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 **Our World in Data** is a British data visualization project based in the [[United Kingdom]]. **Our World in Data** is a British data visualization project based in the [[United Kingdom]].
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 +Our World in Data notes that it has four main sources of research it uses for publication: “specialized institutes” such as the [[Peace Research Institute Oslo]], research articles, international institutions like the [[World Bank]], and “official data from government sources.”((//FAQs.// Our World in Data. Retrieved March 15, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230315040852/https://ourworldindata.org/faqs#how-do-you-decide-what-data-sources-to-use))
  
 ===== History ===== ===== History =====
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 Roser created the first version of Our World in Data in 2013 and applied for a research grant from the [[united_kingom:england:London]]-based [[Nuffield Foundation]], which initially rejected the application but accepted a renewed application in 2014 and provided OWID with a grant of £75,883 (approximately $90,318). Roser created the first version of Our World in Data in 2013 and applied for a research grant from the [[united_kingom:england:London]]-based [[Nuffield Foundation]], which initially rejected the application but accepted a renewed application in 2014 and provided OWID with a grant of £75,883 (approximately $90,318).
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 +In 2018, OWID successfully applied to startup incubator [[Y Combinator]], becoming part of the YC Winter 2019 batch of startups.((Roser, M., Ritchie, H., Ortiz-Ospina, E., Mispy, J., Hasell, J., & Gavrilov, D. (2019, January 25). //Our World in Data is at Y Combinator.// Our World in Data. http://archive.today/2019.02.07-182753/https://ourworldindata.org/owid-at-ycombinator))
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 +==== COVID-19 ====
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 +The organization began the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] with six staff members, and grew to 20 by late 2021.((Wiblin, R., & Harris, K. (2021, June 21). //Max Roser on building the world’s first great source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data.// 80,000 Hours. https://web.archive.org/web/20230128131614/https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/max-roser-our-world-in-data/)) ((//Our Team.// Our World in Data. Retrieved March 17, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230317214612/https://ourworldindata.org/team))
  
 ===== Organization ===== ===== Organization =====
  
 OWID is a project of the [[Global Change Data Lab]] (GCDL) and is hosted at the [[University of Oxford]].((//How We’re Funded.// Our World in Data. Retrieved March 18, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230318074043/https://ourworldindata.org/funding)) OWID is a project of the [[Global Change Data Lab]] (GCDL) and is hosted at the [[University of Oxford]].((//How We’re Funded.// Our World in Data. Retrieved March 18, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230318074043/https://ourworldindata.org/funding))
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 +==== Personnel ====
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 +^  Our World in Data - Team((//Our Team.// Our World in Data. Retrieved March 17, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230317214612/https://ourworldindata.org/team))  ^^^
 +^ Name  ^ Position  ^ Notes  ^
 +| [[Max Roser]]  | Founder and Director  | [[Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development]], [[Global Change Data Lab]]  |
 +| [[Natasha Ahuja]]  | Executive Assistant to Dr. Max Roser  | Joined in 2022  |
 +| [[Pablo Arriagada]]  | Data Scientist  | Joined in 2022  |
 +| [[Daniel Bachler]]  | Principal Software Engineer  | Joined in 2021  |
 +| [[Matthieu Bergel]]  | Senior Software Engineer  | Joined in 2019  |
 +| [[Marwa Boukarim]]  | Designer  | [[Frog Milan]]  |
 +| [[Matthew Conlen]]  | Head of Product and Design  | [[New York Times]], [[CNN]], [[FiveThirtyEight]] |
 +| [[Jason Crawford]]  | Software Team Lead (Part-time Advisor)  | [[Fieldbook]], [[Amazon]], [[Flexport]]  |
 +| [[Saloni Dattani]]  | Researcher (Part-time)  | [[University of Hong Kong]], [[King’s College London]]  |
 +| [[Marcel Gerber]]  | Software Engineer (Part-time)  | Joined in 2020  |
 +| [[Charlie Giattino]]  | Researcher  | [[Centre for the Governance of AI]], [[Future of Humanity Institute]], [[AI Impacts]]  |
 +| [[Joe Hasell]]  | Product Manager  | [[University of Oxford]]  |
 +| [[Bastian Herre]]  | Researcher  | Joined in 2021  |
 +| [[Bobbie Macdonald]]  | Senior Data Scientist (Part-time)  | Joined in 2020  |
 +| [[Edouard Mathieu]]  | Head of Data and Research  | [[University of Oxford]]  |
 +| [[Sophia Mersmann]]  | Data Visualization Engineer  | [[Grapher]], [[rbb24]]  |
 +| [[Esteban Ortiz-Ospina]]  | Head of Strategy and Operations  | [[Global Change Data Lab]], [[University of Oxford]]  |
 +| [[Natalie Reynolds-Garcia]]  | Operations and Administration Officer  | [[Rees Centre]]  |
 +| [[Hannah Ritchie]]  | Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead  | Joined in 2017  |
 +| [[Lucas Rodés-Guirao]]  | Senior Data Scientist  | [[National Institute of Informatics]]  |
 +| [[Valerie Rogers Muigai]]  | Operations and Finance Manager  | [[Kijani Uganda]]  |
 +| [[Pablo Rosado]]  | Principal Data Scientist  | [[Max Planck Society]], [[Data Science for Social Good]], [[European Union Intellectual Property Office]] (EUIPO)  |
 +| [[Ike Saunders]]  | Full Stack Engineer  | Joined in 2022  |
 +| [[Mallika Snyder]]  | Researcher (Part-time)  | [[University of California Berkeley]]  |
 +| [[Fiona Spooner]]  | Senior Data Scientist  | [[University of Exeter]], [[Sustainable Development Goals]] (SDG), [[Imperial College London]]  |
 +| [[Christian Swinehart]]  | Senior Data Visualization Engineer  | [[Pentagram]], [[Bloomberg]], [[New York Times]], [[Columbia University]], [[Pratt Institute]]  |
 +| [[Mojmir Vinkler]]  | Data Engineer  | Joined in 2022  |
 +| [[Lars Yencken]]  | Head of Engineering  | [[Grace Health]], [[Lifesum]]  |
 +^  Former Team Members((//Former Team Members and Contributors.// Our World in Data. Retrieved March 18, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.03.18-183222/https://ourworldindata.org/former-team-members))  ^^^
 +| [[Shahid Ahmad]]  | Software Engineer  | [[Jasmine]]  |
 +| [[Aibek Aldabergenov]]  | Web Developer  | -  |
 +| [[Cameron Appel]]  | Data Analyst  | 2019-2022  |
 +| [[Hannah Behrens]]  | Contributor  | [[University of Oxford]]  |
 +| [[Diana Beltekian]]  | Research Assistant  | 2017  |
 +| [[Sonya Bhatt]]  | Administrative and Finance Officer  | 2018  |
 +| [[Anstey Brock]]  | Research Assistant  | 2018  |
 +| [[Daniel Gavrilov]]  | Software Engineer  | 2018-2022  |
 +| [[Zdenek Hynek]]  | Web Developer  | 2015  |
 +| [[Lindsay Lee]]  | Research Assistant  | 2015  |
 +| [[Nicolas Lippolis]]  | Contributor  | [[Centre for the Study of African Economies]]  |
 +| [[Jaiden Mispy]]  | Web Developer  | 2016-2019  |
 +| [[Ruby Mittal]]  | Research Assistant  | -  |
 +| [[Marco Molteni]]  | Research Assistant  | 2017  |
 +| [[Julia Murphy]]  | Research Assistant  | 2015  |
 +| [[Mohamed Nagdy]]  | Research Assistant  | 2015  |
 +| [[Brian Nolan]]  | Contributor  | [[University of Oxford]]  |
 +| [[Sophie Ochmann]]  | Research Assistant  | 2017-2018  |
 +| [[Stefan Thewissen]]  | Contributor  | [[University of Oxford]]  |
 +| [[Sandra Tzvetkova]]  | Researcher and Editor  | -  |
 +| [[Ernst-jan Van Woerden]]  | Head of Product Design  | 2020  | 
 +| [[Samantha Vanderslott]]  | Contributor  | [[Oxford Vaccine Group]], [[Oxford Martin School]]  | 
 +| [[Breck Yunits]]  | Software Engineer  | 2020  |
  
 ==== Funding ==== ==== Funding ====
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   * [[Vitalik Buterin]]   * [[Vitalik Buterin]]
   * [[World Health Organization]] (WHO)   * [[World Health Organization]] (WHO)
 +  * [[Y Combinator]]
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