Very different – yet spookily very much the same: on the radically different types of data used in different jobs in the modern knowledge economy, but the very similar approaches we all deploy to solve data-driven problems.

Data Malarkey - the podcast about using data smarter

After our third set of six great guests, it’s a wrap for Season Three of Data Malarkey – the podcast about using data smarter. Your host, master data storyteller Sam Knowles, picks out common themes and chooses his highlights from a lively series of conversations – recorded remotely, via the medium of Riverside.fm, between April and September 2023.

Thanks as ever to Joe Hickey for production support.

Podcast artwork by Shatter Media.

Voice over by Samantha Boffin.

Les Guessing, Emmy Award-winning copywriter and Zombie Data Hunter.

Sabrina Shadie, diversity and inclusion expert, founder of the D’Rose Development Consultancy.

Professor Angela Gallop, the forensic scientist’s forensic scientist.

Andrew Cooper, political pollster, and President of Yonder Consulting.

Digital marketing maven, Shai Reichert, the co-founder of XDS – The Experience Design Studio.

Alexis Kingsbury, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of AirManual.

Data Malarkey is back with Season Four from 17 January 2024, and there’s another glittering array of guests from an increasingly diverse set of professions. We’ll be hearing from women and men at the top of their game from the worlds of scientific research, pharma, supply chain logistics in both the military and on civvy street, football finance, public sector procurement, and our first data visualiser. Their common approaches to using data smarter have lessons for us all.

To find out how you rank as a data storyteller, complete our data storytelling scorecard at https://data-storytelling.scoreapp.com. It takes just two minutes to answer 12 questions, and we’ll send you your own personalised scorecard which tells you what kind of data storyteller you are.