Ed Lowther, data scientist

Ed is a Senior Research Data Scientist at UCL's Centre for Advanced Research Computing, having joined the department's Collaborations team in July 2021. He specialises in model development and evaluation, data visualisation, and explainable AI, with a focus on projects involving sensitive data.

Previously he worked for the BBC's Visual and Data Journalism team where he merged object-oriented software design principles and data analysis in Python, building publication-ready maps and charts in R, and contributing to the development of interactive projects in Node.js.

He has studied software engineering at the Makers Academy and data science at the General Assembly. Ex BBC Politics and UK news desks, and digital pilots team. Get in touch: @edlowther

Personal projects

Random Ottolenghi recipe selector

Unsure what to cook? Let the hand of fate steer your spatula

Tunes in translation

How Mary Poppins and Baloo sounded in Japan, Spain or Finland - switch languages while listening to Disney classics

London marathon investigation

Finding the handful of course-cutters

Cycling calculator

How do you measure up against the Olympic champs?

Where to find more space

Maps showing the size and price of houses by neighbourhood in England and Wales

BBC articles and interactives

Visualising the toll of coronavirus

The scale of suffering from the pandemic shown in flowers as a tribute to the victims

US election 2020

How Joe Biden won the presidency

Trump's impact on US immigration

How did Donald Trump's fiery campaign pledges on immigration translate into policy?

Why the UK went into lockdown

Visual storytelling to explain how scientific modelling left policy-makers with few good options as coronavirus took hold

The world in lockdown, April 2020

The impact of early measures to curb coronavirus, from flight cancellations to some major reductions in atmospheric NO2

2019 general election

Analysis in maps and charts as Boris Johnson won the 80-seat majority that secured his vision of Brexit

General election poll tracker 2019

What polls could tell us ahead of the vote, via a Kalman filter, and an animation on uncertainty

Last Orderrrrs!

Speaker John Bercow's career in numbers, including analysis of his place in 100 years of Hansard reports

Farming investigation

The UK's deadliest industry, according to HSE data

Scotland's drug death crisis

The nation with the highest drug death rate in Europe, by far

2018 US mid-term elections

Maps, charts and analysis as the Democrats began their recovery from 2016 by re-taking the House

UK Punjabi alcoholism

BBC investigation leads to rise in demand for support services

EU referendum

The result in maps and charts

London mayoral election 2016

Results by neighbourhood as Sadiq Khan became London's new Labour mayor

Life and death in Syria

Five years after the war began, a detailed look at what remained of the country, with a 19-hour animation of the names of children known to have died in the conflict