Welcome to the first episode of the sixth season of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. This episode is taken from a recorded webinar held on 27th January 2025 titled ‘Data Viz Freelancing’ and featuring a panel of guests including:
- Julie Brunet – Data Designer and Creative Director for Nightingale Magazine
- Tiziana Alocci – Data Artist, Lecturer
- Obinna Iwuji – Content and Business Development Manager
- Anne-Marie Dufour – Data Visualization Designer & Developer
- Vivian Andreozzi – Information Designer and Data Analyst
(Steven Nijman, Data Journalist and Storytelling Specialist, was scheduled to join the panel but unfortunately had to drop out due to illness.)
With contributions from the audience we explore the pleasures and pitfalls of working professionally as a freelancer in the data visualisation field. The panellists offer valuable insight about their experiences, motivations, and advice about ways of working, with plenty of tips and tactics along the way. Non-freelancers are always quite intrigued by what freelancers do and, similarly, freelancers are always intrigued by what other freelancers do. In this conversation we try to satisfy both dimensions of interest!
During the episode audience members who are also freelancers were invited to share links to their respective sites/profiles. These they have been compiled from the chat transcript and shared below:
- https://www.tylermachado.com/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete-sime/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/silviarobertelli/
- https://www.studioterp.nl/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeepkrishnachintapalli/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaspercroome/
- https://www.benediktmayer.com/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-ackermann/
- https://www.instagram.com/patwo_infodesign/
- https://portfolio.elle-est-au-nord.com/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepali-kank/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jibril-mohamed/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alimolloy/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrienneshum/
- https://agnesebartolucci.it/index.htm
- https://bsky.app/profile/vizguy.bsky.social
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommy-hilton-79688a158/
- http://www.bmdata.co.uk/
- http://knottsdesign.com/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-bovey-57542722a/
- https://www.instagram.com/patwo_infodesign/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ukeme-matthew/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiesparkes/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/arshisaleh/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/schubert-de-abreu-47a56037/
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 this link to the audio episode 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.