To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week (6 to 12 February), James Evans, from the Office for National Statistics, discusses its Data Architecture and Engineering Apprenticeship scheme.
As data architects across government, you are interested in both enterprise and technical principles and particularly continuous improvement, so as Chief Data Officer for the Office For National Statistics (ONS), I wanted to share some, hopefully relevant and useful, insights …
The Public Health Data Asset (PHDA) was created at the start of the pandemic to bring together all relevant health data assets. The dynamic project was developed through the collaboration of various ONS teams, including Data Architecture, Data Acquisitions, Operations …
The Office for National Statistics’ Classifications Team in partnership with the Data Standards Authority (DSA) have created a Taxonomy Oversight Group (TOG), which is made up of a community of cross-government and public sector experts to address the lack of …
How we’ve enhanced our Standard Occupational Classification to help better understand the UK jobs market. The Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) is a framework used to classify occupations according to skill level and specialisation. It assigns all jobs a four-digit code …
DataConnect21 is almost here - a week of over 70 free online events and sessions for anyone working with data in the UK government and public sector - 27 September to 1 October. DataConnect21 is co-hosted by the Government Data …
We always try and find ways to explain what Data Architecture is. We even penned a blog about it a few months ago to try and come up with a half decent analogy for it. However, upon a re-watching of …
This page answers some common questions about the cross-Government Data Architecture Community (GDAC). To join, email our Community Manager at data.architecture@ons.gov.uk What is it? GDAC is a cross-government collaborative network and related sub-groups (smaller communities of practice) that brings together …
It’s been several weeks now since we ran our first Show & Tell for the Business Glossaries GDAC subgroup and it took a bit of work to get there. As one of four working ‘subgroups’ we’d been tasked with defining …
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution It’s been a weird old time since March (extra points if you’ve heard that opening before) and the lockdown. However, Data Architecture is continuing to undertake the important work we do making sure the data our …
As more organisations decide to do more with their data, they frequently feel the need for creating a strategy to do so: a Data Strategy. Questions that normally follow this realisation are what exactly is a Data Strategy, what does …
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