About

When Theresa May announced plans on April 18th for the UK to hold a general election it was met with much cynicism.

However as self-confessed psephologists, we instead were thrilled at the opportunity. There would be political polls aplenty, a discharge of demographic datasets, suspicious statistics being slung around without sensible scrutiny, and fundamentally flawed forecasts being flung into the fray of frenetic factionalism.

Looking for political and/or #data geeks to collaborate on a @FiveThirtyEight inspired project on the #UK #GeneralElection, DM if interested pic.twitter.com/1ZH1tVAZTu

— John Sandall (@John_Sandall) 18 April 2017

Starting with just this tweet we’ve spawned a team of data scientists, software engineers, and experienced political operatives who want to bring transparency to the data surrounding this next election.

We are not:

• Paid – All contributors do so voluntarily.
• Funded – We’re the kind of people who would happily spend our free time using our skills for good.
• Affiliated with any political party¹ – We believe that truly impartial and unbiased sources of information are rare enough.

We are²:

• Sam Buddington – @https://twitter.com/sambuddington
• Mark Medum Bundgaard – @mmedum
• Rich Eden
• Tom Grainger – @graingert – https://github.com/graingert
• Rae Hodge – @RaeHodge
• Cormac Hollingsworth – @CormacHolly
• Dan Howarth – https://www.linkedin.com/in/drhowarth
• Chris Howlin – @cristohowlo
• Justin Ibbett – @justinibbett – https://www.focaldata.co/
• Sophie Johnson – @thesophie – http://hellocopywriting.co.uk/
• Matt Long – @burythehammer – http://www.burythehammer.com
• Alistair Lynn – @arplynn – http://alynn.co.uk/
• John Henry Mostyn – @jhmostyn
• Glen Moutrie – @gmoutrie – http://glenmoutrie.co.uk/
• Dan Palmer – @danpalmer – https://danpalmer.me
• Tom Paskhalis – @tpaskhalis – http://tom.paskhal.is/
• Andy Poulton – https://github.com/andrewPoulton
• Emma Salisbury – @a3terna
• John Sandall – @john_sandall – http://www.artofinference.com/
• Marie Segger – @MarieSegger
• Julius Šėporaitis – @seporaitis – https://github.com/seporaitis
• Alex Shires – @dralexshires
• Shan Sun – @shanxsun – https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaoshan-sun-22991b32
• Cale Tilford
• Paul Thomas – https://twitter.com/MaxThomais
• Tom Turner
• Tom Viner – @tomviner – https://github.com/tomviner
• Andrew Weeks

If you would like to get involved, just send an email to [email protected] introducing yourself, or feel free to send any questions to @SixFiftyData on Twitter.

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