ED LOWTHER

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

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BBC articles and interactives