Head of Data Science at Frontier Economics. Ex HMPPS, CMA & Deloitte. All things numbers, sport and food. Views = my own. Retweets not endorsement.
Kent, UK
Joined March 2018
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David Dorrell retweeted
I wondered why my phone started beeping, had no idea why.
And to return the unexpected compliment "At my club, there's a guy called Ivan Toney (a centre forward) and he talks a lot about scoring goals, creating chances for others, proving people wrong, and smiling at the doubters
Summer is finally here 🌞! My #datascience team @FrontierEcon has mapped urban heat islands against deprivation with some important results. #geospatial #climate
frontier-economics.com/uk/en…
I’ve been saying for years that crows are the second biggest threat to humanity after climate change…
And we’re also the highest ranked team on net transfers in England too. The stuff dreams are made of.
David Dorrell retweeted
Imagine at this time someone confidently predicting that 16 years later the next 4 home games would be
1⃣ Manchester City
2⃣ Liverpool
3⃣ Chelsea
4⃣ Manchester United
with a visit to Arsenal squeezed in too
(12 home points for the taking too😇)
David Dorrell retweeted
Frontier’s analysis for The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) features on today’s front page of @thetimes providing a comprehensive overview of the cost of adults with obesity in the UK. Read more on the post below.
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Britain’s weight problem is costing almost £100 billion a year and will scupper Rishi Sunak’s plans to get the sick back to work, analysis suggests ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/obesi…
It was a great talk on using #ArtificialInteligence for #NLP. The power of large language models for classification is very exciting!
We were delighted to welcome Professor @kenbenoit of the @LSEDataScience to Frontier yesterday to give a fascinating talk on his most recent research. Find out more: okt.to/RyTvgH
I'm off to pastures new but this is great job to lead a fantastic #DataScience team in an organisation of growing global importance. DM me if you want to chat.
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David Dorrell retweeted
Fantastic lineup including among others @TomValletti, @ameliafletecon, @Caffar3Cristina, @DavidDorrell1, @DianeCoyle1859, @stefanhunt and @ershov_daniel.
Programme and registration at the link below:
sites.google.com/view/anikan…
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David Dorrell retweeted
We’ve launched an initial review of artificial intelligence models: gov.uk/government/news/cma-l…
ALT Initial review of artificial intelligence models.
David Dorrell retweeted
📉 Our #Data and #TechnoIogy Insight team is expanding and recruiting for:
1️⃣ Assistant Director
2️⃣ Senior Data & Technology Insight Advisers
3️⃣ Data & Technology Advisers
2️⃣ Interns
Read our blog post to find out more: competitionandmarkets.blog.g…
I really hope the advert jingle for this is the to the tune of Snooker Loopy by @chas_dave!
A really exciting summer internship opportunity here at @CMAgovUK!
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David Dorrell retweeted
The @CMAgovUK economic research strategy is out! It explains:
- Why it is important for the @CMAgovUK to do research
- How we plan to do transparent, policy-relevant work
- Topics of research interest, from productivity to merger evaluations
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gov.uk/government/publicatio…
David Dorrell retweeted
every american president, but they're all cool and they all sport a mullet
46. Joe Biden
Without wanting to get repetitive, I 💯% agree with everything Arthur has to say. My only addition would be that you have to empower your data scientists come up with creative solutions to the important issues like data security and DON’T impose arbitrary rules.
I was thinking about this more and have written down some first thoughts on a solution to the structural problem of data scientists not having the right tools in play: aeturrell.github.io/markov-w…