XKCD - Is There Anyone That's Inspired You?

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Edward Tuft: I'm going to give a what at first will seem like a very normy answer which is our good friend Edward Tuft. When I was at Adobe they paid for me to go to one of the seminars which I would you know 80% of your audience and first on through some more experience so you go. After lunch he went into this thing about how to make chart your charts for PowerPoint good and I just like you know I’m not staying for that and I left in his only years later. He says it's great there are a lot of retired professors who really love talking about that visual but also have fun doing it. The XKCD starts taking

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.