Simon Rogers
Simon Rogers is Google’s Data Editor, leading a team of data journalists, analysts and visualisers to tell stories with Google’s data. (He was also Twitter’s first ever Data Editor, incidentally, working to tell stories from billions of tweets.) He is an award-winning data journalist in his own right, having received the Royal Statistical Society’s award for statistical excellence in journalism and been named ‘Best UK Internet Journalist’ by the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.
Simon is also the author of Facts Are Sacred, based on the Guardian’s Datablog which he helped launch, as well as a series of infographics books for children (spanning the human body, space, technology and the animal kingdom) from Candlewick Press.
He teaches Data Journalism at Medill-Northwestern University in San Francisco, has also taught at UC Berkeley’s Journalism school, and is co-host of ‘The Data Journalism Podcast’ with Alberto Cairo.
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