Data science at Nesta

A tutorial and evaluation of GitHub Actions for automating a data scraping pipeline in Python

In this tutorial, I will give you a brief introduction to Gephi, a network visualisation tool. This guide will also briefly explain why…

In this blog, we explore how to develop a WhatsApp chatbot powered by a large language model (LLM) that can help people easily access…

How we link green occupation data to our dataset of job adverts.

At Nesta, we’re measuring the greenness of every job, business and sector to help facilitate the transition of the UK workforce to net…

Mixed methods approaches for developing data-informed products that deliver efficiency, improve outcomes and develop mutually-beneficial…

A comparison of GPT-4 vs. k-nearest neighbours regression for filling in missing nutritional data

We have built a demonstrator tool that is linked to the Future Skills Sussex website that leverages the algorithm described in our Mapping…

Measure word collocations, use spaCy to extract linguistic features, and consider LLMs in speeding up your discourse analysis

Start piecing together the narrative by collecting news articles, analysing trends and using sentence embeddings to uncover themes

An overview of our approach to build, validate and label a five-level taxonomy of research topics in the UK, along with instructions to…

From mindfulness to diet tracking, health apps have the potential to help people lead healthier lives.