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Explore Explain

Explore Explain is a long-form podcast and video series hosted by Andy Kirk and launched early 2020. It goes deep behind the scenes of data visualisation projects. Each episode is structured around a conversation with visualisation designers, developers, or data journalists to explore the design story behind a single visualisation or a related major project. Guests explain the thought-process behind and share insights about the myriad little decisions that underpin the finished works they

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S6E3 - Liuhuaying Yang

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2025/10/24

Welcome to episode 3 of season 6 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design.In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Liuhuaying Yang, a Data Visualisation Designer who works at the Complexity Science Hub Research Center in Vienna, Austria. We explore the story behind Liuhuaying's unique data visualisation 'Not My Name', which explores the process and components of translating Chinese names into Pinyin. As well as listening to this

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01:14:41

S6E2 - Dr Anna Lombardi

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2025/09/11

Welcome to episode 2 of season 6 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design.In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Dr Anna Lombardi, Climate Data Visualiser for Copernicus ECMWF, who is based in the UK. We explore the story behind Anna's extensive data visualisation and design contributions to the 'The European State of the Climate 2024', which offers a detailed overview of climate conditions in Europe and the Arctic region in 2024,

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01:12:44

S6E1 - SPECIAL GUEST PANEL - Data Viz Freelancing

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2025/02/12

Welcome to episode 1 of season 6 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 MagazineTiziana Alocci - Data Artist, LecturerObinna Iwuji - Content and Business Development ManagerAnne-Marie Dufour - Data Visualization Designer &

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S5E9 - Alan Smith

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2025/01/17

Welcome to episode 9 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design.In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Alan Smith, Head of Visual and Data Journalism at the Financial Times in London. We explore the story behind a unique project Alan worked on titled the 'FT Money Machine': faithfully recreating an analogue computer - built in 1949 by Bill Phillips designed to model the flow of an Economy using water and pumps - but

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00:42:07

S5E8 - SPECIAL GUEST PANEL - The State of Data Viz...

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2024/12/12

Welcome to episode 8 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design.This episode is the second of 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 StudioRasagy Sharma, Senior Design Manager for DataLabs at Capital One Joe Sharpe, Co-Founder of Applied WorksJuuso Koponen,

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01:21:05

S5E7 - SPECIAL GUEST PANEL - The State of Data Viz...

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2024/12/12

Welcome to episode 7 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. This episode is the first of 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 StudioRasagy Sharma, Senior Design Manager for DataLabs at Capital One Joe Sharpe, Co-Founder of Applied WorksJuuso Koponen,

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01:13:49

S5E6 - Michael Brenner, Sarah Slobin & Jon Schwabish

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2024/10/29

Welcome to episode 6 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design.In this latest 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). In a show I've titled ‘The Tools of Our Trade’ we explore the substantial matter of data visualisation technology, explaining how we feel about the current state of data viz tools

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01:08:42

S5E5 - Kat Greenbrook

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2024/10/07

Welcome to episode 5 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. I am delighted to welcome Kat Greenbrook, Data Storyteller, Author, and founder of Rogue Penguin based in Wellington, New Zealand. In this episode, we discussed Kat's life as a freelancer, starting with learning more about her career background leading up to discovering data visualisation and then the process of switching her path towards being an independent

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01:17:25

S5E4 - Dominikus Baur & Alice Thudt

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2024/07/17

Welcome to episode 4 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design.In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Dominikus Baur, Data Visualization Designer & Engineer, and Alice Thudt, Data Visualization Designer, who are based in Munich, Germany. We explore the story behind a project titled 'Full Of Themselves: An analysis of title drops in movies' which analyses and visualises all instances in a movie when one of the

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S5E3 - Natalie Erdem

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2024/06/13

Welcome to episode 3 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design.In this latest episode I am delighted to welcome Natalie Erdem, Managing Partner and Product Manager at TWO-N, based in New York City. We explore the story behind TWO-N's development of the MSNBC Election Big Board, the dynamic visualisation tool used by National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, Steve Kornacki during the live broadcast of the 2018 US

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01:09:12

S5E2 - Jess Carr

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2024/05/10

Welcome to episode 2 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design.In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Jess Carr, a UI/UX Engineer at GSK based in Bath, UK. We explore the story behind a passion project Jess worked on to visualise analysis of the (spoiler: declining) use of text on the front covers of Vogue magazine over the last 22 years, titled 'Since When Does Vogue Hate Text?'. This project was a winner of 'The

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01:07:47

S5E1 - Rebecca Conroy & Duncan Swain

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2024/04/26

Welcome to episode 1 of season 5 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design.For this season opener, I am delighted to welcome Rebecca Conroy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, and Duncan Swain, Co-Founder and Creative Partner, from Beyond Words, a design studio based in London, UK. We explore Rebecca and Duncan's career backgrounds, the origin story behind the founding of their studio, and how their subsequent creative and commercial journey

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01:09:54

S4E9 - Chloe Whiteaker & Marie Patino

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2024/01/16

Welcome to episode 9 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design.In this season finale, I am delighted to welcome Chloe Whiteaker, Data Visualization Team Leader, and Marie Patino, Graphics Reporter, from Bloomberg News in New York. 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". As

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01:10:08

S4E8 - Denise Lu

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2023/12/12

Welcome to episode 8 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Denise Lu, Graphics reporter at Bloomberg News, based in New York City. We explore the story behind her side project visualising her analysis of the tracks played during the reunion shows of her favourite band, Pavement. The day before this episode was launched, it was announced that this project had won 'The Pudding

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S4E7 - Amanda Shendruk

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2023/11/29

Welcome to episode 7 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Amanda Shendruk, Opinion Graphics Reporter at the Washington Post, based in Edinburgh, UK. We explore the story behind Amanda's visual article for Opinions titled 'Audiences want a different climate change message. Hollywood should deliver.' looking at the portrayal of climate change in movies and TV shows. As well as

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01:07:42

S4E6 - Chimdi Nwosu

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2023/11/08

Welcome to episode 6 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Chimdi Nwosu, a Data Visualization Manager based in British Columbia, Canada. We explore the story behind not one but two of his wonderful Tableau-based data visualisation projects: 'Incarcerated in America' (published August 2021) and 'Press Freedom Index' (published May 2023). As well as listening to this show, you

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01:09:06

S4E5 - Lora Oehlberg & Samuel Huron

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2023/07/31

Welcome to episode 5 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Lora Oehlberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Calgary in Canada, and Samuel Huron, Associate Professor in Design at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris in France. We explore the story behind their work, with fellow co-authors Wesley Willett and Till Nagel, on the new book 'Making with Data:

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00:59:35

S4E4 - The Nightingale Editorial Team

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2023/06/13

Welcome to episode 4 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this special episode I am delighted to welcome the editorial team behind Nightingale Magazine, the journal of the Data Visualization Society: Claire Santoro, Emily Barone, Julie Brunet, and Jason Forrest. We explore the story behind the team's work on the new Nightingale print magazine, learning about the context, the content, the design, and key reflections from

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S4E3 - Steph Bradley

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2023/05/15

Welcome to episode 3 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Steph Bradley, a freelance designer based in Chicago, USA. We explore the story behind her work on the wonderfully charming 'Traveling June Bug', Steph's award-winning capstone project to visualise the objects, the diaries, the destinations, and the timelines across her Grandmother's 30 years of documented travels. As

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01:12:46

S4E2 - Will Chase & Jared Whalen

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2023/04/04

Welcome to episode 2 of season 4 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series all about data visualisation design. In this latest episode, I am delighted to welcome Will Chase, Visual Stories Editor, and Jared Whalen, Data Visual Journalist, both working at Axios and based in the US. We explore the story behind their work on a project to visualise the changing trends in popularity and dimensions of pickup trucks 'Pickup Trucks: From Workhorse to Joyride'. As well as listening to

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