Robin Linacre
Data Scientist
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobin Linacre is a data scientist with 11 years' experience applying econometrics and scalable engineering to public-sector problems, currently at the UK Ministry of Justice. He is the lead developer of Splink, an open-source probabilistic record linkage library with over 15 million downloads that brings fast, SQL-backed matching to large administrative datasets. With a background in economics (MSc Distinction) and roles spanning economics, data science leadership and advisory work across UK government departments, he blends statistical rigor with production-focused software engineering. Robin’s contributions to core matching algorithms and custom comparison support in Splink reflect a focus on accuracy, performance and real-world usability for privacy-sensitive linked data.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MSc, Economics, Distinction, MSc, Economics, Distinction at Birkbeck College, University of LondonBA, Economics, econometrics and finance, First with distinction, BA, Economics, econometrics and finance, First with distinction at University of York
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Github Skills (19)
python10
data-science10
sql10
rmarkdown10
r9
postgresql9
algorithm9
apache-spark9
algorithms9
machine-learning9
knitr9
csv9
pandoc6
bookdown6
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
moj-analytical-services/splink
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Fast, accurate and scalable probabilistic data linkage with support for multiple SQL backends
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:96 releases, 476 reviews, 1670 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Robin made contributions to the probabilistic data linkage project, specifically implementing examples and enabling support for custom comparisons. The commits involve changes to settings, and code related to case expressions, demonstrating the user's involvement in adapting and refining the project's matching functionality. Furthermore, the user made changes to expectation step and gamma calculations demonstrating their focus on developing core functionality of the project.
data-matchingrecord-linkagelinkagescalableduckdb
RobinL/uk_address_matcher
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 74 PRs, 201 pushes in 10 months
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