152  |  Year in Review 2019

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.

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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