Facts are Sacred

SIMON ROGERS is editor of guardian.co.uk/data, an online 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 bring figures to life on the page. He was closely involved with the "Guardian"'s groundbreaking decision to crowdsource 450,000 MP expenses records, as well as the organisation's coverage of the Afghanistan and Iraq 'Wikileaks' war logs. In 2010, Simon received a special commendation from the Royal Statistical Society in its awards for journalistic excellence, and in 2011 he was named Best UK Internet Journalist by the Oxford Internet Institute and won the inaugural XCity award from City University. Also in 2011 the Datablog won the Newspaper Awards prize for Best Use of New Media, the Knight Batten award for innovation in journalism and the Online Media award for innovation in journalism.