Brian Tarran

After years working as data journalist in his native Spain, Alberto Cairo moved into education and is now the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami, as well as director of visualisation at its Institute for Data Science and Computing. His blog “The Functional Art” (www.thefunctionalart.com) delivers vital dispatches from the cutting edge of data viz and his X account is followed by more than 67,000 data viz/journalism experts and fans.

Next week, the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is hosting a panel debate on “Evaluating artificial intelligence: How data science and statistics can make sense of AI models.” The event forms part of the AI Fringe programme of activities and is timed to precede the UK government’s AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park.

Transcript Brian Tarran Hello, I’m Brian Tarran, editor of realworlddatascience.net. And welcome to another Real World Data Science interview. Today I’m speaking with Helen Miller-Bakewell of the Office for Statistics Regulation. And we’re talking about the Office’s July 2023 report, Data Sharing and Linkage for the Public Good. In this report, the OSR reviews progress that has been made towards sharing and linking data for the public good.