GOV.UK
Process once - use everywhere
Defra group has the potential to simplify its access to satellite data and transform how we monitor and manage the UK’s landscape.
Open data
Building capacity and capability into our teams: Gaining analytical insight with R
When building a multifunctional team to demonstrate the power and potential of data, we think it's important to upskill whenever and wherever possible. In the Data Programme, we're learning all the time, as this post about taking a course in …
Transforming Together
Some impressions from John Seglias, Defra Group Chief Technology Officer, about last week's Transforming Together event - which was hosted by Defra group
We're doing things differently
Defra is undergoing transformation. Defra has lots of data. And data is key to delivering ‘the transformation we want’.
Gill Lewis at #DataMash
In this last in a series of interview with participants at DataMash, we spoke to Gill Lewis from the Geospatial information team in the Rural Payments Agency about the Ethics of data release, and broadening participation in the conversations we're …
Abby Lane from the Environment Agency at #DataMash
Having conversations is the first step towards forging stronger relationships to improve how we work. Here, the Environment Agency's Abby Lane chats to us about the value of being able to meet up and talk to other people in Defra …
ODI CEO Jeni Tennison on #DefraData at# DataMash
We spoke to the Open Data Institute's Chief Executive Officer Jeni Tennison about data at Defra at the end of Day 1 of our un/conference with Ordnance Survey last month.
Isabel Sargent @OrdnanceSurvey talks #machinelearning at #DataMash
At #DataMash, We spoke to Senior Research Scientist Isabel Sargent from the Change and Business Innovation team at Ordnance Survey about Machine Learning. This is what she had to say.
Matt from Drawnalism at DataMash
On the first day of DataMash, the Defra Data Programme's two-day un/conference with Ordnance Survey in Southampton, we spoke to Matt from conference visual recording artists Drawnalism about their work.
DataMash: thank you!
On 24–25 May 2017, Defra and Ordnance Survey ran a two-day un/conference (that's part conference, part unconference) at the Ordnance Survey Headquarters at Southampton. These photos capture a little bit of the magic that happened there...thanks to David Tait, Mattie Yeta