BLOG POSTS

Visualisingdata.com was originally launched in 2010 originally to serve as a blog to help continue the momentum of my learning from studying the subject via a Masters degree. I continue to publish articles and share announcements that track developments in my professional experiences as well as developments in the data visualisation field at large.

This is a collection of all my published posts, starting with the newest and dating back to 2010, tracking. These posts include articles, design commentaries, podcast updates, professional updates, and general news from across the data visualisation field.
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Appearance on The Chris Gill Podcast

Last month I had the pleasure of being invited on to The Chris Gill Podcast, a great series where Chris chats with people working within professional sport from around the world. I was there to talk all about data vis, of course, and its relevance/application to sport.

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Andy Kirk November 18, 2024
Podcast

Explore Explain S5 E6: Michael Brenner, Sarah Slobin & Jon Schwabish

Welcome to S5E6 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series about data visualisation design. In this episode I am delighted to welcome Michael Brenner (Head of Creative at Data4Change), Sarah Slobin (Visual Editor, Reuters), and Jon Schwabish (Senior Fellow, Urban Institute) to explore ‘The Tools of Our Trade’.

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Andy Kirk October 30, 2024
Podcast

Explore Explain S5 E5: Kat Greenbrook

Welcome to S5E5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series about data visualisation design. In this episode I chat with Kat Greenbrook, Data Storyteller, Author, and founder of Rogue Penguin based in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Andy Kirk October 7, 2024
Newsletter

The August 2024 newsletter is now open to all

My August newsletter, that was sent out to subscribers at the end of last month, is now open for all to read. You can access this issue, as well as visit the growing catalogue of previous issues, on the Newsletter page.

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Andy Kirk September 2, 2024
Podcast

Explore Explain highlight videos – Season 4

Happy to share news of the release of a new batch of Explore Explain shorter ‘highlights’ videos for Season 4. The idea is to identify, extract, edit, and package up five key insights to emerge from each episode to create short 10-15 mins highlights.

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Andy Kirk August 23, 2024
Newsletter

The July 2024 newsletter is now open to all

My July newsletter, that was sent out to subscribers at the end of last month, is now open for all to read. You can access this issue, as well as visit the growing catalogue of previous issues, on the Newsletter page.

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Andy Kirk August 13, 2024
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Two recent podcast appearances

Over the past couple of months I had the pleasure of appearing on a couple of podcasts: The Cost of Everything and Data + Love. They were both published this week and so I’m happy to share links to the shows.

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Andy Kirk August 8, 2024
Podcast

Explore Explain S5 E4: Dominikus Baur & Alice Thudt

Welcome to S5E4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series about data visualisation design. In this episode I chat with Dominikus Baur and Alice Thudt about their sensational visual exploration, ‘Full of Themselves: An Analysis of Title Drops in Movies’

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Andy Kirk July 17, 2024
Podcast

Explore Explain S5 E3: Natalie Erdem

Welcome to S5E3 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series about data visualisation design. In this episode I chat with Natalie Erdem to explore the story behind TWO-N’s work developing MSNBC’s election big board.

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Andy Kirk June 13, 2024
Podcast

Explore Explain S5 E2: Jess Carr

Welcome to S5E2 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series about data visualisation design. In this episode I chat with Jess Carr to explore the story behind a passion project she worked on titled ‘Since When Does Vogue Hate Text?’. This project was a winner of ‘The Pudding Cup’ 2023 gold prize so it’s a great piece to dissect!

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Andy Kirk May 10, 2024
Podcast

Explore Explain S5 E1: Rebecca Conroy & Duncan Swain

Welcome to S5E1 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series about data visualisation design. In this episode I chat with Rebecca Conroy and Duncan Swain of Beyond Words studio. We explore their career backgrounds, the origin story behind the founding of their studio, and how their subsequent creative and commercial journey over the past decade has been built upon a culture shaped by strong values.

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Andy Kirk April 26, 2024
Podcast

Explore Explain S4 E9: Chloe Whiteaker & Marie Patino

Welcome to S4E9 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series about data visualisation design. In this episode I chat with Chloe Whiteaker and Marie Patino of Bloomberg News. We explore the story behind their unique data visualisation project analysing the staggering wealth of a pop-music phenomenon: “Taylor Swift Vaults Into Billionaire Ranks with Blockbuster Eras Tour”.

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Andy Kirk January 14, 2024
Announcements

Announcing the ‘Visualising Data Newsletter’

I’m very happy to announce details of a newsletter that I will be launching in February. The Visualising Data Newsletter will chronicle the most insightful and delightful data visualisation content every month, sent straight to your inbox.

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Andy Kirk January 14, 2024
Podcast

Explore Explain S4 E8: Denise Lu

Welcome to S4E8 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series about data visualisation design. In this episode I chat with Denise Lu about her side project visualising analysis of the tracks played during the reunion shows of her favourite band: this is ‘Pavement 1933-2023’.

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Andy Kirk December 12, 2023
Articles

Making Sense of Data Visualisation and AI (Part 2)

2023 has seen an explosion in the buzz of new developments and discourse surrounding all things to do with Artificial Intelligence. In this series of posts I’m taking stock of what I know, what I don’t know, what I think, and what I might speculate about what these advancements in AI mean in its applicability for data visualisation.

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Andy Kirk December 5, 2023
Podcast

Explore Explain S4 E7: Amanda Shendruk

Welcome to S4E7 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series about data visualisation design. In this episode I chat with Amanda Shendruk about her visual article for Washington Post Opinions titled ‘Audiences want a different climate change message. Hollywood should deliver.’

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Andy Kirk November 29, 2023
Articles

Making Sense of Data Visualisation and AI (Part 1)

2023 has seen an explosion in the buzz of new developments and discourse surrounding all things to do with Artificial Intelligence. In this series of posts I’m taking stock of what I know, what I don’t know, what I think, and what I might speculate about what these advancements in AI mean in its applicability for data visualisation.

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Andy Kirk November 29, 2023
Podcast

Explore Explain S4 E6: Chimdi Nwosu

Welcome to S4E6 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series about data visualisation design. In this episode I chat with Chimdi Nwosu about two of his data visualisation projects: ‘Incarcerated in America’ and ‘Press Freedom Index’.

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Andy Kirk November 8, 2023
Podcast

Explore Explain highlight videos – Season 3

Happy to share news of the release of the first batch of Explore Explain shorter ‘highlights’ videos for Season 3. The idea is to identify, extract, edit, and package up five key insights to emerge from each episode to create short 10-15 mins highlights.

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Andy Kirk September 7, 2023