[Job opportunity] We are hiring a Data Engineer. Get in touch if you are interested in building data tools and infrastructure to help us advance ambitious innovation missions around health, social mobility and sustainability. More information here: nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-engi…

Check out the Open Jobs Observatory, a Nesta pilot project providing free and timely insights on the skills requested by employers in UK job adverts. It’s a first step towards improving Labour Market Information in the UK. bit.ly/3zqRzCJ #OpenJobsObservatory Cath Sleeman

We're recruiting a Principal Data Scientist to work closely with our Data Analytics Team, guiding and carrying out projects that will benefit our missions. Salary: £47-57k plus excellent benefits. Deadline to apply: 8am 11 October bit.ly/3D0r2OG

📢The #dataanalytics practice at Nesta is hiring for a senior data engineering lead!📢🌟Great opportunity to lead a small team of data engineers using data analytics to advance Nesta’s missions around education, health and sustainability.🌟Apply here: nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-engi…

🙌🏻 Thank you Dealroom.co for featuring the latest Nesta report in your newsletter! 📖 Read the full report here: nesta.org.uk/project/mappin… 👀 And check out the newsletter for other VC news: newsletter.dealroom.co/pulse-check-on…

Agent-Based Modelling for Social Impact at Nesta - a discussion of the findings of our exploration week with Chris Williamson Juan Mateos Garcia George Richardson Federico Andreis Jack Vines link.medium.com/D7u3cGP5dub

I played around with spaCy 's new-ish spancat model as part of Nesta's upcoming work on skills extraction (more coming soon!) - in the meantime, here's a tutorial on how I trained the component in a lightweight fashion! medium.com/data-analytics…

🤔 We thought it was time for a bit of a reset after the past couple of years. Come and help shape our approach and inform what we focus on... 🗓️ lu.ma/sheffield-data… 🙂 *Everyone* is welcome. You don't need to be a 'data expert' or have been before. Hope to see you there!

Mapping Early Years Practice: In this new Nesta blog with Dr. Rachel Wilcock we cluster local authorities in England based on their demographics characteristics and compare their early years outcomes. nesta.org.uk/feature/mappin…

New year, new default data manipulation package? I’ve written about some small changes I’ve made to speed up my normal data workflow with polars data and Apache Parquet link.medium.com/1tajJbgk1wb

When you map the average price of an hour’s childcare in every English local authority, London stands out. But that’s not the whole picture. What about places where costs are lower, but so are local wages? nesta.org.uk/data-visualisa…

We are excited to launch the Skills Extractor Library developed by Nesta. This Python package will allow you to extract skill phrases from the text of job adverts. Read more and access from our blog bit.ly/3JBLdc3 and see how it can be used at bit.ly/3T8zZyJ

We're hiring Data Scientists! I'm biased, but these are great roles in a great team, using data science to tackle some of the UK's biggest challenges: nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-scie…

Day 3️⃣ Main Talks: Building a skills extraction library using NLP Tools - Jack Vines India Kerle Liz Gallagher #pydatalondon #pydatalondon2023

New Nesta research reveals that the already stretched early-years sector will need 27,500 staff to meet demand linked to government-funded childcare offer. Hannah Fearn The i paper inews.co.uk/news/sunaks-fr…

🛠️ Skills Extractor Library from Nesta: A new package to identify skill phrases in job advertisements & align them with standardized skills in established taxonomies. It uses spaCy for NER + Hugging Face sentence-transformers for mapping. github.com/nestauk/ojd_da…

Thanks so much for the shout out spaCy ❤️ We've just released a new version of the library (v1.0.2) and will be releasing new features in the coming months. This library also helps power our upcoming work on measuring green jobs. More to come v soon!

Come and join me, Sheffield Data for Good, Citizen Network Research, #Sheffield residents, community groups, data analysts, students, Sheffield organisations and others as we collectively explore what we do with the (messy!) neighbourhood mapping data so far. Sign up: lu.ma/sheffield-data