Some sad news to report. Nick Berry, the British data scientist who wrote DataGenetics – one of the best and longest-running maths popularisation blogs – has died aged 55 after a long battle with cancer.
Nick was a Yorkshireman who studied Aeronautical Engineering at Southampton university. He later moved to Seattle, where he worked as a data scientist for firms including Microsoft and Facebook. He started DataGenetics in 2009 and it soon gathered a huge following for its accessible posts about interesting topics in maths, physics and computer science.
