152 | Year in Review 2019
12/19/19 • 109 min
Hi everyone! We are once again at the end of a whole year. After having “end of the year episodes” with other podcasters, going around the world, and chatting with Andy and Robert, we decided to try something different this time: we asked a group of data visualization professionals to send us an audio snippet summarizing what happened in specific areas of the field over the last year. The result is a great multifaceted collage of stories and personalities. See below who we have interviewed and what they talked about.
Happy New Year! Thanks so much for listening to the show. We’ll see you in 2020 with a whole set of great new episodes!
[Our podcast is fully listener-supported. That’s why you don’t have to listen to ads! Please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or sending us a one-time donation through Paypal. And thank you!]
Links:
Alberto Cairo on Data literacy
- Nightingale, a publication edited by the Data visualization society
- Improvement of free or freemium tools: Datawrapper, Flourish. Crowdsourcing of RawGraphs successful
- New popularizing books: Ben Jones’ “Avoiding Data Pitfalls” / Stephanie Evergreen’s “Data Visualization Sketchbook” / Cole Nussbaumer’s “Storytelling with Data: Let’s Practice!” / Alberto Cairo’s own: “How Charts Lie”
- The pace at which podcasts such as yours publish (not a new development, but still)
- Andy Kirk’s Little of Visualization design series (ongoing effort)
- Alberto’s own recent MOOC (12,000+ people)
- Upcoming conferences: IRE-NICAR, Malofiej, Computation+Journalism, the Data Visualization Society conference, etc.
Amelia Wattenberger on Learning data visualization from a newcomer’s perspective
- Data visualization society
- Figma (UI design tool)
- Lots of free tutorials and ways to get started in data viz
- Amelia’s bird’s eye view of the library
- Challenge: awareness about where data comes from!
- The erroneousness of considering data as “facts”
- Show how data can be biased or misconstrued
Andy Kirk on Data tools
- The acquisition of Looker by Google
- Flourish
- Data Wrapper
- Raw Graphs (fundraising for v2.0)
- Challenge:
- Data illustrator and
Hi everyone! We are once again at the end of a whole year. After having “end of the year episodes” with other podcasters, going around the world, and chatting with Andy and Robert, we decided to try something different this time: we asked a group of data visualization professionals to send us an audio snippet summarizing what happened in specific areas of the field over the last year. The result is a great multifaceted collage of stories and personalities. See below who we have interviewed and what they talked about.
Happy New Year! Thanks so much for listening to the show. We’ll see you in 2020 with a whole set of great new episodes!
[Our podcast is fully listener-supported. That’s why you don’t have to listen to ads! Please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or sending us a one-time donation through Paypal. And thank you!]
Links:
Alberto Cairo on Data literacy
- Nightingale, a publication edited by the Data visualization society
- Improvement of free or freemium tools: Datawrapper, Flourish. Crowdsourcing of RawGraphs successful
- New popularizing books: Ben Jones’ “Avoiding Data Pitfalls” / Stephanie Evergreen’s “Data Visualization Sketchbook” / Cole Nussbaumer’s “Storytelling with Data: Let’s Practice!” / Alberto Cairo’s own: “How Charts Lie”
- The pace at which podcasts such as yours publish (not a new development, but still)
- Andy Kirk’s Little of Visualization design series (ongoing effort)
- Alberto’s own recent MOOC (12,000+ people)
- Upcoming conferences: IRE-NICAR, Malofiej, Computation+Journalism, the Data Visualization Society conference, etc.
Amelia Wattenberger on Learning data visualization from a newcomer’s perspective
- Data visualization society
- Figma (UI design tool)
- Lots of free tutorials and ways to get started in data viz
- Amelia’s bird’s eye view of the library
- Challenge: awareness about where data comes from!
- The erroneousness of considering data as “facts”
- Show how data can be biased or misconstrued
Andy Kirk on Data tools
- The acquisition of Looker by Google
- Flourish
- Data Wrapper
- Raw Graphs (fundraising for v2.0)
- Challenge:
- Data illustrator and
Previous Episode
151 | Future Data Interfaces with David Sheldon-Hicks
In this episode we talk about “future interfaces” with David Sheldon-Hicks: interfaces that are developed in futuristic movies. David is the founder and creative director of Territory Studio. They are the people behind the screen design of a lot of iconic movies such as The Martian, Blade Runner and Ex Machina.
On the show, we talk about what it takes to develop this kind of interfaces and how they interact with film directors. We also talk about interaction paradigms and classic movies from the past. David also provides a few tips on how to get started in this space. Note: they are hiring!
Enjoy the show!
[Our podcast is fully listener-supported. That’s why you don’t have to listen to ads! Please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or sending us a one-time donation through Paypal. And thank you!]
Films in which Territory Studio was involved (in the order of their mentioning):
The Martian (2015, Ridley Scott)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, James Gunn)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017, Denis Villeneuve)
Ex Machina (2015, Alex Garland)
James Bond – No Time To Die (forthcoming 2020, Cary Fukunaga)
Prometheus (2012, Ridley Scott)
Legends of the past:
Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg)
War Games (1983, John Badham)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977, George Lucas)
Next Episode
153 | Data Art and Visual Programming with Marcin Ignac from Variable
We have Marcin Ignac from Variable to talk about Data Art. Marcin and his studio have a very nice mix of data visualization and generative design projects creating stunning visuals for brands such as Nike and IBM.
On the show we talk about the scope and unique features of data art, the process the studio follows, the specific set of tools Marcin developed for visual programming and tips to get started with this kind of projects. See the long list of pointers in the links below!
[Our podcast is fully listener-supported. That’s why you don’t have to listen to ads! Please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or sending us a one-time donation through Paypal. And thank you!]
Links
- Variable studio website
- Variable’s Twitter profile
- Marcin’s Twitter profile
- Technology Garden (IBM) – bringing Wimbledon Championships tennis data to live
- Rat-Systems – visualizing a colony of naked mole rats
- Fibers – visualization of the Nike Fuel band fitness data
- Nine Point Five (earthquake visualization)
- PEX – set of JavaScript libraries for working with 3d graphics
- Getting started with data art and generative design:
-
- http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/2/ (v2 for p5js)
- https://frontendmasters.com/courses/canvas-webgl/ by Matt Des Lauriers
- Daniel Shiffman https://natureofcode.com/book/ and https://thecodingtrain.com
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/Tutorial
- https://www.programmingdesignsystems.com
- https://thebookofshaders.com
- https://www.dataisnature.com blog
- Computational – Drawing Book – http://lostritto.com/book
- https://inconvergent.net/generative/
Related episodes
If you like this episode you’ll love
Episode Comments
Generate a badge
Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode
<a href="https://goodpods.com/podcasts/data-stories-87233/152-year-in-review-2019-4701119"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/goodpods-images-bucket/badges/generic-badge-1.svg" alt="listen to 152 | year in review 2019 on goodpods" style="width: 225px" /> </a>
Copy