As a journalist and a designer who writes for other journalists and designers, I'm always puzzled—and also flattered and a bit terrified—when I get invited to conferences or podcasts run by statisticians, data scientists, of information library science types, but here we are. A couple of weeks ago I had a
nice conversation with
Alexander Schacht, a mathematician and biostatistician at
UCB, who has a podcast called
The Effective Statistician.
We
talked about charts, the coronavirus, the importance of design for scientists and researchers, and the importance of science for designers. I mentioned tools I love, such as
DataWrapper,
Flourish,
iNZight, books such as Steve Few's
Show Me the Numbers, Cole's
Storytelling With Data, Tufte's, Tukey's, Cleveland's, and Michael Friendly's work (
1,
2, and his
upcoming book,) on the history of visualization.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
