Andy Nicholls
Senior Director, Head Of Data Science
Chippenham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Nicholls is a Senior Director and Head of Data Science with over a decade of experience building statistical and data science capabilities inside pharma, currently leading GSK’s Data Science organisation. He combines deep statistical training (MMath, MSc in Statistics with Applications in Medicine) with practical leadership—creating tooling, HPC-enabled R environments, and code governance to accelerate decision-making for physician-scientists. A long-time advocate for R and open source, Andy has led validation and adoption efforts (e.g., ValidR practices) and driven upskilling programmes that shift biostatistics teams toward data science. Known for translating complex clinical and translational problems into reproducible analytics and apps, he brings both consultancy breadth from Mango Solutions and hands-on study statistician experience in neuroscience and late-phase trials.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Statistics with Applications in Medicine, MSc Statistics with Applications in Medicine at University of SouthamptonMMath Mathematics, MMath Mathematics at University of Bath
English
Github Skills (29)
rstudio8
r-package8
validation7
shiny7
latex7
risk-assessment6
sampling6
reproducible-research6
r6
pandoc5
markdown5
mixed-models3
linear-models3
meta-analysis3
variable-selection3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pharmaR/pharmaR.github.io
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
pharmaR website
Contributions:22 reviews, 183 commits, 124 PRs in 4 years 3 months
pharmaR/rpharma2019
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Validation workshop materials at R in Pharma
Contributions:74 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
pharmaworkshop-materialsvalidationworkshopnumba
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