Joseph Elliston
Head Of Data Strategy
Cartmel Fell, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Elliston is Head of Data Strategy with 11 years’ experience leading analytical and data science teams across UK civil service departments, currently shaping energy statistics and data transformation at BEIS. He combines hands-on technical skills in Python, R, SQL, Git and VBA with practical experience running reproducible statistical publications and managing complex data acquisition and sharing. A pragmatic people manager versed in both Agile and waterfall delivery, he has a track record of improving ways of working with data and operationalising analytics into production. Outside formal roles he founded the “coffee and coding” network that has grown into an 11-department community for building data science capability across government, reflecting his aptitude for grassroots change and cross-department collaboration. Trained as a scientist with an MS from Cambridge and a PhD in Cosmology, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to public-sector data strategy and governance.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Natural Sciences, Master of Science - MS, Natural Sciences at University of CambridgeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cosmology, Pass, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cosmology, Pass at Queen Mary University of London
Github Skills (3)
statistics2
xlsxwriter1
excel1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
josephelliston/SplitExpression
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
jmelliston/ByParts
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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