Our World in Data
Our World in Data is a British data visualization project based in the United Kingdom.
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.”1)
History
Our World in Data began as compiled research notes written by Global Change Data Lab founder Max Roser in 2011. Roser originally aimed to write a book on international issues before deciding to create a website.2)
Roser created the first version of Our World in Data in 2013 and applied for a research grant from the 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).
In 2018, OWID successfully applied to startup incubator Y Combinator, becoming part of the YC Winter 2019 batch of startups.3)
COVID-19
Organization
Personnel
Our World in Data - Team7) |
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 Members8) |
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
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