I was recently asked to give a talk at No. 10 Downing Street on the topic of data science with impact and, in this post, I’m going to share some of what I said in that talk. The context for being asked is that the folks in 10DS, the Downing Street data team, are perhaps the most obsessed with having impact of any data science team I’ve met–so even though they’re the real experts on this topic, they’re very sensibly reaching out to others to see if there is anything extra they can l...
