Contact
What I do
I manage a team of data scientists and researchers at Our World in Data (OWID), a scientific online publication based out of the University of Oxford that focuses on large problems such as global health, poverty, climate change, human rights, war, existential risks, and innovation. We aim to make the data and research on these big problems accessible and understandable. Find out more about OWID and our mission.
Since 2020, I’ve also led our work on the COVID-19 pandemic – most notably our Data Explorer, our global data on vaccinations used by most media organizations and international institutions, and our open source dataset with 60+ metrics on the country-by-country evolution of the pandemic.
I previously worked as a data scientist at the University of Oxford in the departments of Population Health and Primary Care Health Sciences; and as a data science consultant in the private sector.
For an overview of my background, the work of our team at OWID, and the principles we follow to make research and data more understandable and accessible, you can listen to the following:
- My interview with Ivan Stegic on the TEN7 podcast (45 minutes, February 2021)
- My interview with Fin Moorhouse & Luca Righetti on Hear This Idea (3.5 hours, October 2022)
As part of the Giving What We Can Pledge I signed in 2018, I donate 10% of my income to high-impact, cost-effective charities. My donations mostly go toward GiveDirectly’s cash transfers to families living in extreme poverty and Helen Keller International’s vitamin A supplementation program.
Work
Since 2020 · Our World in Data · Head of Data & Research
2018–2021 · Five Books · Interviewer
2018–2020 · Neoxia · Lead Data Scientist
2019–2020 · OpenClassrooms · Data Science Mentor
2015–2018 · University of Oxford · Data Analyst/Scientist
2012–2015 · La Netscouade · Social Media Analyst
2011–2012 · Europe Ecology–The Greens · Social Media Manager
Education
2011–2013 · Sciences Po Paris · Master’s degree in market research
2008–2011 · Sciences Po Paris · Bachelor’s degree in the humanities and social sciences
Publications
Dec. 2022 · Charlie Giattino, Edouard Mathieu, Julia Broden and Max Roser (2022) - “Artificial Intelligence” [ourworldindata.org]
Jul. 2022 · Five key findings from the 2022 UN Population Prospects [ourworldindata.org]
Jun. 2022 · Monkeypox Data Explorer [ourworldindata.org]
Mar. 2022 · Commit to transparent COVID data until the WHO declares the pandemic is over. Nature 602, 549 (2022). [nature.com]
Jan. 2022 · How do key COVID-19 metrics compare to previous waves? [ourworldindata.org]
Nov. 2021 · How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not? [ourworldindata.org]
Sep. 2021 · Which countries are on track to reach global COVID-19 vaccination targets? [ourworldindata.org]
May 2021 · Mathieu, E., Ritchie, H., Ortiz-Ospina, E. et al. A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations. Nature Human Behaviour 5, 947–953 (2021). [nature.com]
Jan. 2021 · State-by-state data on COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States [ourworldindata.org]
Dec. 2020 · Statistics and Research: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations [ourworldindata.org]
Nov. 2020 · Why do COVID-19 deaths in Sweden’s official data always appear to decrease? [ourworldindata.org]
Oct. 2020 · Hasell, J., Mathieu, E., Beltekian, D. et al. A cross-country database of COVID-19 testing. Nature Scientific Data 7, 345 (2020). [nature.com]
Apr. 2020 · Statistics and Research: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Testing [ourworldindata.org]
Apr. 2020 · le Signal et le Bruit, a newsletter dedicated to questions relating to data and artificial intelligence [substack.com, in French]
Mar. 2020 · The best books on Historical Change and Economic Ideology, recommended by Thomas Piketty [fivebooks.com]
Jul. 2019 · The best books on Learning Python and Data Science, recommended by Vicki Boykis [fivebooks.com]
Jun. 2019 · Gibson LM, Nolan J, Littlejohns TJ, Mathieu E, Garratt S, Doherty N, et al. (2019) Factors associated with potentially serious incidental findings and with serious final diagnoses on multi-modal imaging in the UK Biobank Imaging Study: A prospective cohort study. PLoS ONE 14(6): e0218267. [plos.org]
Apr. 2019 · Lay-Flurrie, S., Mathieu, E., Bankhead, C. et al. Patient consultation rate and clinical and NHS outcomes: a cross-sectional analysis of English primary care data from 2.7 million patients in 238 practices. BMC Health Services Research 19, 219 (2019). [biomedcentral.com]
Mar. 2019 · Big data: are we witnessing the emergence of “full-stack” data expertise? [journaldunet.com, in French]
Oct. 2018 · The best books on Data Science, recommended by Roger D. Peng [fivebooks.com]
Sep. 2018 · The best books on Existential Risks, recommended by The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk [fivebooks.com]
Sep. 2018 · The best modern Japanese literature, recommended by Linda Flores [fivebooks.com]
Aug. 2018 · The best books on Computer Science for Data Scientists, with Hadley Wickham [fivebooks.com]
Apr. 2018 · The best books on Computer Science and Programming, with Ana Bell [fivebooks.com]