In our final episode of On the rADAr with Julia Gray, Julia is joined by BBC Radio 4's Timandra Harkness, whose career has taken her from presenting documentaries, to performing comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and to publishing a book on Big Data. In today's episode, recorded live at the Richmond Lit Fest, Julia and Timandra discuss what Big Data is, how useful it can be, what Ada Lovelace would have thought of it, and how data played a part in the 2016 US Presidential Election.

Timandra Harkness is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a presenter of BBC Radio 4 documentaries including Divided Nation and the FutureProofing series, author, and event speaker. Her first book, Big Data: Does Size Matter? was published in June 2016 by Bloomsbury Sigma. You can follow Timandra on Twitter @BigDataBook and @TimandraHarkness.

On the rADAr with Julia Gray is a fortnightly podcast series produced with Andersen Press, to celebrate the publication of Julia's new novel, I, Ada: Ada Lovelace: Rebel. Genius. Visionary, a witty and absorbing portrayal of the tumultuous teenage years of Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician who is considered to be the world’s first computer programmer.

Now available in paperback. Head to https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/athomeyalc-2020-ya-samplers/ to read the first two chapters.

Produced by Jonathon Moore and Julia Gray

Mixed and edited by Jonathon Moore

Music by Second Person

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