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Welcome to episode 1 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. For this season opener, I am delighted to welcome Neil Richards , Global Data Fluency Lead at JLL based in Derbyshire, UK. We explore the story behind Neil's new book ' Questions in Dataviz: A Data-Driven Process for Data Visualisation ' to learn about the mental, practica...

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 Franc...

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 phas...

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 s...

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 w...

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-sonifi...

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 c...

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 t...

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 Worl...

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 fo...

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...

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 r...

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-employe...

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 distr...

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 c...

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, Football Analytics Writer for The Athletic (UK). Tom shares the design story behind a data-driven article titled ' Lionel Messi's ten stages of greatness ' (£), which was published in August 2020. As well as listening...

Welcome to episode 3 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 Gurman Bhatia, Graphics Journalist for Reuters, based in Singapore. Gurman shares the design story behind her visualisation project ' The figures behind the faces ' which was published in May 2019. As well as listening to this show...

Welcome to episode 2 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 RJ Andrews, US-based data storyteller, author and founder of 'Info We Trust'. RJ shared the design story behind his visualisation project ' Neil and Buzz Go For a Walk ', which was published in July 2019. As well as listening to th...

Welcome to episode 1 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 Anna Wiederkehr, Senior Visual Journalist at FiveThirtyEight, based in the US. Anna shared the design story behind FiveThirtyEight's flagship US Election Forecast visualisation. As well as listening to this show, you can watch the...

Welcome to episode 9 of season 1 of Explore Explain, a video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Sabine Devins and Sebastian Vollnhals to share the design story behind a visualisation they worked on analysing password data, titled ' Heatscore '. As well as listening to this show, you can watch the video of this conversation, illuminated...

Welcome to episode 8 of season 1 of Explore Explain, a video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Rachael Dottle to share the design story behind a visualisation she produced for FiveThirtyEight in July 2018, titled ' How France And Croatia Made It To The World Cup Final, In One Chart ' . As well as listening to this show, you can watch...

Welcome to episode 7 of season 1 of Explore Explain, a video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Jan Willem Tulp to share the design story behind a visualisation he produced for the Dutch railway authority in 2020. As well as listening to this show, you can watch the video of this conversation, illuminated by accompanying visual details...

Welcome to episode 6 of season 1 of Explore Explain, a video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Sonja Kuijpers to share the design story behind her award-winning visualisation ' A View on Despair ', a very personal project which was published in 2019. ** Content warning: This episode discusses visualising data about suicide. If you nee...

Welcome to episode 5 of season 1 of Explore Explain, a video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Simon Scarr to share the design story behind his work on two Reuters visualisations about plastics: ' Drowning in plastic ' and ' A plateful of plastic '. As well as listening to this show, you can watch the video of this conversation, illum...

Welcome to episode 4 of season 1 of Explore Explain, a video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Nadieh Bremer to share the design story behind her work on a client visualisation for a startup company called 'alis_'. As well as listening to this show, you can watch the video of this conversation, illuminated by accompanying visual detai...