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A podcast on data and how it affects our lives — with Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner

155  |  Flourish with Duncan Clark

Feb 13 2020 | 00:41:11

Duncan is the CEO of Flourish, a popular data visualization tool to help people create storytelling visualizations from data. Duncan founded Flourish together with Robin Houston in 2016 and since then they made a lot of progress and acquired a large user base.

149  |  xkcd or the art of data storytelling with web cartoons

Nov 05 2019 | 00:49:49

Randall Munroe is the mastermind behind the xkcd webcomics which have zillions of fans around the globe. In his stick figure cartoons and hilarious mini-stories, he comments on complicated scientific issues. Over the years, Randall has also created a number of data-heavy visualizations. Some of them tackle pressing issues such as climate change, while others mock conventions of visualization such as map projections or chart types.

147  |  Iconic Climate Visuals with Ed Hawkins

Oct 09 2019 | 00:39:16

We have climate scientist Ed Hawkins on the show to talk about climate visualization. Ed is the person behind the famous Climate Spirals and Climate Stripe visualizations, both of which have a made a huge impact beyond the climate science community.

146  |  Sweating the details with Nicholas Rougeux

Sep 25 2019 | 00:39:30

We have digital artist Nicholas Rougeux on the show to talk about his beautiful data art projects and the processes he follows. Nicholas created numerous iconic pieces with an extraordinary attention to details, such as "Seeing Music"...

145  |  FT Data Crunch with Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch

Sep 11 2019 | 00:40:44

We have Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch on the show to talk about their new Financial Times visualization series called Data Crunch. The series features Federica and John having a data-driven conversation about some social or economic trend while aided by graphs and charts. It's a new way of doing data visualization...

143  |  The Pudding with Matt Daniels

Jul 31 2019 | 00:52:19

We have Matt Daniels on the show again. He is the CEO of The Pudding, a collective of journalist-engineers that create visual essays that explain ideas debated in culture. Their pieces are incredibly engaging, somewhat witty and always stunning from the visual point of view.

Data Is Personal with Evan Peck

Jul 10 2019 | 00:42:26

[Our podcast is fully listener-supported. That’s why you don’t have to listen to ads! Please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or sending us a one-time donation through Paypal. And thank you!] We have Evan Peck on the show to talk about the research he and his students recently published on "Data Is Personal". The study consists of 42 interviews made in rural Pennsylvania to see how people from different educational backgrounds ranked a set of various data visualizations.

Sketching and Visual Thinking with Eva-Lotta Lamm

Jun 19 2019 | 00:40:37

[Our podcast is fully listener-supported. That’s why you don’t have to listen to ads! Please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or sending us a one-time donation through Paypal. And thank you!] We have Eva-Lotta Lamm joining us to talk about the value of sketching and how it relates to data visualization. Eva-Lotta is a UX designer turned expert on sketching and sketchnoting: the art of summarizing talks through sketches. In the show we talk about visual thinking, sketchnoting and parallels with data visualization.