What’s address matching and why do we need it? Departments, agencies and other service providers will often request and maintain their own address information. However, each organisation will capture slightly different information about an address or may store it in …
We’re making some changes to how the data.gov.uk homepage looks. This will help our users to understand what the site is for, what types of data we have, and how they can search the catalogue. The previous design highlighted open …
The Data Science Accelerator is a cross-government training programme. It’s backed by GDS, the Office for National Statistics, Government Office for Science, and the analytical professions (statistics, economics, operational research and social research). Forty-one people from 26 organisations across the …
New words (and dreaded acronyms) are all too common in government. Sometimes they’re words you’ve never heard before, sometimes they’re words you know but which are used in a different way, and sometimes - the worst times - people use …
Over the past few years, the emergence of data science has allowed organisations across the world to become more effective and efficient, making data-driven, evidence-based decisions, exploiting and realising the true value of the data they collect. The Data Projects …
We’ve talked about registers a lot on this blog. We’ve explained why they’re different to other datasets, shown what they can do, and explored how they can link to one another. We’ve also described them in a little more detail …
On Tuesday we published data access legislation as part of the Digital Economy Bill. The Bill is an important part of what we are seeking to do in GDS to transform our relationship to data and unleash the next decade of …
Better access to reliable and accurate data has the power to improve lives. This is the fundamental building block of all public services and has to be part of any digital transformation. We can see the power of good quality …
Last week saw the launch of the UK’s 2016-18 Open Government National Action Plan - the third plan the government has produced as a member of the global Open Government Partnership. The plan contains an impressive list of commitments, …
Over the last year, the Government Data Science Partnership has been developing a Framework for Data Science Ethics. The framework seeks to help policy makers and data scientists maximise the potential for data science within government, whilst navigating the legal and ethical …
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