Harriet Sands

Using Data Science for Public Good

Leeds / York / London

harrietrs 

marthapig@proton.me

harrietsands 

Experienced Data Scientist currently working in health, with a background in government, social sciences and retail.

Education

PGCert. Statistical Data Science

Birkbeck College, University of London, UK 2021 - 2022

BA Hons. Human, Social and Political Sciences

Cambridge University, UK 2012 - 2016

Job history

Senior Data Scientist (NHS Digital, now NHS England, UK)

Mar '22 - Present

Data Scientist (HM Treasury, UK)

Oct '20 - Feb '22

Data Scientist (Secondment to Number 10, now 10DS, UK)

April '20 - June '20

Junior Data Scientist (Data Science Campus @ ONS, UK)

Sep '19 - Sep '20

Data Science Fellow (DSSG @ Imperial College, UK)

Jun '19 - Aug '19

Junior Data Scientist (dunnhumby, UK)

Jul '18 - Jun '19

Programming languages

Python

R

Other tech - various levels, non-exhaustive:

pyspark

dash (plotly)

html

css

unix

command line

reveal.js

Soft skills

Engaging, passionate and thought-provoking presenter

Builds strong workplace relationships

Skilled writer

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Experience

Dashboarding

Machine Learning Classifiers

Web based UIs (Data Science Projects)

Quantitative analysis and data manipulation

Reproducible analytical pipelines

Communication of Data Science topics to non-technical audiences

Data & AI Ethics

Some past projects

Daily reporting of shipping activity (link)

Co-founder of the cross-government data ethics and society reading group (link)