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<p>Since the launch of data.parliament.uk in 2015 the Parliamentary Digital Service
has continued to deliver improvements to the volume and quality of data about the
House and hon. Member activities, with a view to publishing open data for both internal
and external re-use and analysis via the new website.</p><p>The Parliamentary Digital
Service has increased its expertise in working with data through new recruitment and
development of existing staff. New techniques in data science are being investigated,
for example machine learning, with support from colleagues in the Government Digital
Service. Work is ongoing to ensure that data about Parliamentary activity is available
for analysis, to help deliver internal efficiencies and to facilitate research by
colleagues, in particular the House of Commons Library. To deliver the value from
big data analytics it is critical that the underlying data structure schema are consistent
and robust. The Parliamentary Digital Service continues to work on this key enabling
data infrastructure.</p>
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