He is currently the data editor on the Trends team at Google, and previously worked as Twitter’s first data editor, telling stories based on millions of tweets. He is director of the Data Journalism Awards 2015, and is teaching data journalism at Berkeley’s journalism school. Simon edited and created guardian.co.uk/data, one of the world’s most popular data journalism websites, which publishes raw datasets and encourages users to visualize and analyze them. Simon recently authored Facts are Sacred: the Power of Data.