Big tech is transforming every aspect of our world. But how, and at what cost? This season of Land of the Giants – The Disney Dilemma – focuses on Disney’s ability to weather the ups and downs of the business cycle and changing tastes and explores what has kept it successful for over 100 years. The entertainment giant has leveraged nostalgia and its intellectual property to build a beloved brand, but after an acquisition spree that included Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Fox, can it sus ...
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Why don’t we use triangles in charts more often? Can design considerations come before we have the data? Do we take data visualization too seriously? Author, speaker, and data literacy advocate Neil Richards raises (and occasionally answers) these and other questions in his new book, Questions in Dataviz: a Data-Driven Process for Data Visualization. In this episode, Neil stops by the podcast to talk about the value of creativity, personal passion projects, experimentation in data visualization, and whether dataviz can change the world.
related links:
- Follow Neil: Twitter | Website | Tableau Public (portfolio)
- Book: Questions in Dataviz
- Podcast: Alli Torban’s Dataviz Today
- Project: Makeover Monday
- SWD challenge: https://community.storytellingwithdata.com/challenges
- Project: Viz for Social Good
- Project: Andy Kirk’s The Seinfeld Chronicles
- Viz: US county hexmap
- Viz: Pet ownership in the UK
- Project: Data Visualization Society
- Project: Information is Beautiful Awards
- Get sample content & order storytelling with you: storytellingwithyou.com
- University instructor resources: storytelling with data.com/university
- SWD YouTube channel: storytellingwithdata.com/youtube
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