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Guerrilla statistics

Posted by: David Lee, Posted on: 18 April 2017 - Categories: Data Transformation, Defra digital, Digital transformation, Open data, Software tools
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Last year I was lucky enough to get on to the GDS Data Science Accelerator. On this scheme participants offer their enthusiasm to learn data science and their time to work on a project of potential value to their departments. …

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Inductions for teams, not just organisations

Posted by: James Cattell, Posted on: 18 April 2017 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
A daily standup (left to right @jaCattell, @d_jburton, @ewebber and @PhilipBowen_Dig)

A blog from James Cattell about being inducted to the Defra Digital team and his thoughts on comparing this to a traditional organisation induction.

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