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Information is Beautiful: an interview with David McCandless

Information is Beautiful dataviz: potential tax revenue from legalising drugs in the UK

One of the most successful published data journalists in the world today, David McCandless has a new book out: Beautiful News.

His work is innovative, newsy, current and incredibly popular with readers — but sometimes controversial with what he calls the “chart police”. 

Alberto and Simon chat with David about why he gets such Marmite-type reactions to his work, how Hans Rosling opened our eyes to the power of data visualisation and the nature of beauty.

The music for today’s episode is world GDP, made with TwoTone, which turns numbers into tunes.

Listen to the episode here >>

About Simon Rogers

Data journalist, writer, speaker. Author of 'Facts are Sacred', from Faber & Faber and a range of infographics for children books from Candlewick. Edited and launched the Guardian Datablog. Now works for Google in California as Data Editor and is Director of the Sigma awards for data journalism.

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Data journalist, writer, speaker. Author of 'Facts are Sacred', published by Faber & Faber and a new range of infographics for children books from Candlewick. Data editor at Google, California. Formerly at Twitter, San Francisco. Created the Guardian Datablog. All opinions on this site are mine, not my employers'. Read more >>

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