Welcome to episode 9 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this season finale, I am delighted to welcome Chloe Whiteaker, Data Visualization Team Leader, and Marie Patino, Graphics Reporter, from Bloomberg News in New York. We explore the story behind their unique data visualisation project analysing the staggering wealth of a pop-music phenomenon: "Taylor Swift Vaults Into Billionaire Ranks with Blockbuster Eras...

Welcome to episode 8 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Denise Lu, Graphics reporter at Bloomberg News, based in New York City. We explore the story behind her side project visualising her analysis of the tracks played during the reunion shows of her favourite band, Pavement. The day before this episode was launched, it was announced that this project had won 'The Pudding...

Welcome to episode 7 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Amanda Shendruk, Opinion Graphics Reporter at the Washington Post, based in Edinburgh, UK. We explore the story behind Amanda's visual article for Opinions titled 'Audiences want a different climate change message. Hollywood should deliver.' looking at the portrayal of climate change in movies and TV shows. As well...

Welcome to episode 6 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Chimdi Nwosu, a Data Visualization Manager based in British Columbia, Canada. We explore the story behind not one but two of his wonderful Tableau-based data visualisation projects: 'Incarcerated in America' (published August 2021) and 'Press Freedom Index' (published May 2023). As well as listening to this show,...

Welcome to episode 5 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Lora Oehlberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Calgary in Canada, and Samuel Huron, Associate Professor in Design at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris in France. We explore the story behind their work, with fellow co-authors Wesley Willett and Till Nagel, on the new book 'Making with...

Welcome to episode 4 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this special episode I am delighted to welcome the editorial team behind Nightingale Magazine, the journal of the Data Visualization Society: Claire Santoro, Emily Barone, Julie Brunet, and Jason Forrest. This episode was live-recorded on stage as part of Outlier Conference, which took place in Porto in early May 2023. Jason was live in-person for the...

Welcome to episode 3 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Steph Bradley, a freelance designer based in Chicago, USA. In this latest episode, we explored the story behind her work on the wonderfully charming 'Traveling June Bug', Steph's award-winning capstone project to visualise the objects, the diaries, the destinations, and the timelines across her Grandmother's 30 years of...

Welcome to episode 2 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Will Chase, Visual Stories Editor, and Jared Whalen, Data Visual Journalist, both working at Axios and based in the US. In this latest episode, we explored the story behind their work on a project to visualise the changing trends in popularity and dimensions of pickup trucks 'Pickup Trucks: From Workhorse to Joyride'. As...

Welcome to episode 1 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Neil Richards, Global Data Fluency Lead at JLL based in Derbyshire, UK. For this season opener, we explored the story behind Neil's new book 'Questions in Dataviz: A Data-Driven Process for Data Visualisation' to learn about the mental, practical, and creative process of writing his first title. As well as listening to...

Welcome to episode 9 of season 3 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Francis Gagnon, founder of Voilà:, an information design firm based in Montreal, Canada. For this season finale, we embarked on a detailed exploration to learn about the process of setting up a data visualisation company as Francis explained the story behind evolving from being an independent professional, working alone,...

Welcome to episode 8 of season 3 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Ros Pearce, Visual Data Journalist at The Economist. We had a detailed conversation to explore the clever thinking behind an in-depth data study titled 'Nearly half of Mariupol has suffered grave damage' looking at the early phase of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, published in April 2022. As well as listening to this...

Welcome to episode 7 of season 3 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Mick Yang, who at the time of the recording was the Partnerships Executive, and Munirah Mansoor, Visual Designer, at Kontinentalist, based in Singapore. We had a detailed conversation about the data and design story behind a data story 'Sexual violence in Singapore: a crisis', produced and published by the Kontinentalist...

Welcome to episode 6 of season 3 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Sam Parsons, Senior Analytics Consultant with Biztory. We had a detailed conversation about the data and design story behind Sam's visualisation 'Rivers of Time', a vast visual study of time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As well as listening to this show, you can watch the video of this conversation, illuminated by...

Welcome to episode 5 of season 3 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Valentina D'Efilippo, freelance design director, trainer, speaker, and author. We had a detailed conversation about the data and design story behind Valentina's project 'London Under The Microscope', a unique visualisation-sonification video project portraying the impact of Covid-19 on London. As well as listening to...

Welcome to episode 4 of season 3 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Eleanor Lutz, Graphics Editor at New York Times, and Lisa Waananen Jones, journalist, designer, and Professor. We had a detailed conversation about the data and design story behind the New York Times' ongoing project to track the coronavirus status around the world and across the States. As well as listening to this...

Welcome to episode 3 of season 3 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Jane Zhang, an independent data visualization designer based in Toronto. We had a detailed conversation about the design story behind a project Jane worked on titled the 'The food your grandmother made'. As well as listening to this show, you can watch the video of this conversation, illuminated by accompanying visual...

Welcome to episode 2 of season 3 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Thomas Clever, co-founder and Managing Director of data design and technology company, 'CLEVERºFRANKE'. We had a detailed conversation about the design story behind a project he and his team worked on titled the 'Globalance World'. As well as listening to this show, you can watch the video of this conversation,...

Welcome to episode 1 of season 3 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Andrea Lau, data visualisation designer and co-founder of the Australian-based data visualisation consultancy 'Small Multiples'. We had a detailed conversation about the design story behind a project she and her team worked on for the UNDP during 2020 titled the 'COVID-19 Socio-Economic Recovery Data Insight...

Welcome to episode 9 of season 2 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Miriam Quick - journalist, researcher, and author - and Stefanie Posavec - designer, artist, and author. We had a detailed conversation about their creative process developing and designing a new book they co-authored titled 'I am a book. I am a portal to the universe.', which was published in September 2020. As well as...

Welcome to episode 8 of season 2 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Craig Taylor, Senior Data Visualisation Design Manager, Ito World. We had a detailed conversation about the data, design, and production story behind a 'data art'-inspired video he created called 'Transit in Motion', which was released in June 2020. As well as listening to this show, you can watch the video of this...

Welcome to episode 7 of season 2 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Jen Christiansen, Senior Data Reporter at The Guardian (US), and Moritz Stefaner, .In this seventh episode I am delighted to welcome Jen Christiansen, Senior Graphics Editor at Scientific American, and Moritz Stefaner, self-employed 'Truth and Beauty Operator'. We had a detailed conversation about the data, editorial, and...

Welcome to episode 6 of season 2 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Alvin Chang, Senior Data Reporter at The Guardian (US). Alvin shares the data, editorial, and design story behind a long-form article titled 'We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. This is how well your district does', that he wrote for Vox, published in 2018. As well as listening to this show, you...

Welcome to episode 5 of season 2 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Giorgia Lupi, information designer and partner at Pentagram, New York. Giorgia shares the design story behind a data-driven fashion collection she developed for '&Other Stories' in 2019. As well as listening to this show, you can watch the video of this conversation, illuminated by accompanying visual details of...

Welcome to episode 4 of season 2 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Tom Worville to share the design story behind a data-driven article he worked on for The Athletic titled 'Lionel Messi's ten stages of greatness' (£), which was published in August 2020. As well as listening to this show, you can watch the video of this conversation, illuminated by accompanying visual details of Tom's...