Why are habits/rituals important to your creative practice and what are some examples? Duncan Geere, Will Chase, and I share what's been most impactful to our dataviz practice!

Shownotes / watch video: https://blog.elevatedataviz.com/the-elevate-dataviz-show-6

RJ Andrew's creative rituals infographic: https://infowetrust.com/project/routines

How do you approach creativity for personal projects vs business intelligence? That's our big creativity question today for Neil Richards.

Neil Richards is the author of the new book Questions in Dataviz, Lead Business Intelligence Analyst at JLL, and four-time Tableau Visionary.

Show notes: https://dataviztoday.com/shownotes/81

We're exploring creativity in information design from the perspective of amazingly creative people in the field! Let's hear how Manuel Canales, the graphics assignment editor at the Washington Post and previously the senior graphics editor at National Geographic, gets the most out of his creativity. How he approaches the pressure of a new project has changed the way I work! Let's go…

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Save your seat in the virtual workshop! (50% off promo code expires Sept 15)

September 22, 2022 at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Increase your work's memorability and clarity by learning how to incorporate visual metaphors into your information communication!

Agenda:

• Presentation to understand what visual metaphor is, its benefits, when it's effective, and my process for creating them + lots of examples (30 min)
• Live brainstorming where I apply my process to an attendee's project. Watch me work or bring your own project to work through the prompts in real-time (30 min)
• Q&A to ask any question you have about the process and get feedback on your ideas (30 min)
• Unlimited email follow-up for 1-week after the workshop to ask any lingering questions or get individualized feedback on your ideas
• Recording + printable worksheet will be sent out afterward!

Who's this workshop for?

Anyone who communicates information—analyst, journalist, designer. You don't need to know a specific software, tool, or have drawing skills! Seats are limited.

Questions?

Email me: [email protected]

We're exploring creativity in information design from the perspective of amazingly creative people in the field! Let's hear how Marcelo Duhalde, the Associate Creative Director at the South China Morning Post, approaches creativity. We dive into how he defines creativity, what his process is like, what kills his creativity, and more!

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We're exploring creativity in information design from the perspective of amazingly creative people in the field! Let's hear how Duncan Geere approaches creativity. We dive into how he defines creativity, how he gets the most out of his creativity, and more!

Duncan Geere is an information designer living in Sweden who works with graphics, words, and sound. He's one-half of the loud numbers, data sonification podcast and studio. And one-quarter of the Elevate data viz learning community. Duncan is always surprising me with his creative data sonification experiments, and he's also a really deep thinker. So I knew he'd have some interesting answers to my questions about creativity and he did not disappoint!

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Volunteer to be a Beta reader for my new book!

We're exploring creativity in information design from the perspective of amazingly creative people in the field! If it's not a magical process, then what is it? Let's hear how Mesa Schumacher approaches creativity.

Mesa Schumacher is a science artist currently living in Fiji who specializes in communicating complex ideas through illustration, infographics, and animation. Mesa's work can be found in National Geographic and Scientific American, on signage at the National Zoo, in academia, and on giant puzzles!

We dive into how she defines creativity, what her routines are, what kills her creativity, how she presents creative ideas to clients…and more!

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Volunteer to be a Beta reader for my creativity book!

We're exploring creativity in information design from the perspective of amazingly creative people in the field! If it's not a magical process, then what is it? Let's hear how Andy Kirk approaches creativity. We dive into how he defines creativity, what his routines are, what kills his creativity, how he presents creative ideas to clients, where he finds inspiration…and more!

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Volunteer to be a Beta reader for my creativity book!

Today, I'm launching a mini-series all about creativity in information design. If you're like me and came from a data background, communicating information in creative ways can feel a bit like a magical process, so over this series, I'll invite creative information designers and dive into their process: What are their routines, what kills their creativity, how do they present creative ideas to others…and more!

Let's hear how Stefanie Posavec approaches creativity in information design…

Show notes: https://dataviztoday.com/shownotes/75

Stefanie Posavec's work

Sign up to be a Beta reader for my new book on creativity in information communication!

Today, we have Danielle Alberti on the show to share a behind-the-scenes look at how to become and be a data journalist! She's the editor of the data visualization team at Axios and shares:

• What's a typical day as a data journalist
• Which skills are important
• What she looks for in a resume and portfolio when hiring for a data journalist position
• What she would do differently if she were starting her data journalist career over again

This interview with Danielle was the special opening segment to the Elevate Learning Community conference — you can watch the whole conference with thoughtful talks about information design here: https://elevatedataviz.com/live

Full shownotes: https://dataviztoday.com/shownotes/74