Digital
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A shared destiny for public sector data
18th October 2024 by deborahamzil
Blog post by Shona Nicol, Head of Technical Data Policy, Data Division, Digital Directorate. As a data professional, it can sometime feel hard to get others interested in data. Perhaps like many in this profession, I can often express the importance and value of data for good in an overly technical way. However when our...
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Exploring public sector challenges through the lens of data: The 2024 Data Science Accelerator
11th September 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Joyce Dalgleish, Data Innovation and Change Lead, Scottish Government. The Scottish Data Science Accelerator offers an annual development opportunity for public sector staff to build data science skills through the exploration of a real-life public sector data challenge with the support of a mentor. On 4 September, our year 7 cohort came together to...
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Next-Generation Metadata Catalogue: Revolutionising Data Discovery in the Scottish Public Sector
3rd September 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Masood Alam, Chief Data Architect, and Catherine Ojo, Lead Data Scientist, from the Scottish Government’s Data Division. In a time when data drives decision-making, the Scottish public sector is making a significant move with the prospective development of a state-of-the-art Federated Data Catalogue and Metadata Repository, using machine learning & graph analytics. This...
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Open Data in Scotland : A Blueprint for Unlocking Innovation, Collaboration and Impact
29th August 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
This blog has been written by Martin Macfie, Head of Open Data in the Digital Directorate’s Data Division to announce the publication of an independent report on open data for the Scottish Government. Publication of report In May 2024, I wrote a blog which outlined Scottish Government commissioned research to better understand the benefits, challenges...
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Data Science Accelerator – It’s about the journey not the destination
26th August 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Guest blog post by Lilly Herridge, Senior Assistant Statistician, National Records of Scotland. Next week sees the launch of the 2024 Data Science Accelerator, a public sector programme that supports innovation in the use and analysis of data. I’m now part of the judging panel that selects projects for this programme but back in 2018,...
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Call for action from the Digital Directorate. Can you help us to build a public participation platform?
31st July 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Michaela Omelkova, Data Ethicist, Data Division. In the Scottish Government, we believe that actively listening to and acting on public opinion is essential to good governance. Public participation is after all a key aspect of modern democracy, and one of the building blocks of our trustworthiness. At the moment, the Scottish Government uses...
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Back to the Future: Building a vision for public sector data
11th July 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Guest blog post by Albert King, Chief Data Officer, NHS National Services Scotland. Earlier this year, The Scottish Government put out a call inviting people to come together to co-create a long-term vision for public sector data in Scotland. This is clearly something people care deeply about as we had a great response, from which,...
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Leveraging new technologies to shape innovative engineering solutions
28th June 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Guest blog by Georgia Boura, Graduate Civil Engineer, Transport Scotland. As the national transport agency for Scotland, it’s essential for Transport Scotland to understand travel behaviour across the country. The traditional way to do this is through travel surveys, however collecting data in this way is time and cost intensive and therefore these cannot be...
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Moving open data forward – the Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities of Open Data for Producers, Users and Leaders
8th May 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
This blog has been written by Martin Macfie, Head of Open Data in the Digital Directorate’s Data Division, in which he discusses recent work to better understand the benefits, challenges and opportunities of Open Data. What we’ve been doing We need to be more strategic in the way we approach the publishing, messaging and culture...
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Data maturity information sessions for public sector organisations
1st May 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Sally Kerr, Data Transformation Lead in Digital Directorate’s Technical Data Policy team. Better use of data is fundamental to driving efficiency and innovation in our public services and our economy, to deliver better outcomes for the people of Scotland. For public sector organisations to understand how to use their data effectively, it is...
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