Sep 16, 2026 · 23 min · 15 segments
This week I kick off a new series on the show: My Favorite Graphs. I’m going to walk through the projects that shaped how I think about data visualization, data communication, and data storytelling…
John SchwabischHost
Now, this is a combination of data work from the Guardian team with a number of their journalists, with the development done by Nadi Bremer and Shirley Wu.
And so what happened in this project is one of the first projects, at least that I can recall, that really did, I think, a superb version of combining journalism video with the people who are the subject of the news story with data visualization.
And I'm going to start at the top here, but I'm really going to focus down as I get further down to the visualization that really is the one that sticks in my head that I remember.
Now, this is a combination of data work from the Guardian team with a number of their journalists, with the development done by Nadi Bremer and Shirley Wu.
And so what happened in this project is one of the first projects, at least that I can recall, that really did, I think, a superb version of combining journalism video with the people who are the subject of the news story with data visualization.
And I'm going to start at the top here, but I'm really going to focus down as I get further down to the visualization that really is the one that sticks in my head that I remember.
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