Timandra Harkness
journalist, writer and broadcaster; presenter, Radio 4's FutureProofing and How to Disagree; author, Big Data: does size matter?

Timandra Harkness is a writer, broadcaster and presenter.

Her book Big Data: does size matter? published by Bloomsbury Sigma in 2016, came out in an updated paperback edition in June 2017. Watch her TedX talk, What Is Knowledge In The Age Of Big Data? here. She is currently writing her second non-fiction book for Harper Collins.

Timandra is a regular on BBC Radio, writing and presenting BBC Radio 4’s FutureProofing and other series including How To Disagree, Steelmanning and Political School. BBC documentaries include Data, Data Everywhere, Divided Nation, What Has Sat-Nav Done To Our Brains, and Five Knots. She was also resident reporter on all eight seasons of social psychology series The Human Zoo.

Since winning the Independent newspaper’s column-writing competition, Timandra has written for publications including the Telegraph, Guardian, The Sunday Times, Men’s Health and Significance (the journal of the Royal Statistical Society).

Timandra formed the first comedy science double-act in the UK with neuroscientist Dr Helen Pilcher. Since then she’s written and performed scientific and mathematical comedy from Adelaide (Australia) to Pittsburgh PA. In August 2019, Timandra took a new solo show, Take A Risk, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Timandra is a graduate fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and a founder member of their Data Ethics and Governance Section.

Photo by Paul Clarke.

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