Welcome to the seventh AND eighth episodes of the fifth season of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design.
These episodes form a two-part special taken from a recorded webinar held on 4th December 2024 titled ‘The State of Data Viz’ and featuring a panel of guests including:
- Evelina Parrou, Founder & Creative Director at Parabole Studio
- Rasagy Sharma, Senior Design Manager for DataLabs at Capital One
- Joe Sharpe, Co-Founder of Applied Works
- Juuso Koponen, Co-Founder of Koponen+Hildén
- Lisa Charlotte Muth, Data Vis Writer at Datawrapper
- …as well as invaluable co-hosting by Obinna Iwuji
The panellists were hand-picked to offer their valuable insights about the state of the data visualisation field. Collectively they covered the full spectrum of professional participation: design practice, academia and education, professional services, journalism, book authoring, tool vendor, community leadership.
With contributions from the live audience, raising questions and responding to questions about the topics being explored, we set out to cover a range of different topics relating to this field:
- What’s good and what’s got better?
- What’s bad and what’s got worse?
- What are we hopeful about?
- What are we concerned about?
- What are the risks and opportunities for this field to flourish?
In the first-part (episode 7) we explored ‘the practice and the people‘ looking at:
- Creations: Trends in data vis methods, products, techniques, discourse
- Professions: Freelancing/studios, roles/teams in organisations, journalism, academia etc.
- People: Who is in this field, who is not but who should be? Membership, diversity, leadership, geographic representation, age profile, language
In the second-part (episode 8) we moved on to cover ‘the research and the resources‘ looking at:
- Academia: Research, education, knowledge transfer, graduates, talent pool
- Tech: Tools and data vis technological developments
- Resources: Communities, social media, websites, books, events
Here are links to some of the references mentioned during these episodes:
- Will be added
Video Conversation
You can watch this episode using the embedded player below or over on the dedicated Explore Explain Youtube channel, where you’ll find all the other video-based episodes and curated playlists.
Audio Conversation
To listen directly, visit these links to episode 7 and episode 8 or use the embedded podcast player below. The audio podcast is published across all common platforms (such as Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music etc.), so you will find this series listed in their respective directories by searching for ‘Explore Explain’ or by manually entering – or copying/pasting – this url to your subscriptions – https://feed.pod.co/exploreexplain.