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As with much of this repository, the below borrows heavily from Data Ethics Club.
We’ve described how a typical meeting would run in the ‘Facilitating’ document, and so this document is more about how people can contribute to the repository, and how we operate more generally.
The reading list is a curated list of suggestions we have received, and indicates what we have covered in sessions. More detail about previously discussed books is in our Sessions Overview.
From 2025, the organisers will each pick a book to read and decide which one should be part of a future session. In general, we decide based on the following:
More information on the tools we use can be found in our ‘Tools’ page.
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folderSince we organise around a GitHub repository people can submit issues using our issue template. People can also submit pull requests, or simply send us an email and we can upload your suggestions on to the repository - we know not everyone is comfortable using GitHub!
Contributions can be lots of different things, and so we use the emoji key on our front page. This has been adapted from that used by Data Ethics Club. If you think you should be listed as a contributor but can’t see your GitHub handle listed, please get in touch.
We welcome any administrative and organisational help you can offer! Please get in touch via email. We’d especially like to hear from people who are new to the Civil Service and from groups usually under-represented in data science.
Brilliant! Please reach out to us via email and we can set this up with you.
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