Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had some time to rest and relax with friends and family. Thanks for tuning into the show. On this week’s episode, I’m excited to chat with Amelia Wattenberger, a developer and designer focused…
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Robert Simmon is a data visualizer and designer working with Planet. He focuses on producing visualizations that are elegant and easily understandable, while accurately presenting the underlying data. He helped create some of NASA and Planet’s most widely-seen imagery, including…
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Kenneth Field is a ‘cartonerd’ with a Bachelors degree in cartography and PhD in GIS. A former academic who grew tired of admin, he ditched his 20 year career, moved to the US, and talks and writes about cartography, teaches,…
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Sandra Rendgen is an author, consultant and concept developer with a focus on data visualization, interactive media and the history of infographics. She is the author of several books about historical and current developments in the field, most recently History…
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About two years ago, my son received an Xbox One for the holidays. A few months later, alongside the Washington Capitals Stanley Cup run, he and I played a bunch of NHL on the new system. A weird pattern started…
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Claus O. Wilke is a computational and evolutionary biologist and chair of the Department of Integrative Biology at University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Dwight W. and Blanche Faye Reeder Centennial Fellow in Systematic and Evolutionary Biology….
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The primary workflow of many organizations goes through the Microsoft Office system. They use PowerPoint for presentations, Word for documents and reports, and Excel for data analysis and visualization. For some of these organizations, applying their branding styles and guidelines…
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I started creating Excel versions of the graphs in the Financial Times’ Visual Vocabulary a couple of weeks ago and have successfully completed all but 13. The FT’s graphic library was based on the Graphic Continuum work Severino Ribecca and…
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Michael Freeman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington Information School, where he teaches courses in data science, interactive data visualization, and web development. Prior to his teaching career, he worked as a data visualization specialist and research…
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RJ Andrews is a data storyteller. He is the author of the new book Info We Trust, a lavish adventure exploring how to inspire the world with data. RJ blends creative arts and data science to inform. As an independent creative…
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