Podcast

Bonus Episode 2 – COVID

What do we need to do as statisticians in this crisis?
Why do we see hardly any people on the news explaining the numbers correctly?

I was asked about what we need to do to be more visible as a function? I talked about many problems in last week’s episode and that triggered some discussions about statisticians and leadership on LinkedIn.

Thus, today, I’m speaking about “Running on 2 legs – my call to action for statisticians to step-up in this COVID pandemic.” Here are some points I’m reflecting about:

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: