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.
Software tools
Insight, quickly: analytical tool for plant health
Trees support biodiversity and contribute to wellbeing – a new analytical tool helps us monitor and safeguard them against spread of diseases.
Better access to data to tackle Bovine TB
Bovine TB is a complex and costly disease in cattle. Bringing Defra’s data together and providing better access and tools will really help us to tackle it.
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 …
We're doing things differently
Defra is undergoing transformation. Defra has lots of data. And data is key to delivering ‘the transformation we want’.
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.
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
A pause on activities
We officially enter a pre-election period as of midnight tonight, so there will be no new blog posts until after the election.
Data, emerging technologies, uses and impact
How can we use data, now and in the future? What are emerging technologies and what are their potential uses and impacts? A Defra-Royal Society panel debate asked these and other questions recently.