Innovation

Interview with Alberto Cairo

The Corona Virus being discussed across the world, with all the visualizations there, it is timely that I am speaking with Alberto Cairo. He is a visualization guru and has written the book “How Charts Lie”. This book helps you as a statistician to understand various problems about charts, but more importantly, it helps you to educate your business partners that are not statisticians.

We also discuss the following points:

Visualization Episode 2

We all know how to specify a table and our processes support this. However, designing an awesome data visualization does not work this way. Our approach to table specification does not work?

In this second episode. I talk about how you can create a great visualization. Here are the following important tips I’m speaking about:

Episode 1

Why is visualization so important?
How do you determine the goal of visualization?
What is the big difference between explanatory visualization and exploratory visualization?

In today’s episode, I review the different things you need to consider in creating an effective data visualization when presenting, which is the following:

Interview with Deborah Ashby

• Who is Florence Nightingale, and what is impressive about her?
• Why would it be interesting to talk about her at the upcoming PSI conference?
• She’s famous for her visualization. What could statisticians today learn from her about visualization?

Despite her having a weak position in society at the time – being a nurse and a woman– she still was very influential and achieved a lot. Many statisticians feel like they are not part of key decisions and don’t have the impact they could have. What can we learn from her to be more influential?

Listen to this episode and learn more!

Interview with Rachel Phillips and Mark Baillie

• Do you effectively communicate complex data?
• How can visualization help you when you aree
  • analyzing data?
  • reporting data?
• What initiatives and groups work on this topic and will help you?

In today’s episode, we talk about the advantages of using visualizations when analyzing and communicating data. We also discuss the following points: