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Arthur Turrell

@arthurturrell.bsky.social

Economic data scientist and author. Currently @ No10, formerly ONS & Bank. Book on nuclear fusion, 'The Star Builders', out now with S&S/W&N. Views my own. Website: www.aeturrell.com

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Arthur Turrell@arthurturrell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our team has today released a huge analysis of the AI economy as seen through 15 million aggregated and de-identified human-AI interactions across the Gemini App, AI Mode, and the Gemini API. Most comprehensive look at how real people are using AI at scale yet! blog.google/innovation-a...

Understanding the AI economy

We’re releasing the first Activity, Task, Landscape, and Adoption Study (ATLAS) report, showing how people use Google’s AI tools.

blog.google

Arthur Turrell@arthurturrell.bsky.social · 3w ago

After over a decade (!) in the public sector, at the Bank of England, No10, the ONS, and even the Fed Board, I'm starting a new role at Google working on the economics of AI. For me, how AI will reshape the economy is the biggest and most exciting topic in the world right now! Watch this space!

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Arthur Turrell@arthurturrell.bsky.social · 3w ago

Press on the no10 Innovation Fellows scheme, which I have just left. To improve the UK, we need to bring a wide range of talent into gov. I was stunned by the commitment, energy, and talent of my colleagues on this scheme: every dept should have one! www.ft.com/content/4df5...

The ‘innovators and disrupters’ hired to bring AI to the UK public sector

Government fellowship scheme places tech experts on ‘high-impact tours of duty’ to improve services

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna@dariia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Reminder that this workshop by @arthurturrell.bsky.social has been rescheduled to next week (May 7) and you can still register! #EconSky #AcademicSky

Dariia Mykhailyshyna@dariia.bsky.social · 5mo ago

❗️Our next workshop will be on March 26th , 6 pm CET on Accelerate your research: reproducible and efficient analysis in Python by @arthurturrell.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky

Arthur Turrell@arthurturrell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Given building software is now cheap, asked someone what would make biggest difference to their public sector job: "Outlook not crashing all the time". Enterprise Microsoft IT people: do you outright block other front-ends (eg Thunderbird) or would it be possible to have both in secure envs?

Arthur Turrell@arthurturrell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

sites.google.com/view/dariia-... Hey everyone, how'd you like to learn about reproducibility and efficiency with Python code AND support Ukraine? Well, on Thursday evening at 18:00 - 20:00 CET you can! For just 20€ (more if you like) you can join an online class. More details at the link

Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine

Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)

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Alex@s3alfisc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am very excited that PyFixest 0.50.0 is on PyPi, including a new graph-based solver for demeaning that makes fixed effects estimation in PyFixest significantly faster for "sparse" fixed effects structures.

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Arthur Turrell@arthurturrell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New book chapter in The Economy As A Complex Evolving System IV. It's about how data science/AI can help policymakers understand increasingly complex economies. But the whole volume is an absolute treasure trove and it's 2026, so all chapters are gold open access! www.sfipress.org/books/eecs-iv

The Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV — SFI Press

Today’s global economy is undergoing profound structural transformations. These changes are complex, adaptive, and path-dependent—precisely the kind of dynamics that a complexity-science approach to e...

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Arthur Turrell@arthurturrell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excellent post on UK public sector's most successful open source tool: Splink. Which got me thinking... 1. open source is underrated as way for one gov dept to find tools that another gov dept has usefully developed. Web search > internal coordination! 2. 👇 mojdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/24/s...

Splink or Swim: The Benefits of Being Small Enough To Fail

A behind-the-scenes look at winning the Civil Service innovation award  Suppose the Civil Service embarked on an ambitious project to create software that would be used widely in government and beyond...

mojdigital.blog.gov.uk

Arthur Turrell@arthurturrell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There's a lot of news out there rn, probably so much that you're distracted from thinking about data analysis. As an antidote, why not try out Skimpy, a Python package for data analysis? It has 496 stars on GitHub: we just need a few more to hit 500. That could be you! ⭐️ github.com/aeturrell/sk...

GitHub - aeturrell/skimpy: skimpy is a light weight tool that provides summary statistics about variables in data frames within the console.

skimpy is a light weight tool that provides summary statistics about variables in data frames within the console. - aeturrell/skimpy

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Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 7mo ago

The cost of sequencing a human genome has fallen over 100,000 fold in nominal terms since 2001. In a new visualization, I've added some of the key advances in sequencing during that timeline:

Line chart showing the dramatic decline in the cost of sequencing a human genome from 2001 to 2022, plotted on a logarithmic dollar scale. The vertical axis shows cost per genome in U.S. dollars, ranging from over $100 million down to about $500, and the horizontal axis shows year. Costs start near $100 million in 2001 during the Human Genome Project, fall gradually to around $10 million by 2005, then drop sharply after 2007 with the introduction of next-generation sequencing technologies. By 2011 costs fall below $10,000, reach around $1,000 by 2017, and continue decreasing to a few hundred dollars by the early 2020s. Annotations mark major technological milestones such as Illumina short-read sequencing, Ion Torrent semiconductor sequencing, PacBio real-time sequencing, Oxford Nanopore’s MinION, and completion of an end-to-end human genome map.