Lars Yencken

Engineering leader and data scientist based in Oxford. Head of Engineering at Our World in Data.

Posts

• 8 Sept 2024Exploring the world's countries
• 16 Jul 2024Three ways to store hierarchical data in SQL
• 16 Mar 2024Life expectancy is a distribution
• 28 Feb 2024In praise of Nushell
• 19 Feb 2024The best code is pseudocode
• 12 Feb 2024Which countries have the best public schools?
• 7 Jan 2024The dream of abundant computing
• 1 Jan 2024The fresh start effect
• 6 Nov 2023Post-scarcity optimism in science fiction
• 10 Nov 2022Experimenting with LXC containers
• 5 Oct 2022Debugging like a scientist
• 3 Dec 2021Ten years of measurement