Simon Rogers

2 months ago | simonrogers.net | Simon Rogers

Data journalism, Government data, Open data Filed Under  data, Government data, open data Listen to the latest episode >>Cheryl Phillips⁠ is Hearst Professional in Residence at Stanford University’s journalism program, and founder of ⁠Big Local News⁠, which empowers journalists with data – and has twice been on Pulitzer prize winning news teams.

2 months ago | rnz.co.nz | Lillian Hanly |Simon Rogers

FOR MONDAYLabour is dismissing a government plan to gather information on breaking up the supermarket duopoly as "paying lip service" to their promises. But it - along with Consumer NZ - is welcoming the potential structural intervention the government may decide to make. Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis issued a Request for Information on Sunday to help determine possible regulatory and legislative changes that would support a third entrant into the grocery sector.

Mar 13, 2025 | simonrogers.net | Simon Rogers

About Simon Rogers Data journalist, writer, speaker. Author of 'Facts are Sacred', from Faber & Faber and a range of infographics for children books from Candlewick. Edited and launched the Guardian Datablog. Now works for Google in California as Data Editor and is Director of the Sigma awards for data journalism.

Feb 28, 2025 | link.aps.org | Yihao Chen |Johns Hopkins |Simon Rogers

An intrinsic feature of disordered and out-of-equilibrium materials, such as glasses, is the dependence of their properties on their history. An important example is rheological memory, in which disordered solids obtain properties based on their deformation history. Here, we employ x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy with in situ rheometry to characterize memory formation in a nanocolloidal soft glass due to cyclic shear.

Feb 19, 2025 | rnz.co.nz | Simon Rogers

Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Jennie Moreton & Simon Pound. The trio discuss the OCR announcement, and why zoning laws are preventing more competition in the supermarket sector. Simon Pound is a start-up brand specialist and venture capital investor at Previously Unavailable and Brand Fund, and host of the Business is Boring podcast. Jennie Moreton is a Director and Investment Adviser at Craigs Investment Partners.