Ben Reason
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Upcoming live online training courses
April 23, 2024
Data Science Made Easy
By the end of the live online course, you’ll understand: What data science is and how it relates to other similar trends and buzzwords The reasons behind the overwhelming popularity of ...
May 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2024
Essential Math for Data Science in 4 Weeks—with Interactivity
By the end of this live, hands-on 4-part series, you’ll understand: Week 1: Probability How probability works and what it means to measure randomness How multiple events can affect the probability ...
May 29, 2024
Concurrent Programming in Go - with Interactivity
Correctly reason about concurrent code in Go Gain familiarity with Go's concurrency primitives, along with multiple examples Be aware of common pitfalls and mistakes that can happen in Go and understand ...
May 31, 2024
Hands-On React
This course is full of tips, tricks, life hacks, and best practices to put you and your team on the fastest and easiest possible track to begin writing powerful, reliable, and ...
June 14, 2024
Smarter Statistics for Data Science
Apply best practices for approaching statistical modeling problems correctly—both in terms of our conceptual perspectives as well as how we express these in real code. One of the most fundamental tasks ...
Bio
Ben is a co-founder of live|work and over the past eight years has directed his passion for social impact projects into delivering successful change for the public sector. Ben graduated from Liverpool John Moores University in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in fine arts, following this in 2000 with a master's in responsibility and business practice from the University of Bath. He has a background in design and innovation in network enabled services with Razorfish and Oyster Partners, working with Orange, Vodafone, Nokia, Sony, Experian, and Oracle.
Ben has provided strategic guidance and project delivery management on a range of high-profile public sector projects for organizations such as the National Health Service Innovation Institute, The Design Council, the BBC, the Home Office, Vodafone, Experian, and the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He has written articles for the NHS's In View magazine and has been featured in the International Herald Tribune. In 2009 he was voted one of the top 20 most influential designers in IKON magazine. His academic connections include SAID Business School Oxford, Cranfield Business School, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Köln Institute of Design, and Royal College of Art.