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The 2 Terabyte Challenge: Information transfer for an AI tool

Posted by: Tyler Shepherd, Senior M365 Engineer, Posted on: 2 July 2025 - Categories: People
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DBT’s service management team successfully transferred 2TB of data to help train an AI tool that helps reviewing digital records.

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Growing as a data leader through a temporary promotion

Posted by: Leonardo Mazzone - Senior Data Scientist, Posted on: 24 February 2025 - Categories: People
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Read how a temporary promotion lead to Leonardo Mazzone helping his new team to overcome some demanding challenges.

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DBT Data Challenge drives innovation

Posted by: Sian Thomas, Chief Data Officer, Posted on: 30 January 2025 - Categories: Professions
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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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Surpassing 4 million interactions: how we made collecting data a doddle

Posted by: Isabel Glover, Senior Product Manager and Graham Bird, Product Lead, Posted on: 30 July 2024 - Categories: Products
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How we followed the GDS Service Standard to enable 4 million interactions with businesses.

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Ensuring the safe and effective use of AI in the Department for Business and Trade

Posted by: Sarah Livermore, Senior Data Scientist, Posted on: 13 March 2024 - Categories: Products
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How the Data team set up a framework to govern DBT's potential use of Artificial Intelligence.

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Finding innovative solutions through the DBT Data Challenge

Posted by: Tayyib Sadiqque, Data Engineer and Jennie Rich - Digital Engagement Manager, Posted on: 13 July 2023 - Categories: Professions
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How teams from across DBT collaborated to win the DBT Data Challenge.

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Data Workspace meets Number 10

Posted by: Michal Charemza, Tech Lead, Posted on: 6 September 2022 - Categories: Products
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How Data Workspace supplied the data to drive forward net zero policy.

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Adopting agile working across DIT to support the UK Trade Tariff

Posted by: Costa Christou, Delivery Manager, Posted on: 2 August 2022 - Categories: Professions

Developing agile services and products that support the UK Trade Tariff and can evolve with the UK's needs

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Boosting data confidence with bootcamps

Posted by: Agnes Coaker, Senior Data Analyst, Posted on: 20 July 2022 - Categories: Products
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How we developed a learning programme to help the Department for International Trade make better use of data

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Data Workspace Challenge: how different directorates worked together to make better use of data

Posted by: Freya Krol, Data Engineer, Posted on: 1 June 2022 - Categories: People
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Find out how DIT's data team ran a new challenge to drive data literacy across DIT

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