My guest this week is Andy Kirk, an independent expert indata visualisation. Andy is a prolific producer of resources on the how-tos of data viz, including the incredibly useful and beautifully crafted book ‘Data visualisation: a handbook for data-driven design.’ Anyone who’s even dipped atoe into the world of data viz online will have come across Andy and his amazing website visualisingdata.com. Andy has lectured and taught on academic programmes, trained people all around the world, and consulted for a wholerange of organisations on how to get visual insight on their data. He also hosts the very successful podcast and videoseries Explore Explain. It’s no exaggeration to call him the King of Data Viz 👑. My personal favourite piece of information about Andy is that he once created an entire book which went into a deep analysis of the TV show Seinfeld through data visualisation.
Some links to things we talked about in the episode:
Andy’s website: www.visualisingdata.com
Inspiring data viz examples:
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/data-visualisation
https://www.dear-data.com/theproject
(Mostly) free dataviz creation tools:
https://flourish.studio/
https://www.rawgraphs.io/
https://www.datawrapper.de/
Andy’s recommendation of one to watch:
https://www.not-ship.com/author/amanda/
The original Seinfeld dataviz project:
https://visualisingdata.com/2020/09/new-project-the-seinfeld-chronicles/
Host: Georgina Sturge
URL: https://georginasturge.substack.com/
Made using Riverside and Audacity
Theme music: 'Binary Dreams' by Georgina Sturge, made using Suno.