Tuesday 26 May 2026
12:30
Simon Rogers
What We Ask Google
In What We Ask Google, Simon explores insights from the world’s biggest dataset: an epic snapshot, two decades long and counting, of our collective brain. Combining rigorous data analysis with storytelling, What We Ask Google candidly and accessibly reveals what humanity really cares about…
Simon is Google’s Data Editor, leading a team of data journalists, analysts, and visualisers to tell stories with Google’s data. Previously, he was Twitter’s first ever Data Editor, and he is also the author of Facts Are Sacred (2013), based on the Guardian’s Datablog which he helped launch. A lecturer in Data Journalism at Medill-Northwestern University in San Francisco, he has 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.
‘This view from the other side of the search box is both charming and insightful’
Google’s Data Editor
Simon is Google’s Data Editor, leading a team of data journalists, analysts, and visualisers to tell stories with Google’s data. Previously, he was Twitter’s first ever Data Editor, and he is also the author of Facts Are Sacred (2013), based on the Guardian’s Datablog which he helped launch. A lecturer in Data Journalism at Medill-Northwestern University in San Francisco, he has 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.