This article highlights key themes, challenges and opportunities around data governance and security from our recent cross-governmental discovery work.
Discover how DBT is building a flexible, open source data platform - learning from the experiences of organisations across government, industry, and the charity sector. This blog explores the practical choices and challenges behind our infrastructure and tooling decisions.
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT)’s Data Scientists have built Matchbox, an open-source platform that allows them to deduplicate and link datasets in a way that is measurable, iterative and collaborative.
Reflections on research by the Digital, Data and Technology team in May 2025 with 15 organisations. This is the first in a series of blog posts on the topic.
How using data analysis made a major migration to Windows 11 quicker and easier to manage.
How a DBT data team created an AI fact-checking tool during the Paris Hackathon.
Find out how and why DDaT has taken the important step of self-hosting LLMs within a secure, internal environment.
DBT’s service management team successfully transferred 2TB of data to help train an AI tool that helps reviewing digital records.
Read how a temporary promotion lead to Leonardo Mazzone helping his new team to overcome some demanding challenges.
Department of Business and Trade’s (DBT) Chief Data Officer Sian Thomas reflects on how a Data Challenge showcased the power of automation, big data analytics and the benefits of collaboration between Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) and core teams
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