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The UK Data Service at the NCRM Research Methods e-festival

  • 25 October 2021

We introduce some of the UK Data Service expertise being showcased as part of this week’s NCRM Research Methods e-festival.

Using GIS and spatial data to tackle real-world challenges

  • 18 October 2021

Nadia Kennar, Research Associate from the UK Data Service, explains the benefits of creating rich spatial data, and how GIS analysis can improve understanding of location-based problems and feed into better policy making.

How reading books helps me generate impact

  • 23 August 2021

David Kingman from HM Treasury discusses how reading books on R and Python has helped him achieve more impact from his work as a data scientist.

Why and what do we need to know about data pre-processing?

  • 18 August 2021

Anran Zhao discusses the importance and challenges of good data preparation.

Working with Twitter data

  • 12 April 2021

Joseph Allen discusses how researchers can benefit from using Twitter data for research, and how to get started.

Zooming in the time of Covid-19: 2020 Big Data Summer School successfully goes virtual

  • 10 November 2020

Louise Corti shares the challenges and opportunities from this year’s successful virtual Big Data Summer School at the University of Essex.

Open Data Manchester – still learning at 10 with a little help during lockdown

  • 10 September 2020

Sam Milsom shares how Open Data Manchester has developed over ten years and during the lockdown, while Julia Kasmire from the UK Data Service shares the contribution the Service made to ODM’s Pick N Mix workshops.

UK Data Service Dissertation Award winners

  • 6 August 2020

Jen Buckley introduces the winners of the UK Data Service Dissertation Award, exploring the work the undergraduate researchers have undertaken and what they hope to do next. 

How web-scraping for Covid-19 data could inform policy

  • 16 April 2020

Diarmuid McDonnell discusses how social scientists can access real-time datasets on the Covid-19 outbreak, and how this data might be used to inform policy relating to the crisis.

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