#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data
Edouard Mathieu is the Head of Data at Our World in Data.
Hear This Idea · Fin Moorhouse and Luca Righetti
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Show Notes
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Edouard Mathieu is the Head of Data at Our World in Data (OWID), a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.
We discuss:
- What Ed learned from working with governments and the WHO
- A simple change the WHO could make to radically improve how countries share data for the next pandemic
- The idea of 'experimental longtermism'
- How Ed is thinking about collecting data on transformative artificial intelligence and other potential existential risks
- Figuring out the impact of making everyone slightly better-informed
- Lessons for starting a career in impact-oriented data science
- And finally... Ed's favourite OWID chart
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