Sam Lindsay
Head Of ADR Data Linking
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Lindsay is Head of ADR Data Linking at the UK Ministry of Justice, applying nine years of data science experience and a PhD in Astrophysics to lead large-scale probabilistic linkage for the Data First and cross-government BOLD programmes. He brings a rare blend of academic rigour—from developing ML methods for Euclid photometric redshifts at Oxford—to practical production analytics, championing and contributing to the open-source Splink toolkit for scalable probabilistic linkage. Sam specialises in turning messy administrative records into auditable, research-ready linked data products that enable new insights across criminal, civil and family justice. Equally comfortable coding model internals as presenting visualisations to stakeholders, he pairs technical depth with a track record of operationalising complex methods at scale.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics at University of HertfordshireHaberdashers' Aske's Boys' SchoolMSci, Theoretical Physics, Upper Second Class (Honours), MSci, Theoretical Physics, Upper Second Class (Honours) at Imperial College London
Github Skills (4)
parameter-estimation10
data-science10
python10
machine-learning9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
moj-analytical-services/splink
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Fast, accurate and scalable probabilistic data linkage with support for multiple SQL backends
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:3 releases, 44 reviews, 88 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the development of probabilistic data linkage functionalities within the `splink` repository. Their work involved implementing and refining core features related to settings and parameters. Specifically, the user introduced and tested a new function to incorporate and manage saved m and u probabilities, enhancing the model's parameter management capabilities. Furthermore, they expanded the project by adding new adjustment history charts.
data-matchingrecord-linkagelinkagescalableduckdb
samnlindsay/RugbyResults
Oct 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 88 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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