Mat Moore - things I've done

Here are some things I've done that are on the internet, including open source code I've worked on.

Ministry of Justice - Find MoJ data

Find MoJ data is a service for finding official data. The service is a facade over Datahub - an open source data catalogue - and is designed to help technical and non-technical users. I helped the team build it, launch a private beta and scale out the service to ~3000 datasets and ~200 active users.

Government Digital Service

Projects

• GOV.UK Search API
• GOV.UK Content Data API
• GOV.UK Registers (retired)
• ObjectHash Java - a way of hashing structured objects with redactable fields
• The GDS Tech Learning Pathway - a knowledge base and career path for technologists at GDS

AI prototypes

• Using data science to build a taxonomy for GOV.UK - a series of experiments to see if we could speed up development of the GOV.UK subject taxonomy
• Modelling user behaviour to benchmark GOV.UK's search engine - a project I completed for the Government Data Science Accelerator Programme

Blog posts

• Some thoughts on when to use LLMs
• A quick way to run axe-core from python
• Tips to make code reviews less painful
• How to break up a rails monolith
• How to manage a huge database schema in liquibase
• How to review website accessibility without comprehensive testing
• Making sense of python's development tools in 2019
• Watching conference talks as a group
• 3 lessons for building better AI from the 2019 Turing Talk
• Upgrading our GOV.UK search engine: a postmortem and lessons learnt (cowritten with Suzanne Hamilton)

Side projects

• Online board games and party games - resources for playing tabletop games online
• Learn Go - an interactive explainer for the board game Go
• Speech splitter - a tool I'm using to make flashcards from language learning MP3s
• An unofficial repository of Civil Service jargon
• Standard Ebooks - Commentaries on the Gallic War - Julius Caesar