USAFacts Midterms Map

The latest episode of the Data Journalism Podcast is out today, with an interview with Amanda Cox — Head of Special Data Projects at USAFacts, an unrivaled source of public data. She’s also an established data journalist and former editor of the NYT’s Upshot data journalism section.

As the winner of multiple awards, she’s been referred to as the “Michael Phelps of infographics“.

Amanda chats with Simon and Alberto about her career, how she feels about treemaps and how to put data out into the world.

The music this week, made with TwoTone, is the S&P 500 index over time.

Listen to the episode here.

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