Seb Bacon
Chief Technical Officer
Seb Bacon is a manager, analyst, and programmer with a lifelong interest in “civic tech”. He is responsible for all the the software-related outputs of the DataLab. Prior to the DataLab, he was CTO at OpenCorporates, creating the largest open database of corporate data in the world. Elsewhere, he has been responsible for the design and deployment of the international Freedom of Information software, Alaveteli; and was founder of Democracy Club, an organisation dedicated to transparency in the operation of UK elections.
Recent publications
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Describing the population experiencing COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough following second vaccination in England: a cohort study from OpenSAFELY
Journal article
Green A. et al, (2022), BMC Medicine, 20
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Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records
Journal article
Thompson EJ. et al, (2022), Nature Communications, 13
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Recording of ’COVID-19 vaccine declined‘: a cohort study on 57.9 million National Health Service patients’ records in situ using OpenSAFELY, England, 8 December 2020 to 25 May 2021
Journal article
Curtis HJ. et al, (2022), Eurosurveillance, 27
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A hypothesis-free data science approach to identifying novel patterns of clinical interest in clinicians' treatment preferences: clusters of high Pericyazine and Promazine use in England (Preprint)
Preprint
MacKenna B. et al, (2022)
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Software development skills for health data researchers.
Journal article
Morton C. et al, (2022), BMJ Health Care Inform, 29