Hey,
My name is Gareth. Most people call me G.
I live in Pembrokeshire… in a small town on the Welsh coast where the sea is genuinely cold and the light is a photographer’s dream. I moved here with my family, and most mornings I’m glad we did.
I work in data science. I’ve spent a long time helping organisations make sense of numbers, build models, and understand what the patterns in their data actually mean… and how they relate to people. I like that work. But I’ve always felt a quiet tension in it… because I’m also a person of faith, and a lot of what matters most to me doesn’t show up in any dataset.
That tension is part of why this place exists.
This site is a digital garden. If that phrase means nothing to you, don’t worry… it’s not something you need to overthink. The short version is this: it’s somewhere to put down my thoughts. Not a blog full of hot takes, not a portfolio of achievements, not a newsletter you feel guilty about unsubscribing from. Just a place where I grow ideas slowly, tend them over time, and share them honestly… even when they’re unfinished.
There are three roots to the garden.
The Garden is about how I’m living. Faith as it shows up in everyday life, letters to my boy as he grows, the Pembrokeshire coast. The ordinary stuff… looked at carefully.
The Orchard is about what I’m learning. Data science, AI, theology, the books I’m working through, podcasts I’m getting distracted by… other people’s ideas that have resonated.
The Trail is about what I’m still exploring. The questions I can’t quite close. The places where the map runs out.
It often feels like the world is trying to keep up with itself… AI, quantum, fusion, rockets to the Moon and Mars. At times it feels like we’re living inside a sci-fi novel… sometimes a bad one, sometimes a glorious one.
And through all of that, the tension remains. Faith.
We haven’t really changed as people. The need for faith… and what it teaches us… hasn’t changed. But the pace of technology is breathtaking.
Some of what you’ll find here is fully developed. Some of it is still finding its shape. I try to be honest about which is which.
I didn’t grow up with faith. I came to it slowly… sideways, and not always willingly. Through a biochemistry degree, a vicar’s daughter, a few of life’s heavier moments that cracked things open… and eventually a night alone on a quayside in a storm, where I ran out of arguments.
It took a long time. But something shifted… and it changed how I see everything else, including the data.
I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything. I’m just trying to write honestly about the life I’m actually living… which happens to include both regression models and prayer.
If something here is useful, I’m glad. If something here makes you think, even better.
If you want to get in touch, there’s a contact page.
Come in. Look around.
The garden is still new.