Barry Haworth works as a Statistician and Data Scientist in the Australian Public Service. He holds a Masters degree in Statistics. Outside of work he is a keen reader of science fiction and enjoys choral singing and taking part in amateur theatricals, having performed such roles as Prospero in The Tempest, Fester in The Addams Family Musical, Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, and Ebenezer Scrooge and Marley's Ghost in two different versions of A Christmas Carol.