I'm a data scientist/analyst/researcher with a passion for data storytelling and making analytical insights accessible to all, particularly for the public good. I currently work at theBlavatnik School of Government, Unviersity of Oxford.

I have subject specialism in public governance, organisational effectiveness, employee engagement, and software development for reproducible analysis. I've previously been a freelancer, and for many years worked in a number of analytical roles at theCabinet Office (@co-analysis), as well as a stint at theOECD's Observatory of Public Sector Innovation.

I work largely in R, alongside HTML/CSS and JavaScript, but I've also worked with Python and SQL as well as various other programming languages and analytical software. I have two general purpose R packages,{tidyods} for working with ODS files and{shrthnd} for working with numeric data that also includes non-numeric symbols and shorthand.

Read more about my skills, experience and work on myportfolio website. I’m onMastodon and I'm stillTwitter. I also blog from time to time asThe Lapsed Geographer.

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1. narrowbotRnarrowbotRPublic

   A bot that publishes locations on the England and Wales canal network to Mastodon and Bluesky, and previously Twitter

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2. tidyodstidyodsPublic

   Read cells from ODS files in R

   R 4 1

3. lapsedgeographerlapsedgeographerPublic

   A blog about things

   JavaScript

4. shrthndshrthndPublic

   An R package for working with data that uses shorthand and symbols

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