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Making it simpler to publish data

Posted by: Maria Izquierdo, Posted on: 1 February 2017 - Categories: Data.gov.uk

We've been making improvements to the publishing process on data.gov.uk to make it easier for users to find the information they need.

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Making registers easier to copy

Posted by: Ellie Craven, Posted on: 23 January 2017 - Categories: Data Infrastructure, Registers

...each characteristic helps registers remain authoritative and up to date. These aspects are integral to the value of registers, so we need to be sure they’re underpinned by solid technical...

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Building data infrastructure for personal data

Posted by: Irina Bolychevsky, Posted on: 19 January 2017 - Categories: Data Infrastructure

...This is part of the broader data infrastructure work we’re doing which includes open registers and the transformation of data.gov.uk. We’re a fairly new team within GDS exploring the best...

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The Accelerator: trains, forecasts and GCSE results

Posted by: David Wilks, Posted on: 16 January 2017 - Categories: Data Science

We are now open for applications to the next round of the Data Science Accelerator, so it’s a good moment to give a flavour of the programme based on our most recent graduation. This was the sixth cohort to go through …

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8 things I learned about data discoveries

Posted by: Kieron Kirkland, Posted on: 9 January 2017 - Categories: Data Infrastructure

The teams working on Data Infrastructure at GDS have just completed three discoveries.  We’ve walked away with some great products, but also some good learning about what does and doesn’t work when doing discovery. Scope the brief   Discovery is …

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Data Science Accelerator - apply now!

Posted by: David Wilks, Posted on: 4 January 2017 - Categories: Data Science

The Data Science Accelerator is a cross-government training programme. 49 people from 31 public sector organisations have already taken part, and have consistently told us what great opportunities it gives them in their careers. Below is a video showing participants …

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Territory register goes into beta

Posted by: Richard Vale, Posted on: 19 December 2016 - Categories: Data Infrastructure, Registers

...be supporting the FCO in its efforts to identify any new registers they would like to create next year. True to form, our recent post on the registers we’re working...

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We want to understand more about our readers

Posted by: Sophie Benger, Posted on: 8 December 2016 - Categories: Blog, Government Data Programme

We enjoy talking about data. In fact, we enjoy talking about it so much we have two blogs on the subject: Data in Government (this blog) and Data at GDS. To date we’ve used the Data at GDS blog to …

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How we describe Data Infrastructure products and services

Posted by: Tom Hughes, Posted on: 5 December 2016 - Categories: Data Infrastructure, Government Data Programme

...agreeing a common language for registers and clarifying how we talk about addresses, we’ve been looking at how we describe the work we do around publishing, managing and sharing data....

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The register of schools in England goes into alpha

Posted by: Richard Vale, Posted on: 29 November 2016 - Categories: Data Infrastructure, Government Data Programme, Registers

...registers we could be working with DfE on next. Putting registers to use Registers are valuable in and of themselves as trustworthy, up-to-date sources of information, and that value is...

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