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Using credit card payments data for the public good

Tom Smith
December 13, 2017

Categories: Data, Economy

The intelligent use of data gathered by our leading financial institutions can result in faster, more detailed economic statistics. Tom Smith describes how a joint event staged by ONS and Barclaycard illustrates the vast statistical potential of anonymised payments data.

Tom Smith
March 31, 2017

Categories: Data, Office for National Statistics, ONS

The new ONS Data Science Campus at Newport opened this week. Tom Smith reflects on an important day both for UK government data science and the continuing transformation of ONS.

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Using credit card payments data for the public good

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