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Simon Rogers

Google News Lab
Data Editor
UK
Simon Rogers is a data journalist, writer, speaker. Author of Facts are Sacred published by Faber & Faber and a new range of infographics for children books from Candlewick. Data editor at Google Newslab. Simon edited and created guardian.co.uk/data, an online data resource which publishes hundreds of raw datasets and encourages its users to visualise and analyse them – and probably the world’s most popular data journalism website. He has also been a news editor at The Guardian, working with the graphics team to visualise and interpret huge datasets. In May 2013, he worked for Twitter in San Francisco as the organisation’s first Data Editor working to tell stories from billions of tweets. He joined Google in February 2015.