Philip joined the Campus in December 2019, from the methodology division of the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Prior to the Civil Service he was a software engineer, working on data-driven web services. While at the ONS Philip has worked on a range of projects including web scraped price data, supervised machine learning approaches to data linkage, and data extraction using optical character recognition.
Philip has a BA in mathematics and an MSc in advanced computing, with a focus on machine learning and data mining.
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