New Season, New Format: Live Shows, Accessibility, and My Favorite Dataviz

on this show in this very lucky season 13. i've got a lot of things set up i took a break for a couple of months over the summer to not do any interviews and not create any content for the podcast so that was a nice break but now that it's late august and getting into september i am doing a lot of interviews getting things set up for you because i've got a lot of great content to bring your way um we're going to be talking about new books on this season of the show.

I've got new projects that people are preparing and publishing to share with you.

I've got folks doing really cool projects and work in the social media space when it comes to communicating data and data visualization stories.

in the ways that people actually are consuming media these days.

I'm sure, of course, we'll be talking about AI.

You can't really escape it.

I'm not turning this into an AI show, so we're not going to spend all of our time focusing on AI, but I'm sure it's going to come up because it's obviously a big part of the data visualization field right now.

We're also going to talk a lot about accessibility.

The first full episode of the show with a very, very special guest focuses primarily on accessibility.

And you're going to hear a lot of, I think, practical strategies and approaches that you can use to make your online content more accessible for people who have different types of impairments, all the way from vision to physical to intellectual or cognitive impairments.

I'm also going to introduce a new kind of series in the podcast.

So as you may know, I tend to release episodes every other week, usually on a Wednesday morning.

That has been my cadence.

For the next few months, I'm going to release an episode every week.

But in those intervening episodes, it's just going to be me.

And I'm trying a new thing where I'm going to be talking about some of my favorite data visualizations, some of my favorite graphs that have inspired me that are in my long-term memory bank, the visualizations that I go back to, that I used to teach, that I rely on to think about how to communicate and engage people in very different ways.

So these aren't gonna be necessarily visualizations from 2025 or 2026, but we're gonna be going back in time a little bit.

And you're going to hear some other voices on those episodes.

But for the most part, those will be relatively shorter episodes.

Just me talking through some of my favorite graphs over the last 10 or 15 years that I have used in my work, in my writing and in my teaching.

So that's a new part of the program that you'll hear.

And we'll see how long I can keep that up, how long I can keep publishing episodes every week.

But hopefully you'll find some value in that to see and hear more.

how I think about data visualization and how my evolution in working in this field has changed over the last 15 years or so.