Given that custom client workshops are a core part of our business at storytelling with data, we spend a good amount of time interpreting other organizations’ data. We enjoy looking for good reasons to explore our own data, too. One finding that is curious is that there seems to be relatively little overlap between those who follow our work in different areas. Those who attend our public workshops tend to be surprised (and delighted) to learn that we have an active YouTube channel. Within our online SWD community, those who tackle the monthly challenge tend to be a different subset than those who solve exercises. Those who know us through our books (in particular, those teaching from them) aren’t always aware of supplemental resources like our chart guide and makeovers page.

Most relevant for you—reading these words right now—those who follow our blog often aren’t aware that we have a podcast.

This makes sense; people like to learn in different ways, which is why we do all of this. That said, it’s hard to read a blog post while you’re driving a car or walking your dog. In case you’d like to learn from storytelling with data in situations where your eyes or hands are busy but your ears are free, I thought I’d share some of our recent podcast episodes that you might enjoy. Scroll down to listen.

Episode #57 storytelling with YOU: Cole sits down with husband, Randy Knaflic, for a fun chat about her new book, storytelling with you: plan, create, and deliver a stellar presentation. They discuss why building capability and confidence presenting is especially important for those in technical roles, overcoming challenges communicating to mixed audiences, navigating the writing process, and more.

Episode #56 graph draft! As anyone who has ever participated in a fantasy league can tell you, the most fun part of the whole experience is drafting your team. We took that idea to heart, and imagined, “What if, instead of drafting professional athletes, we did a fantasy draft of chart and graph types?” The data storytellers at SWD and premium members of our online community recently did just that, taking part in a friendly competition to build themselves the strongest roster of methods for visualizing information.

Episode #55 functional aesthetics: How can we use beauty to convey meaning, and form to guide function, in our communications? In this episode of the SWD podcast, Dr. Vidya Setlur and Bridget Cogley explore these questions with data storyteller Mike Cisneros. In their upcoming book Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization, Vidya (the “academic”) and Bridget (the “practitioner”) explore the relationships among what we see, how we encode information, and what we mean.

Check out our podcast page for more!