from internet traffic data.
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Our new Schools Engagement Strategy in partnership with Techniquest, aims to build science capital in primary aged children.
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Bringing data science to the heart of decision-making.
Read more on Automating consultation analysisItem Lead Discussion points 1 Introductions Tom Smith 1.1 Tom Smith welcomed Members to the fourth meeting of the…
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Improving the current approach to identifying the proportion of vegetation for urban residential gardens in Great Britain.
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Applications are now open for civil servants to study MDataGov modules at ONS in 2020.
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Data Science Accelerator mentee Ciaran Evans from the UK Hydrographic Office attempts to answer the question “What is the beach made of?”
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The Data Science Campus launches its first Data Science Graduate Scheme.
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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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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 Campus is supporting colleagues in statistical organisations across the world to take advantage of new data and techniques in their work.
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We are pleased to sponsor another cohort of Civil Servants to start the Masters in Data Analytics for Government in the 2019-2020 academic year.
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Last week I had the privilege of helping to organise the second annual MDataGov Symposium in Manchester and was so proud to see how incredibly fast the community is growing – Solange Correa-Onel
Read more on Highlights from the MDataGov Symposium 2019 in Manchester Education, learning and development are at the heart of The Campus’s aims. In 2018, 32 students registered on the Masters…
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Today marks two years since the opening of the Campus. We look back at the highlights and impact, and look forward to what’s next.
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We’ve partnered with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office to launch a new Hub at their offices in East Kilbride.
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We are currently using open data sets to develop a better understanding of loneliness in England. Are there places in England where people are more likely to be lonely and why?
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The new Data Science Degree Apprenticeship is now live for delivery. Alison Adams shares her experience of leading the Trailblazer group to develop an innovative new learning pathway.
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Our current cohort of apprentices have just finished their training modules and are well on their way to completing their apprenticeships. Lucy and Joe tell us about their journey so far, as part of National Apprenticeship Week.
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Many datasets contain variables that consist of short free-text descriptions of items or products. This technical report describes how we developed and implemented a natural language processing (NLP) pipeline that produces a well structured and hierarchical dataset.
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To mark the 12th annual National Apprenticeship Week, we caught up with some of our first data analytics apprentices now they have successfully completed their apprenticeship.
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Synthetic data mimics essential characteristics from the original dataset, creating new, substitute data that does not represent any real person, removing confidentiality requirements.
Read more on Synthetic data for public good and artNatural Language Processing is a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence. It is used for processing and analysing large amounts of natural language.
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Social media is such a key part of everyday life and with the data readily available online, it has the potential to change the way we collect information to understand society. However, it is paramount that data sources used in the production of official statistics are accurate, relevant, unbiased, and most importantly, they must be used ethically.
Read more on Exploring the value of social media dataPeter Fullerton, Anya Crisp-Patterson, DSCAB Secretariat, July 2018,
Read more on Data Science Campus Advisory Board – 30 November 2018 Registration for the 2019 MSc in Data Analytics for Government (MDataGov) Symposium is now open. The annual Symposium is an opportunity for…
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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.
Read more on Welcoming Statistics Indonesia High growth businesses drive economic growth in the UK. Therefore, understanding the characteristics that may lead to high performance is an area of active research.
Read more on Understanding the characteristics of high growth companies using non-traditional data sourcesThis 1 day course will introduce you to the building blocks of R including objects, vectors, and data frames and will examine common data types.
Read more on Introduction to RThis course is delivered through the Jupyter notebook application. Participants should attain a good understanding of basic data types in Python and associated methods and constructs that can be applied to them.
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Following the graduation of our first data analyst level 4 apprentices, we launched the first Data Science Degree Apprenticeship in Wales, with the first round of applications now complete.
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