Lucas is a Senior Data Scientist at Our World in Data, mostly working on the curation of various datasets and the data infrastructure.
Prior to joining us in 2021, he served 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).
Passionate about open-source software, he has authored projects like whatstk and contributed to pandas.
Lucas is a Senior Data Scientist at Our World in Data, mostly working on the curation of various datasets and the data infrastructure.
Prior to joining us in 2021, he served 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).
Passionate about open-source software, he has authored projects like whatstk and contributed to pandas.
Falling fertility rates, migration movements, and China’s population decline.
Our peer-reviewed article outlines seven ways to publish data better.
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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.
Browse our two detailed data explorers on armed conflicts and war, with almost 300 interactive visualizations across six data sources.
People are living longer across the world, but large differences remain. Explore global data on life expectancy and how it has changed over time.
Women tend to live longer than men in all countries — but the sex gap in life expectancy is not a constant.
Explore global and country data on population growth, demography, and how this is changing.
Explore the key highlights from the UN’s latest release of its world population estimates.
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.
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.
Suicide rates can be reduced with greater understanding and support for people at risk.
We built 207 country profiles which allow you to explore the statistics on the coronavirus pandemic for every country in the world.
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.
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.
Our team builds and maintains a long-run dataset on population by country, region, and for the world, based on three key sources.
