Explore Explain S1 E5: Simon Scarr

I’m delighted to launch the first season of Explore Explain, a video and podcast series about data visualisation design.

For episode five it was a pleasure to welcome Simon Scarr. We had a detailed conversation about two visualisations he worked on at Reuters, both about plastics: ‘Drowning in plastic‘ and ‘A plateful of plastic‘.


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Video Conversation

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Audio Conversation

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