Simon Rogers
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Rogers is a data storytelling leader and author with 11+ years turning vast, messy datasets into clear narratives that shape public debate, product strategy, and policy. He built and led Google’s Trends Data team, scaled Trends.google.com to tens of millions of monthly users, and helped launch foundational open-data efforts like Data Commons and Dataset Search. Previously the Guardian’s pioneering Datablog editor and Twitter’s first Data Editor, he has a rare blend of journalism, product and engineering experience that delivers award-winning visualizations and platform-level impact. He co-hosts a data journalism podcast with industry luminaries and teaches the next generation of storytellers, reflecting his commitment to craft and community. His forthcoming book, What We Ask Google, examines search queries as a window into human curiosity—an approach he applies to help organizations predict shifts rather than merely report them. Based in San Francisco, he also contributes front-end improvements to notable open Google Trends projects, marrying practical UI work with strategic data leadership.
11 years of coding experience
Postgrad, Dip Newspaper Journalism, Postgrad, Dip Newspaper Journalism at City St George’s, University of London
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
bootstrap9
bootstra9
user-interface8
graphical-user-interface8
ui-design8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleTrends/data
May 2015 - Oct 2022
An index of all open-source data
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 40 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on updating the `index.html` file, which suggests a focus on the user interface of the Google Trends Datastore. Their contributions involved modifying the title, adding and modifying links, updating the appearance of the website, and integrating external libraries like Bootstrap, and JavaScript libraries for the display. The commits indicate an effort to improve the website's layout, user experience, and integration of external resources.
data-sourcedatadatabaseindex
SimonRogers/datajournalism
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
berkeleydata-journalismjournalism
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