Statistics
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Working as a government statistician – Emma Sigfridsson
8th November 2023 by Office of the Chief Statistician
By Emma Sigfridsson, Senior Assistant Statistician in Homelessness Statistics and Analysis The Scottish Government has launched an external recruitment campaign for B1 and B2 Assistant Statisticians. Applications close on 13 November 2023. You might be wondering what statisticians do on a day-to-day basis. This blog series offers some insight into the diversity of roles available...
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Working as a government statistician – Ross Waddell
2nd November 2023 by Office of the Chief Statistician
By Ross Waddell, Assistant Statistician in Education Analytical Services The Scottish Government has launched an external recruitment campaign for B1 and B2 Assistant Statisticians. Applications close on 13 November 2023. An information session to find out more about the application and assessment process will be held on Monday 6 November 2023 from 12:30 to 14:00. You might be wondering what statisticians...
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Working as a government statistician – Eleanor Swift
31st October 2023 by Office of the Chief Statistician
By Eleanor Swift, Assistant Statistician in Corporate Analytical Services The Scottish Government has launched an external recruitment campaign for B1 and B2 Assistant Statisticians. Applications close on 13 November 2023. An information session to find out more about the application and assessment process will be held on Monday 6 November 2023 from 12:30 to 14:00....
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Working as a government statistician in the COVID-19 pandemic – Anouska Pandya
27th October 2023 by Lee Bunce
by Anouska Pandya, Assistant Statistician in Health and Social Care Analysis The Scottish Government has launched an external recruitment campaign for B1 and B2 Assistant Statisticians. Applications close on 13 November 2023. An information session to find out more about the application and assessment process will be held on Monday 6 November 2023 from 12:30...
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One year in – Census and the Future
3rd September 2023 by Ally McAlpine
Keen readers of this blog will know, I took up the post as Interim Chief Statistician in April 2022. A year on, I was pleased to accept the post permanently. In this blog I will share my experiences from the past year and few months. Reading Time: 5 minutes Passion about Statistics to Improve Decision...
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Reproducible Analytical Pipelines: How we saved 3 analysts 6 weeks of copying and pasting
24th July 2023 by Lee Bunce
This blog post is by Alice Byers, Reproducible Analytical Pipeline Developer in Scottish Government. Like most analysts, I’ve spent a lot of time copying and pasting from spreadsheets, analysing data in laborious and manual ways with lots of potential for human error. This is why RAPs – Reproducible Analytical Pipelines – grabbed my attention when...
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Developing the next generation of data scientists
13th July 2023 by Lee Bunce
This blog is by Simon Rogers, Senior Technical Consultant for Business Intelligence, part of Data and Security at NHS National Services Scotland. Here Simon speaks about his experience of being a mentor on the Data Science Accelerator. Throughout my career, I’ve been lucky to have had some excellent mentors. So when I saw the call...
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Our Statistical System – Building Trust in Statistics
15th May 2023 by Ally McAlpine
Recently I have written about the importance of communicating our statistics. But how are we building trust in statistics with our audiences and meeting the wide range of needs to support analysis. I am going to cover how we approach these topics and how this helps us improve our statistical system. And, I will also...
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Published today: Scotland’s Equality Evidence Strategy 2023-2025
24th March 2023 by roannasimspon
Today the Scottish Government’s Equality Analysis team were pleased to publish Scotland’s Equality Evidence Strategy 2023-2025. In this blog I’d like to tell you about the strategy and how it was developed. The strategy presents a refreshed vision, and accompanying principles, for equality evidence improvement and an ambitious three-year programme of work to strengthen Scotland’s...
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Working as a government statistician – Maike Waldmann
8th March 2023 by Helen Davidson
This article has been produced as part of a blog series to spotlight the work of analysts and statisticians across government. In this blog, hear from Maike Waldmann about her work as part of the Poverty and Deprivation Statistics Team. The poverty and deprivation statistics team within the Scottish Government is a team of two,...
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