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‘For me, data science is about bridging the gap between business requirements and the data that businesses have’

Jasmine Holdsworth ‘fell in love’ with data science while employed as a data analyst at Stack Overflow. Now working as a data scientist at Expedia Group, she explains how…

Large language models: Do we need to understand the maths, or simply recognise the limitations?

Large language models

Do we need to understand the inner workings of large language models before we use them? Or, is it enough to simply teach people to recognise that model outputs can’t always…

How is ChatGPT changing data science?

Large language models

We sit down with the Royal Statistical Society’s Data Science and AI Section to hear how large language models are becoming part of the data science toolkit, and to consider…

‘I always thought someone like me couldn’t work in data, let alone data science’

Data engineering

Machine learning

Sami Rahman, head of data engineering and data platform at Penguin Random House, parlayed a psychology degree into a data science career – inspired by a talk on machine…

The politics of performance measurement

Problem definition

Stakeholder communication

Relationship management

Funding decisions, particularly for projects in the public sector, should be informed by data on what works and what doesn’t. But performance assessment is rarely…

‘Data science challenges you to keep learning – there’ll always be new advances in the field’

Machine learning

Tamanna Haque, lead data scientist at Jaguar Land Rover, shares her route into data science: from pursuing a maths degree at Manchester to analysing vehicle data for a major…