98 | Data Sketches with Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu

Data Stories

In this episode Moritz meets Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu for a face-to-face episode in Berlin.

Nadieh and Shirley recently paired up to create Data Sketches, a twelve-month collaboration. Each month they choose a topic and develop a visualization on their theme.

One nice aspect of the project is that they keep track of their entire development process, including the steps they followed to prepare the data, sketch the ideas, and create the final visualizations.

On the show we talk about the organization of the projects, some favorite visualizations from the year, the partnership between the collaborators, and how they balance Data Sketches with their freelancing work.

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Chapters

1. Our sponsor: Qlick (00:00:09)

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2. Welcome back to Data Stories! (00:00:52)

3. Episode 100 is coming - leave us a voice message! (00:01:16)

4. Introducing our guests: Shirley Wu & Nadieh Bremer (00:02:10)

5. Nadieh Bremer (00:02:40)

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6. Shirley Wu (00:03:26)

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7. Their project: Data Sketches (00:05:06)

http://www.datasketch.es

8. Organizational structure of the project (00:07:09)

9. Overview of types of viz projects (00:11:21)

10. Data viz in pop culture (00:17:04)

11. How is your design process? Sketching by hand vs. with code (00:21:15)

12. Are you inspired by other projects? (00:25:18)

13. How is working in a team affect your motivation? (00:26:55)

14. Balancing of paid and leisure projects (00:30:17)

15. How does the project affect your freelancing work? (00:32:57)

16. Your take on the "vis crisis"? (00:35:25)

17. What's next for you after Datasketches? (00:38:41)

18. Get in touch & back us on Patreon (00:41:39)

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19. Our sponsor: Qlick (00:43:09)

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