Lucas is a Senior Data Scientist at Our World in Data, mostly working on the curation of various datasets and the data infrastructure.
He joined in 2021, after working as a Deep Learning Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan) and as a Data Scientist for the private sector. He studied an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at UPC (Barcelona, Spain) and KTH (Stockholm, Sweden).
Lucas is a Senior Data Scientist at Our World in Data, mostly working on the curation of various datasets and the data infrastructure.
He joined in 2021, after working as a Deep Learning Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan) and as a Data Scientist for the private sector. He studied an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at UPC (Barcelona, Spain) and KTH (Stockholm, Sweden).
Explore global and country data on population growth, demography, and how this is changing.
People are living longer across the world, but large differences remain. Explore global data on life expectancy and how it has changed over time.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the world. Explore global data and research to understand its impact, spread, and global response.
How common are armed conflict and peace between and within countries? How is this changing over time? Explore research and data on war and peace.
Mental health has a significant impact on people’s lives and wellbeing. To support people with mental illnesses, we need better data to understand them.
How has democracy spread across countries? Are we moving towards a more democratic world? Explore global data and research on democracy.
Suicide rates can be reduced with greater understanding and support for people at risk.
Humans were emitting large amounts of gases that depleted the ozone layer. But in the 1980s the world came together to tackle the problem. Emissions have fallen by more than 99%.
The world can respond swiftly and effectively to pandemic risks with better understanding, resources, and effort.
Explore data on COVID-19 vaccinations across the world.
Explore data on COVID-19 deaths across the world.
Explore data on COVID-19 cases across the world.
Explore data on COVID-19 excess mortality across the world.
Explore data on the mortality risk of COVID-19 across the world.
Women tend to live longer than men in all countries — but the sex gap in life expectancy is not a constant.
Explore data on COVID-19 hospitalizations across the world.
Falling fertility rates, migration movements, and China’s population decline.
Explore the key highlights from the UN’s latest release of its world population estimates.
Explore data on COVID-19 testing across the world.
Our team builds and maintains a long-run dataset on population by country, region, and for the world, based on three key sources.
Johns Hopkins University will stop publishing data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths. Our team will replace our entire time series with WHO's data on 8 March 2023.
Browse our two detailed data explorers on armed conflicts and war, with almost 300 interactive visualizations across six data sources.
Our peer-reviewed article outlines seven ways to publish data better.
As of 23 June 2022, we will no longer add new data points to our COVID-19 testing dataset. We will continue updates of all other metrics in our COVID-19 dataset.
We list our datasets on COVID-19 and the frequency with which we will update them going forward.
The pandemic has resulted in over twenty million deaths. In this article, we review the key insights from global data on COVID-19.
Our small team made COVID-19 data clear, reliable, and accessible to a global audience. This is how it happened.
