Let’s also welcome another new member of the School of Data team, Neil Ashton.

You may remember Neil as the editor of the blog’s Data Roundup for the first half of 2013. Neil has now joined the Open Knowledge Foundation as a writer and analyst and will be working on School of Data as well as other OKF projects. His mission is to improve project documentation and to bring the OKF’s work to a wider audience.

Neil is fresh out of graduate school, where he studied computational linguistics. Through his research, he has written on topics ranging from the grammar of Tocharian pronouns to probabilistic logic programming. Neil lives in Toronto with his wife and newborn son.

Neil can be reached at [email protected].