Following a collaboration with the BBC and Micro:bit Foundation ONS Director, Mary Gregory, shares how the results of a playground…
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With the public release of large language models like Chat GPT putting Artificial Intelligence (AI) firmly on our radar, the…
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Hear how ONS has joined BBC micro:bit – the next gen campaign to help UK primary schools discover more about their playgrounds whilst taking part in a nationwide survey.
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Global issues, such as climate change, population growth and inflation to name a few, are best understood with the benefit of good global statistics. So, to that end, the ONS works in partnership with a number of countries worldwide with the ultimate aim of raising the world’s statistical capabilities.
In the latest episode of Statistically Speaking, podcast host Miles Fletcher chats to the head of the Ghanaian Statistical Service, Professor Samuel Annim; Emily Poskett, Head of International Development at the ONS; and Tim Harris of the ONS Data Science Campus’s international development team, about what international partnerships are achieving.
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For the first time the ONS has published new data on UK Direct Debits. This new, fast and anonymised data source provides insight on consumer payments to most of the UK’s largest companies. Dragos Cozma describes how the ONS has developed this new data source with our partners at Vocalink and Pay.UK and what it tells us about the UK economy.
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