Simon Rogers
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Bio
Simon Rogers is editor of the Guardianââ¬â¢s Datablog and Datastore, an online data resource which publishes hundreds of raw datasets and encourages its users to visualise and analyse them. He is also a news editor on the Guardian, working with the graphics team to visualise and interpret huge datasets. He was closely involved in the Guardianââ¬â¢s exercise to crowdsource 450,000 MP expenses records and the organisationââ¬â¢s coverage of the Afghanistan Wikileaks war logs. Previously he was the launch editor of the Guardianââ¬â¢s online news service and has edited the paperââ¬â¢s science section. He has edited two Guardian books: How Slow Can You Waterski and The Hutton Inquiry and its impact. In 2010, Simon received a special commendation from the Royal Statistical Society in its awards for journalistic excellence.