Timothy Stanley is a senior analyst at the Washington Post. He has spent 45% of his life making sure people understand that data and numbers as relates to votes cast are not correlation with existence of voter fraud. "I've got the curse of knowledge I've been buried in the data," he says, but also big fan of scatter plots.
As analysts, we conduct analysis on behalf of the business to (hopefully) provide them with clear and objective information to help with making decisions. We use visualizations of data and, when we're really hitting our stride, we even tell data stories. So, how does that compare to mainstream journalism and the stories they tell, especially when there is data that can be visualized in support of the story or the analysis? There could be no better guest than Philip Bump, long-time columnist for The Washington Post, author of the How to Read This Chart weekly newsletter, and author of a soon-to-be-published book about the baby boom generation! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.