Ensuring privacy using downsampling of streamed images
By Ryan Lewis
How we remove personal information (vehicle number plates) from streamed traffic camera images, in accordance with ONS’ ethical and privacy standards.
Using custom parameters to view multiple metrics on the same page
By Gabe Shires
Make use of Google Data Studio's parameters to provide user-friendly filtering for a range of metrics.
Using custom queries to quickly compare two time series in Google Data Studio
By Mia Hatton
With custom queries you can pre-filter your data and perform on-the-fly calculations and transformations.
Blending Data Using Choromap
By Michael Hodge
Make use of Google Data Studio's Blend to get more out of choromap.
Harder (Easier), better, faster, stronger; choromap-lite for Google Data Studio
By Michael Hodge
A new version of the choromap tool, choromap-lite, which takes a GeoJSON string and appends to data
Creating choropleth maps in Google Data Studio
By Michael Hodge
Using D3 to create a community visualisation in Google’s Data Studio to plot choropleth maps.
Mx Tea: a tea break session planning bot using Slack and Google Cloud Platform
By Michael Hodge
How the Campus uses Slack and Google Cloud Platform to create tea break sessions for informal chats
How the Campus extracted data from the Google Mobility Reports (Covid-19)
By DSC Mobility Analysis Team
How a team at the Campus extracted data from the Google Mobility Reports within 40 hours so it could be used by analysts around the world.
The Campus at DeepLearn 2019
By Michael Hodge
Three members of the Data Science Campus attended the international DeepLearn summer school this year in July. These are their findings.
Using OS Data and CNNs to detect Caravans in Imagery
By Lucie Woellenstein
Ordnance Survey collaborate with the ONS through the Data Science Mentoring Scheme. Feature Extraction - Using OS Data and CNNs to detect Caravans in Imagery.
Balancing Datasets and Generating Synthetic Data with SMOTE
By David Pugh
Dealing with imbalanced datasets in Machine Learning is an important task - but can one popular technique to address this also be used to generate synthetic ...
Infrastructure for the Data Science Campus
By David Pugh
A overview of the infrastructure at the Data Science Campus and how it fits in with the wider ONS platform.
H-Index - A project hackability heuristic
By Phil Stubbings
In part 2 of a Data (driven) Science Campus, I talk about how data relating to our projects can be used to prioritise projects.
Every day I'm wofflin'
By Gareth Clews
A project template which allows you to compose various NLP tasks via a common interface using each of the most popular currently available tools.
Using the Github API to maintain project data
By Phil Stubbings
Data driven Science Campus part I. How we make use of Github and the Github API in our project delivery process.
Visualising the urban forest with R, shiny and leafletjs
By Joe Peskett
Using R/Shiny to visualise data from the urban-forest project
Learning from constraints
By Phil Stubbings
Some thoughts and notes from an interesting DeepLearn 2018 lecture
RSS Urban forest talk
By Phil Stubbings
Annotated slides from Urban forest rapid fire talk at the RSS 2018 conference in Cardiff
Visualising Github commits
By Phil Stubbings
Visualising Github activity using Gource