Course details
Follow along with expert Bill Shander in this series exploring key themes in data visualization, data storytelling, and information design. Each episode is broken into two segments: a short lesson and a listening session where Bill interviews data storytelling and visualization experts about the episode theme. These conversations reveal the creative process, explore techniques and technologies used by working professionals, and illuminate some of the common challenges they face. This series is perfect for anyone interested in how information is presented to the mass market, including professionals in all levels of analytics, data science, and communications.

Course Transcript
- Data visualization is breaking the bounds of the printed page and the screen in many different ways. People are making data visualization objects using 3D printers and even Play-Doh. They're mapping their runs and using that data to spell out marriage proposals. Swedish academic Hans Rosling famously used objects like income inequality and population growth. The tangibility of real-world objects is very powerful. Humans can relate to objects we can touch and hold in a way that we can't quite relate to in the subtle abstractions of pencil marks on paper or pixels on a screen. Humans value physical objects for a host of reasons. For one, there's a difference in how we perceive things that we own as opposed to things that we may have access to. So a physical book sits on my shelf. I truly own it, whereas an E-book is something I can use, but it doesn't really feel like it's mine. It feels like I'm just sort of renting it. I deal a lot with creating visualizations in a virtual space.