Downing Street seeks data expert to set up ‘skunkworks’ in No 10
Advert for head of analytical unit is latest sign of Dominic Cummings’ Whitehall shakeup
Downing Street is seeking applications for a £135,000 a year data expert to set up a “skunkworks” in No 10, in the latest evidence of Dominic Cummings’ Whitehall shakeup.
Cummings’ preoccupation with big data is well-known, and he has recently urged ministers’ special advisers to swot up on superforecasting, a way of predicting the future using statistical analysis.
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