Talk Data to Me is brought to you by host Georgina Sturge, author of the critically-acclaimed 'Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Data' and 'Sum of Us: A History of the UK in Data.' Having made a career out of pointing out where the statistics we take for granted in politics and policymaking are deeply flawed, in each episode of this podcast Georgina interviews guests from government insiders to mathematicians and unravels the story, the life and the mystery behind the data that feeds our modern world.
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Talk Data to Me is brought to you by host Georgina Sturge, author of the critically-acclaimed 'Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Data' and 'Sum of Us: A History of the UK in Data.' Having made a career out of pointing out where the statistics we take for granted in politics and policymaking are deeply flawed, in each episode of this podcast Georgina interviews guests from government insiders to mathematicians and unravels the story, the life and the mystery behind the data that feeds our modern world.
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January 21, 2026
Why election polls are not what you think they are, with Ben Walker from Britain Elects
<p>My guest this week is Ben Walker, Senior Data Journalist atthe New Statesman and co-founder of Britain Elects – a website that aggregates election results and polls of people’s voting intentions, and which dabbles, very successfully, in election forecasting. At the 2024 general election, Ben’s model was the one that came closest to predicting the end result, an incredible achievement considering that it proved more accurate than all the professional polling companies. </p><p>Ben is also a reporter and commentator on data and politics and has made many appearances on the radio, on the BBC news, and on podcasts. In 2023, he crossed over from the sidelines into local politics, being elected as a borough councillor in Cheshire, representing Chester city centre.</p><p>In this episode of Talk Data to Me, Ben explains the secrets behind his winning formula for predicting UK elections, and tells me all about the importance and frustrating uncertainty of polling people about their voting intentions.</p><p><br></p><p>Host: Georgina Sturge</p><p>URL: <a href="https://georginasturge.substack.com/">https://georginasturge.substack.com/</a></p><p>Made using Riverside and Audacity</p><p>Theme music: 'Binary Dreams' by Georgina Sturge, made using Suno.</p><p></p>
January 12, 2026
The power of data visualisation, with Andy Kirk
<p>My guest this week is Andy Kirk, an independent expert indata visualisation. Andy is a prolific producer of resources on the how-tos of data viz, including the incredibly useful and beautifully crafted book ‘Data visualisation: a handbook for data-driven design.’ Anyone who’s even dipped atoe into the world of data viz online will have come across Andy and his amazing website visualisingdata.com. Andy has lectured and taught on academic programmes, trained people all around the world, and consulted for a wholerange of organisations on how to get visual insight on their data. He also hosts the very successful podcast and videoseries Explore Explain. It’s no exaggeration to call him the King of Data Viz 👑. My personal favourite piece of information about Andy is that he once created an entire book which went into a deep analysis of the TV show Seinfeld through data visualisation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some links to things we talked about in the episode:</p><p><strong>Andy’s website:</strong> <a href="http://www.visualisingdata.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.visualisingdata.com</a></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Inspiring data viz examples:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.reuters.com/graphics/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/data-visualisation" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/data-visualisation</a></p><p><a href="https://www.dear-data.com/theproject" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.dear-data.com/theproject</a></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>(Mostly) free dataviz creation tools:</strong></p><p><a href="https://flourish.studio/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://flourish.studio/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.rawgraphs.io/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.rawgraphs.io/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.datawrapper.de/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.datawrapper.de/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Andy’s recommendation of one to watch:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.not-ship.com/author/amanda/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.not-ship.com/author/amanda/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>The original Seinfeld dataviz project:</strong></p><p><a href="https://visualisingdata.com/2020/09/new-project-the-seinfeld-chronicles/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://visualisingdata.com/2020/09/new-project-the-seinfeld-chronicles/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Host: Georgina Sturge</p><p>URL: <a href="https://georginasturge.substack.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://georginasturge.substack.com/</a></p><p>Made using Riverside and Audacity</p><p>Theme music: 'Binary Dreams' by Georgina Sturge, made using Suno.</p>
January 8, 2026
Digital ID, big tech and the Dutch dilemma
<p>It's just me this week, with a story about digital ID, and the implications of relying on big American tech to deliver it. But this week the focus isn't on the UK, or at least it won't be at first - this week we're in the Netherlands.</p><p><br></p><p>The full text of this episode also appeared as an article on the Substack page for <a href="https://georginasturge.substack.com/p/digital-id-big-tech-and-the-dutch" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Talk Data to Me,</a> published on 7 January 2025.</p><p><br></p><p>Host: Georgina Sturge</p><p>URL: <a href="https://georginasturge.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://georginasturge.substack.com/</a></p><p>Made using Riverside and Audacity</p><p>Theme music: 'Binary Dreams' by Georgina Sturge, made using Suno.</p><p><br></p>
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