Episode Description
Amanda Shendruk is an award-winning visual journalist who's spent 15 years making charts for the Washington Post, Quartz and The Guardian, and now writes the data newsletter Not Ship. Francis asks her to teach him the craft, how she decides what to label, and why she still doesn't trust AI with a chart.
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Amanda Shendruk
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Timestamps
00:00 Introducing Amanda Shendruk
01:52 Making your graphics legible at a glance
10:18 Universal rules of data visualization
18:10 Finding trustworthy data sources
27:08 Tools for research and data viz
32:24 Good and bad data visualization
37:48 The real world effect of good data journalism
39:55 Starting a newsletter
47:16 The future of Not Ship