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Nigel Holmes illustrations animated by Rowland Holmes Nigel’s illustrations for What We Ask Google are so alive and enticing, we wondered what they would look like as animations.

I’m heading back to the UK at the end of the month for my new book, What We Ask Google: A Surprisingly Hopeful Picture of Humankind.

It’s Mother’s Day this weekend in the US and I wrote a piece for Literary Hub exploring what turns out to be one of the most profoundly isolating experiences we go through as humans: grief.

Bay Area friends!

Birdwatching is getting really popular: 96 million people in the US are birders and that produces a lot of Search data.

MaryJo Webster⁠ is data editor at the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Get a sneak peak inside the book, published May 2026 Introduction Top questions The rhythm of Search …is all you need Pets Food Human data When I first started working on What We Ask Google, I knew it shouldn’t feel just like a book of lists.

As a new year begins, we reflect on the state of data journalism.

⁠How hawker signboards tell the story of Singapore⁠ NEW POD EPISODE: The Straits Times is Singapore’s most widely read print newspaper, and its online presence is full of innovative data visualization projects.

This was a fun podcast episode to record – although my power outage resulted in the action shot above!