Videocast with Nigel Holmes, author of Joyful Infographics, a new book in the AK Peter Visualization Series from Routledge/CRC. Conversation hosted by series co-editors Alberto Cairo and Tamara Munzner.
www.routledge.com/Joyful-Info...
Timestamps:
00:00 Introductions
01:47 How this book came about
05:57 Tamara on warming up
06:35 Alberto on first meeting Nigel and why he encouraged him to write the book
08:00 Alberto on learning styles
10:00 Tamara on learning from examples and finding a voice
10:43 Alberto on Tamara's book
11:08 How Nigel wrote the book (handwriting, InDesign, design choices, revision, Alberto's rules)
16:43 Alberto on InDesign
17:55 What can reader's take from this book?
20:02 Non-specialists
20:33 Graphics that went wrong!
21:38 Alberto on what defines "Visualization"
22:48 Knowing your audience
24:40 Small datasets
26:15 On GPT and AI for dataviz
27:08 Creating things by hand and "flow"
30:13 Working slowly and "French curves"
32:53 Final thoughts (guests not audiences)