www.ft.com/content/560f... Great to see this come out—I know incredible levels of hard work have gone into it. More broadly, it's... quite the change in narrative of what has happened to the UK economy over the last 2 decades. May suggest different policies too (targeting hours)

UK productivity grew twice as fast as thought after 2008 financial crisis

New official figures put Britain more in line with peer countries in terms of output per hour worked

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There’s a lot of doom & gloom around how AI is affecting higher education. To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder. But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching. For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before. One example: 🧵

Today, my Google colleagues and I published work led by @mihaicod.bsky.social on AI in Science, drawing on 15 million Gemini interactions, 2,600 specialised AI models & a 600-scientist survey. What did we find about how AI is changing science? Read on...

How can AI help statistics? And why, with everything going on, should you care? "Statistics and Stupidly Smart AI" was filmed @rigb.org & based on my year visiting schools to talk stats for @royalstatsoc.bsky.social You'll be amazed at what AI can do from a laptop! www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0CY...

Can AI fix Britain's broken statistics? | with Arthur Turrell

YouTube video by The Royal Institution

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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.

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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!

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...

Over the last 12 months, I've been visiting schools as a @royalstatsoc.bsky.social William Guy Lecturer talking about statistics & how AI could help improve them Tomorrow, 7pm, I'll be @rigb.org to do the same with demos, stats, & LOTS of AI Get a ticket & come along! www.rigb.org/whats-on/sta...

Statistics and stupidly smart AI

Statistician Arthur Turrell explores how we can separate bad data from good, how it impacts decisions, and w

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We're really looking forward to this event with @arthurturrell.bsky.social, our brilliant William Guy Lecturer and member of the RSS Education Advisory group

Royal Institution@rigb.org · 3mo ago

How can AI improve statistics and take the pulse of our nation in new ways? Statistician @arthurturrell.bsky.social will illuminate how AI can be used in a considerate manner, for better data.

How can AI improve statistics and take the pulse of our nation in new ways? Statistician @arthurturrell.bsky.social will illuminate how AI can be used in a considerate manner, for better data.

Statistics and stupidly smart AI

Statistician Arthur Turrell explores how we can separate bad data from good, how it impacts decisions, and w

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Come and work @downingstreet as a data scientist! We're hiring for a data scientist working on health and education. You'll be right at the heart of UK policy making and (IMO) working with the best tech stack in the UK public sector. Link: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

I'm currently on iPlayer! Catch me about 13 minutes into this episode of The Future with @fryrsquared.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... (All views my own etc!)

The Future with Hannah Fry - Series 1: 4. Nuclear Fusion

It’s the holy grail for limitless clean energy, but will nuclear fusion come soon enough to avoid the worst of the climate crisis?

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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 · 6mo 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

This looks like a spectacular public good #econsky (Full disclosure: @packlesshepherd.bsky.social is a co-author but my main skin in the game is maybe we'll finally finish our paper together now...) github.com/Davidvandijc...

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?

Evergreen 👇

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 9mo 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

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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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.

Ten extremely useful command line tools for 2026! 👇 aeturrell.com/blog/posts/t...

Arthur Turrell

Arthur Turrell is an economic data scientist.

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The burger sauce merger www.ft.com/content/e7e6... Unilever and Kraft Heinz held talks over food merger uniting ketchup and mayo

Unilever and Kraft Heinz held talks over food merger uniting ketchup and mayo

Exploration of deal worth tens of billions of dollars reflects struggle of both companies to combat subdued demand

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New blog post: **The era of local agents is here** In which I argue that, thanks to Qwen3.5, running agentic LLMs on a laptop is now not only possible but works pretty well aeturrell.com/blog/posts/e...

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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Found this book, can't wait to learn how to build a successful business

2026 Reading List - Book #4: 'The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet' by @arthurturrell.bsky.social He uses accessible analogies to unpack plasmas, magnetic confinement, inertial confinement, and the immense engineering challenges in reaching net-energy gain. #booksky 📚

Arthur Turrell — The Star Builders

Arthur Turrell is an economic data scientist.

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For the first time EVER, I've got a guest post on my blog! Katie Russell, my colleague @ no10, has written about reading (odo)meters using the latest AI vision models running locally on a laptop: aeturrell.com/blog/posts/v...

Arthur Turrell

Arthur Turrell is an economic data scientist.

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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...

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Today, Skimpy has hit 500 stars on GitHub! 🎉 Skimpy summarises info about datasets quickly and efficiently, either in Python or on the command line (for CSVs). Cool new features: - export summary table to text, html, or svg - cli tool now sniffs csv files Docs here: aeturrell.github.io/skimpy/

Skimpy

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Good news here for working with geospatial data: parquet.apache.org/blog/2026/02...

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...