Is There a Gray Zone?

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I feel in my world that I work in, I'm often trying to convince people, even data people, about the importance of how you visualize certain graphics. And I think it's a space that more people need to occupy. For people who do this stuff natively, there's a lot of opportunities in media if you are able to bring to it a sensibility of how data can be visualized. Do you have a set of tools that you're going to or does it, I mean, you must.

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.