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Welcome to episode 7 of season 6 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. This is the second of a special two-part episode featuring my esteemed guests, Moritz Stefaner , 'Truth & Beauty Operator' based in Germany, and Enrico Bertini , Associate Professor, Data Visualization Researcher and Educator at Northeastern University in the USA. The...

Welcome to episode 7 of season 6 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. This is the first of a special two-part episode featuring my esteemed guests, Moritz Stefaner , 'Truth & Beauty Operator' based in Germany, and Enrico Bertini , Associate Professor, Data Visualization Researcher and Educator at Northeastern University in the USA. The c...

Welcome to episode 6 of season 6 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. I am delighted to welcome Nicola Rennie , Data Visualisation Specialist based in the UK, and Ansgar Wolsing , Principal Data & Analytics Consultant based in Germany. In this episode we explore five pieces each of their wonderful contributions to the annual ' 30 Day Map...

Welcome to episode 5 of season 6 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. I am delighted to welcome Chaz Hutton , currently based in the UK, who is a man with many creative hats and talents, but it is his role as a cartoonist that we're focusing on in this show. We explore five distinct pieces of his brilliant work that help to illustrate (pun i...

Welcome to episode 4 of season 6 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. I am delighted to welcome Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic , Founder & CEO of Storytelling With Data , and Mike Cisneros , a Data Storyteller and colleague of Cole's, both based in the US. In this episode we explore the story behind their new book, also co-authored with Alex Ve...

Welcome to episode 3 of season 6 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome  Liuhuaying Yang , a Data Visualisation Designer who works at the  Complexity Science Hub  Research Center in Vienna, Austria. We explore the story behind Liuhuaying's unique data visualisation ' Not My Name ', which explor...

Welcome to episode 2 of season 6 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Dr Anna Lombardi , Climate Data Visualiser for Copernicus ECMWF , who is based in the UK. We explore the story behind Anna's extensive data visualisation and design contributions to the ' The European State of the Climate 2...

Welcome to episode 1 of season 6 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. This episode is taken from a recorded webinar held on 27th January 2025 titled ‘Data Viz Freelancing’ and featuring a panel of guests including: Julie Brunet - Data Designer and Creative Director for Nightingale Magazine Tiziana Alocci - Data Artist, Lecturer Obinna Iwuji...

Welcome to episode 9 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Alan Smith , Head of Visual and Data Journalism at the Financial Times in London. We explore the story behind a unique project Alan worked on titled the ' FT Money Machine ': faithfully recreating an analogue computer - bui...

Welcome to episode 8 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. This episode is the second of a two-part special taken from a recorded webinar held on 4th December 2024 titled ‘The State of Data Viz’ and featuring a panel of guests including: Evelina Parrou , Founder & Creative Director at Parabole Studio Rasagy Sharma , Senior Des...

Welcome to episode 7 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. This episode is the first of a two-part special taken from a recorded webinar held on 4th December 2024 titled ‘The State of Data Viz’ and featuring a panel of guests including: Evelina Parrou , Founder & Creative Director at Parabole Studio Rasagy Sharma , Senior Desi...

Welcome to episode 6 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome  Michael Brenner (Head of Creative at Data4Change ), Sarah Slobin (Visual Editor, Reuters ), and Jon Schwabish (Senior Fellow, Urban Institute ). In a show I've titled ‘The Tools of Our Trade’ we explore the substantial mat...

Welcome to episode 5 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. I am delighted to welcome Kat Greenbrook , Data Storyteller, Author, and founder of Rogue Penguin based in Wellington, New Zealand. In this episode, we discussed Kat's life as a freelancer, starting with learning more about her career background leading up to discovering d...

Welcome to episode 4 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome  Dominikus Baur , Data Visualization Designer & Engineer, and Alice Thudt , Data Visualization Designer, who are based in Munich, Germany. We explore the story behind a project titled ' Full Of Themselves: An analysis o...

Welcome to episode 3 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode I am delighted to welcome Natalie Erdem , Managing Partner and Product Manager at TWO-N , based in New York City. We explore the story behind TWO-N's development of the MSNBC Election Big Board , the dynamic visualisation tool used by National Politi...

Welcome to episode 2 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome  Jess Carr , a UI/UX Engineer at GSK based in Bath, UK. We explore the story behind a passion project Jess worked on to visualise analysis of the (spoiler: declining) use of text on the front covers of Vogue magazine over t...

Welcome to episode 1 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. For this season opener, I am delighted to welcome Rebecca Conroy , Co-Founder and Managing Partner, and Duncan Swain , Co-Founder and Creative Partner, from Beyond Words , a design studio based in London, UK. We explore Rebecca and Duncan's career backgrounds, the origin s...

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...

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...

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. Hollyw...

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 A...

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...

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 . We explore the story behind the team's work on the new Nighti...

Welcome to episode 3 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 Steph Bradley , a freelance designer based in Chicago, USA. We explore the story behind her work on the wonderfully charming ' Traveling June Bug ', Steph's award-winning capstone project to visualise the objects, the diari...

Welcome to episode 2 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 Will Chase , Visual Stories Editor, and Jared Whalen , Data Visual Journalist, both working at Axios and based in the US. We explore the story behind their work on a project to visualise the changing trends in popularity an...