New starter onboarding - Data Services

Use this new starter onboarding guidance if you are a new member of the Data Services team.

You should use the following guidance when:

• setting up your local machine
• starting a new project
• using Google BigQuery to analyse data
• using the GOV.UK Content Store database
• using the GOV.UK mirror
• using GOV.UK Knowledge Graph, otherwise known as GovGraph
• organising your work using Trello
• using AWS Sagemaker to manage your machine’s resources

The new starter guidance also has reference information on the following:

• the GDS wiki
• Cabinet Office Intranet (CabWeb)
• Single Operating Platform (SOP)
• the GDS Way
• GOV.UK Confluence
• the Aqua book for maintaining analytical quality assurance (AQA)
• learning and development resources
• example code

This page was last reviewed on 12 August 2024. It needs to be reviewed again on 12 February 2025 .

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