EA - AMA: Ed Mathieu, Head of Data & Research at Our World in Data by EdMathieu

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AMA: Ed Mathieu, Head of Data & Research at Our World in Data, published by EdMathieu on June 17, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Hi, EAs! I'm Ed Mathieu, manager of a team of data scientists and researchers at Our World in Data (OWID), an online publication founded by Max Roser and based out of the University of Oxford.We aim to make the data and research on the world's largest problems accessible and understandable. You can learn more about our mission on our site.You’re welcome to ask me anything! I’ll start answering questions on Friday, 23 June.Feel free to ask anything you may want to know about our mission, work, articles, charts, or more meta-aspects like our team structure, the history of OWID, etc.Please post your questions as comments on this post. The earlier you share your questions, the higher the chances they'll reach the top!Please upvote questions you'd most like answered.I'll answer questions on Friday, 23 June. Questions posted after that are less likely to get answers.(This is an “AMA” — you can explore others here.)I joined OWID in 2020 and spent the first couple of years leading our work on the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, my role has expanded to coordinating all the research & data work on our site.I previously worked as a data scientist at the University of Oxford in the departments of Population Health and Primary Care Health Sciences; and as a data science consultant in the private sector.For a (3.5-hour!) overview of my background, and the work of our team at OWID, you can listen to my interview with Fin Moorhouse and Luca Righetti on Hear This Idea. I also gave a talk at EA Global: London 22.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org