9 February 2024
Data policy, sausages, R, and meet-ups
Hello, and a belated happy new year to you!
This year marks a decade since Warning: Graphic Content emerged blinking into the world — and it’s just over a year since I put the newsletter on indefinite hiatus. Cutting to the chase: that hiatus will continue. Thanks for staying on this subscriber list nonetheless (though I wouldn’t blame you for leaving it!).
But…
If you were mainly signed up for news about key data developments, rather than the data visualisation*, then you should sign up for the Data Policy Digest I’m now writing for Connected by Data. It has all the latest on data and AI policy every fortnight or so — the latest edition was published earlier this week (just before the government finally published its response to the consultation on its AI White Paper). We’ve also got an online event next week you might be interested in.
I’ve also just published my latest year note — some reflections on and links to all the work I did in 2023. Including an explanation of why ‘sausages’ is one of the words in the title of this email.
Three other things to share for now:
- I’m thrilled that the Royal Statistical Society’s Significance magazine is serialising my long read on the R Number (originally planned to be the sample chapter of my book, very much still-forthcoming). A big thank you to Understanding Patient Data, including Natalie Banner who commissioned it when she was there. There’s a preview of future installments on the Wellcome Trust blog
- You’ll note a bit of Data Bites news in my year note — the good news is that it continues, and we have a great one lined up with Smart Data Research UK on 26 February with speakers including Ben Goldacre and Gina Neff
- And also from the year note — some of us have been noodling about what a regular meet-up for people interested in public sector reform might look like. There’s a survey here and we’d love to get your thoughts.
Anyway, do keep in touch — I’m most easily reachable via this email address and am now on Blue Sky, as well as Twitter and LinkedIn.
Thanks again, and have a great weekend
Gavin
*If you were here for the dataviz, there’s a big list of newsletters here. A particular recommendation for Quantum of Sollazzo.
