Timandra Harkness
Timandra Harkness writes and presents BBC Radio 4 documentaries, including 'Divided Nation' and 'Five Knots', and series 'FutureProofing' and 'Steelmanning'. Regular Radio and TV appearances to discuss current affairs, especially issues around technology, include 'Newsnight', 'Any Questions', 'Politics Live' and 'Free Thinking'.
Her first book, 'Big Data: does size matter?' was published by Bloomsbury Sigma in 2016 (updated paperback edition 2017).
Timandra won the Independent newspaper’s column-writing competition with a short piece on goat-borrowing, and has since written for innumerable publications, including The Times, Daily Telegraph, BBC Science Focus and Unherd. A Graduate Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, Timandra writes regularly for their journal, Significance.