The Data Malarkey Podcast

The Data Malarkey podcast – and it’s audio-visual twin, the Data Malarkey Show on YouTube – a must-listen, must-watch resource of brilliant data storytelling. If only there were more people in the world with the pragmatic approach taken by my guests, well, there’d be rather less data malarkey about.

Turning data into desirability: Automotive insights with Nick Ratcliffe
Jun 10, 2025 – 36:24
Season 7 Greatest Hits: AI, Kindness & the Power of Storytelling
Apr 29, 2025 – 49:19
AI as an Intern, Not a Genius: Julie Holmes on Automation, Ethics & Human Impact
Apr 15, 2025 – 49:00
Truth Before Meaning: Scott Taylor on Data Storytelling & Business Impact
Apr 1, 2025 – 51:54
The Science of Kindness & Finding Joy in Data | Prof. Robin Banerjee on Psychology & Empathy
Mar 19, 2025 – 51:57
Trust, AI, and the Future of Human Connection with Cecilia Dones
Mar 5, 2025 – 51:25
From CERN to Ad Regulation: How AI & Data Science Are Changing Advertising | Adam Davidson
Feb 19, 2025 – 48:03
How can we build an AI future which respects ethics and data privacy? With Professor Sylvie Delacroix, Centre for Data Futures, King’s College London
Feb 5, 2025 – 53:13
The Smartest Data Moments from Season 6
Dec 18, 2024 – 50:53
Unlocking Creativity: Natalia Talkowska on Neuroscience, Storytelling & Innovation
Dec 4, 2024 – 48:27
How can we improve product and brand design with data? With Bill Wallsgrove, Head of Ideas at Brandad
Nov 20, 2024 – 43:17
How can we protect our privacy in the era of Big Tech? With Alice Wallbank, expert data privacy lawyer, Shoosmiths
Nov 5, 2024 – 41:52
Sir John Curtice on Election Insights, Exit Polls, and Data Storytelling
Oct 22, 2024 – 41:25
How can we unlock human behaviour with neuroscience and behavioural science? With Cristina de Balanzo, PhD, Founder of Walnut Unlimited
Oct 8, 2024 – 48:06
How can we communicate numbers clearly so that people can better understand the choices they face in life? With Mike Ellicock, Founder & CEO of Plain Numbers
Sep 25, 2024 – 47:09
How might we bring about gender equity in academic research? With Ylann Schemm, VP for Corporate Responsibility at Elsevier, and Executive Director of the Elsevier Foundation
Sep 10, 2024 – 49:29
On risk, uncertainty, and impact: how using data smarter is the fast track to success
Jul 30, 2024 – 54:31
How can we make the world better and fairer for all? With Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen from the University of Cambridge and the Autism Research Centre
Jul 16, 2024 – 53:48
Why should you put people, love, and relationships at the heart of business? With John Hibbs of CoEfficient
Jul 2, 2024 – 39:03
How can you tell if you should invest in a media company? With Ian Whittaker of Liberty Sky Advisors
Jun 18, 2024 – 48:34
Why does marketing need to become more like engineering? With Sorin Patilinet from Mars, aka The Marketing Engineer.
Jun 4, 2024 – 49:10
How can experts provide the public with risk information that works? With Olivia Jensen, Director of the Institute for Public Understanding of Risk
May 21, 2024 – 50:07
How can we best communicate risk in our uncertain, post-truth world? With Sir David Spiegelhalter, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge
May 7, 2024 – 53:42
The data planets align. The more guests we welcome to Data Malarkey – and the more different their jobs and categories – the more we’re able to join the dots between how those who use data smarter do so. A look back on Season Four of Data Malarkey
Apr 9, 2024 – 53:14
What happens when you mash-up the history of bands, films, and politics with the iconography of the London Underground? With Mike Bell of Mike Bell Maps
Mar 27, 2024 – 42:48
How is it possible to understand everything that the world’s Governments want to buy? With Ian Makgill
Mar 13, 2024 – 37:44
How can Kevin de Bruyne be worth 100 Leah Williamsons? With Kieran Maguire, Professor of Football Finance, University of Liverpool
Feb 28, 2024 – 48:42
What can business learn from military logistics? With John McFall, ex-RAF and Amazon Web Services
Feb 14, 2024 – 48:50
How can a beginner’s mind and a collaborative approach make you win at the team sport of “insight”? With Mark Montgomery, Novartis’ Head of Integrated Insights
Jan 31, 2024 – 35:41
How can we ensure public, political, and media debate is based on evidence? With Tracey Brown, OBE, Director of Sense About Science
Jan 17, 2024 – 40:46
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.
Dec 20, 2023 – 53:47
How can you use data to make a business runner better, faster, with less friction? With Alexis Kingsbury, AirManual
Dec 6, 2023 – 50:30
How can you use data to provide a first-class customer experience? With Shai Reichert, Experience Design Studio (XDS)
Nov 22, 2023 – 34:24
How Brexit broke the structure of British politics. With Andrew Cooper
Nov 8, 2023 – 47:58
“Better than CSI”. How can you use contradictory and incomplete data to solve cold murder cases? With Professor Angela Gallop, CBE
Oct 24, 2023 – 46:25
How can you leverage data to be a diversity, equity, and inclusion change maker? With Sabrina Shadie
Oct 10, 2023 – 40:06
How can you blend AI and data science with creativity and win an Emmy? With Les Guessing
Sep 26, 2023 – 50:26
On the Curse of Knowledge, the opportunities and risks of AI, and why data scientists need to speak the same language as business. A look back on Season Two of Data Malarkey – the podcast about using data smarter
Sep 12, 2023 – 57:49
How can you apply AI and data science to inform business decision-making? With Jean-Baptiste Bouzige, Ekimetrics
Aug 29, 2023 – 44:21
Is it possible to clean up the digital advertising market, providing the same level of information for both buyers and sellers? With Stijn Gimbrère, Media Futures Market
Aug 15, 2023 – 35:26
What does it take to be a data leader in business today? With Elizabeth Press, D3M Labs
Aug 1, 2023 – 37:13
How do you know what matters and what you can ignore when it comes to online reputation? With Sam Michelson, Founder & CEO, Five Blocks
Jul 18, 2023 – 31:13
How can smarter use of data mean that the doctor comes to you rather than you having to go to the doctor? With Tim Jobson, consultant gastroenterologist and Medical Director at Predictive Health Intelligence
Jul 4, 2023 – 47:22
How can we avoid the Curse of Knowledge? With Steven Pinker, Harvard professor of psychology
Jun 20, 2023 – 49:10
On digital balance, neurodiversity, and cat food. A look back on Season One of Data Malarkey – the podcast about using data smarter
Jun 7, 2023 – 47:13
Could you live without your smartphone? With Anastasia Dedyukhina, Chief Inspiration Officer of Consciously Digital
May 23, 2023 – 45:23
What’s the connection between Harvey Keitel’s Winston Wolf, 200g pouches of cat food, and neurodiversity? The answer is marketer, coach, and podcaster Mark Evans
May 9, 2023 – 43:08
How can brands find suitable environments where they can advertise successfully? With DoubleVerify’s Laetitia Zinetti
Apr 25, 2023 – 38:09
How can we clean up space junk and make space sustainable? With GNOSIS chair Katherine Courtney
Apr 11, 2023 – 38:11
Why do evidence, insight, and academic impact matter? With Brighton University’s Professor Rusi Jaspal
Mar 29, 2023 – 42:24