133 | Year Review 2018

Data Stories

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Here we go! Another year has passed and lots has happened in the data visualization world. This time we decided to scramble things up again with a new annual review format: five podcasters (including ourselves!) reflecting back on year 2018. We’re lucky to be joined by Jon Schwabish from PolicyViz, Alli Torban from DataViz Today, and Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic from Storytelling with Data.

This was a long chat! But we had a lot to cover: major trends, favorite projects, new tools, and standout people, companies, studios, conferences, books, and blogs. There is a lot to learn there. Don’t miss our long list of links below!

As always, thanks for following along with us this year. And special thanks go to our supporters and to Destry and Florian for their amazing work behind the scenes.

We wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

Links

Major Trends

• Makeover Monday
• Storytelling With Data Challenge
• Help Me Viz
• IEEE VIS 2018

Favorite Projects

• Flowing Data’s “Divorce and Occupation”
• The New York Times’s “Tracing a Meme From the Internet’s Fringe to a Republican Slogan”
• Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration
• Geoff Boeing’s “Comparing US City Street Orientations”
• New York Times’s “U.S. House Election Results 2018”
• Pudding’s “Women’s Pockets are Inferior”
• Augmented reality on The Weather Channel
• RJ Andrews’s “Picturing the Great Migration”

Noteworthy Tools

• Vizzlo, Venngage, Infogram
• Data Illustrator, Lincoln, Charticulator
• Altair

Standout People, Companies and Studios

• Topi Tjukanov
• Elijah Meeks’s “3rd Wave Data Visualization”
• Lisa Charlotte Rost
• Neil Richards
• Kat Greenbrook
• The Pudding
• Valentina d’Efilippo

Conferences

• Aaron Williams at OpenVis
• Shan Carter at OpenVis
• Tapestry videos of talks

Books

• Andy Kriebel & Eva Murray, MakeoverMonday
• Mark Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps
• Sandra Rendgen, The Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard
• Catherine D’Ignazio & Lauren Klein, Data Feminism
• Scott Berinato, Good Charts Workbook: Tips, Tools, and Exercises for Making Better Data Visualizations
• Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec, Observe, Collect, Draw! A Visual Journal

Books Coming in 2019

• RJ Andrews, Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data
• Kieran Healy, Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction

Blogs

• Multiple Views: Visualization Research Explained
• Maarten Lambrechts: Xenographics
• Pew Research, Data Labs
• Flourish tool blog
• PolicyViz
• Jonathan’s card game

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Chapters

1. Welcome to Data Stories! (00:00:22)

2. Please consider supporting the show (00:00:56)

https://patreon.com/datastories

3. Welcome back to our annual year in review episode! (00:01:20)

4. Alli Torban (00:02:21)

https://dataviztoday.com/

5. Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic (00:03:11)

http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/podcast/

6. Jonathan Schwabish (00:03:41)

https://policyviz.com/podcast/the-policyviz-podcast/

7. Major trends in data viz in 2018 (00:04:15)

8. Work being shared more frequently, and the culture of data viz criticism (00:06:13)

9. Greater communication between academics and data viz practitioners (00:11:20)

10. Deeper self-awareness about the limitations of data -- maybe even too self-aware? (00:14:40)

11. More podcasts! And generally more opportunities to learn how to get started in data viz (00:17:41)

12. A few great new visualizations (00:18:50)

13. New data viz tools from 2018 (00:28:35)

14. Increase in automation in viz (00:36:44)

15. Greater presence of experts from cognitive science in the data viz world (00:38:09)

16. The intersection of AI and visualization (00:39:33)

17. Notable people, companies and studios (00:44:16)

18. Conferences (00:56:16)

19. Books published in 2018 (01:02:18)

20. Blogs (01:09:27)

21. What we missed in 2018 (01:21:18)

22. Hopes for the new year (01:23:26)

23. Last thoughts about the year (01:36:06)

24. Get in touch with us and support us on Patreon (01:38:36)

https://www.patreon.com/datastories