Join us for the first ever Coffee and Coding/RAS Technical Seminar super event - Nature of RAP: Crime stats automation.

“Coffee and Coding” is an initiative to nurture, enable and encourage a vibrant, supportive and inclusive coding community. The idea is to provide a regular opportunity for people who are interested in coding to share skills and knowledge, provide advice and guidance to each other and generally network and get to know each other. "Coffee and Coding" is a friendly space for all to chat about coding within ONS. No expert knowledge or extensive skills required.

Microsoft Teams will be used for this session - you will receive the link when you register for the event. Since this event is in conjunction with the RAS Technical Seminars, if you are on the RAS mailing list you may already have an Outlook calendar invite in your calendar for this event.

This session will include:

- Nature of RAP: Crime stats table automation. In March the Centre for Crime and Justice kicked off the ‘Nature of Crime’ RAP project with the aim to automate the 206 annual tables published from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). We developed two reproducible analytical pipelines, in R and Python, in collaboration with the Best Practice and Impact team. The pipelines pick up the CSEW data, run the necessary manipulations and produce the final, fully formatted workbooks ready for publication. What previously took 13 analysts 3-weeks to produce, can now be created within an hour. We published the tables and the code that sits behind them in September and we are keen to share our learning of RAP and working with new coding tools.

If you would like to know more in advance of this event, please contact coffee.coding@ons.gov.uk

Check out our GitHub repositories:

- https://github.com/datasciencecampus/coffee-and-coding (NPT)

- https://github.com/datasciencecampus/coffee-and-coding-LDN (LDN)

This event is for ONS employees only.

Coffee and Coding/RAS Technical Seminar Super Event!