Data science and AI in the public sector: An interview with ONS’s Penny Holborn

Penny Holborn, head of faculty for the Office for National Statistics Data Science Campus, talks to Jonathan Gillard about keeping up with new developments, the value of cross-team working, and always being driven to ask questions of data.

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Data

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Jonathan Gillard

Published

March 27, 2024

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About the author: Jonathan Gillard is a professor of statistics and data science at Cardiff University and a member of the editorial board of Real World Data Science.

Copyright and licence: © 2024 Royal Statistical Society

This interview is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International licence. Thumbnail background by Marcin Skalij on Unsplash.

How to cite: Gillard, Jonathan. 2024. “Data science and AI in the public sector: An interview with ONS’s Penny Holborn.” Real World Data Science, March 27, 2024. URL