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Experience is what you get instead of what you wanted

Posted by: Tom Ewing, Principal Data Scientist, Department for Transport, Posted on: 6 September 2018 - Categories: Data Science, Digital

...‘junk text’ of no value to the analysis (for example signatures, virus scanning text). We spent a lot of time building a machine learning algorithm to solve this issue. It...

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Teaching computers to read

Posted by: Will Bowditch, Data Scientist, Data Science Team, Department for Transport, Posted on: 30 August 2018 - Categories: Data Science, Digital, Open Data
computer reading news

...put HALF a Mini car at top of the 'Nuneaton nipple' - but why?” Coventry Live “Drivers are angry at queues of 'more than two hours' to get out of...

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Applying data science to policy

Posted by: Tom Ewing, Principal Data Scientist, Department for Transport, Posted on: 16 August 2018 - Categories: Data Science, Digital, Service Design

Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash One of the great things about working at the Department for Transport (DfT) is that it’s a really outward-facing department. During my 3 years...

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