Alli Torban

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Author of Chart Spark 📊⚡️ Information Designer and Senior Data Literacy Advocate 🎙 host Data Viz Today podcast

📕 https://chartsparkbook.com

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It's book week at Nightingale! This whole week we'll be sharing reviews, author interviews, and book-inspired visualizations. To start this week off right, we're sharing a review by @emiliaruzicka.bsky.social on @allitorban.bsky.social's newest book, Chart Spark! nightingaledvs.com/review-chart...

Review: "Chart Spark" by Alli Torban - Nightingalenightingaledvs.com In Alli Torban’s new book, Chart Spark, she tackles this issue of perceived creativity block and shares her own creative journey.

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We’re excited to announce The Pudding’s 2024 Cohort, a 10-week summer fellowship for aspiring visual storytellers. 🧑‍🎓 Open to college/graduate-level students and recent grads 🗓️ June 18 – Sept 1 💰 $7,200 stipend 📝 More details at this link! pudding.cool/career/cohort/

Join Our 2024 Cohortpudding.cool We created a summer fellowship for aspiring visual storytellers to author a project on The Pudding

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Analysis and Anarchy, or: there's gold in them thar charts! The latest from CHARTOGRAPHY, with lessons for studying inspiration from @allitorban.bsky.social charts.substack.com/p/analysis-a...

Analysis and Anarchycharts.substack.com Or: there’s gold in them thar charts!

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Yet another book has arrived and it’s a massive congratulations to @allitorban.bsky.social, so happy to see her “Chart Spark” book come to life. All about harnessing creativity in the context of data viz, it’s packed with enjoyable drills and beneficial guidance 📊 www.amazon.com/Chart-Spark-...

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NEW! Season 4 Episode 9 of 'Explore Explain', a 📺🎧 series of long-form data visualisation conversations. In this episode I chat with @chloewhiteaker.bsky.social & @mariepastora.bsky.social about their joyous dataviz exploring Taylor Swift's billionaire status visualisingdata.com/2024/01/expl...

Explore Explain S4 E9: Chloe Whiteaker & Marie Patino - Visualising Datavisualisingdata.com Welcome to S4E9 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series about data visualisation design. In this episode I chat with Chloe Whiteaker and Marie Patino of Bloomberg News. We explore the...

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“You need to try something new to be someone new.” @allitorban.bsky.social

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NEW: Questions in Dataviz: How can you find the creative spark for dataviz? Book review #23 talks about finding creativity and reviews Chart Spark by @allitorban.bsky.social, also features Data Yarns from @danielegibney.bsky.social questionsindataviz.com/2024/01/06/h...

How can you find the creative spark for dataviz?questionsindataviz.com This post is an impressive piece of procrastination even for me, being over fourteen months in the making, starting from a podcast interview I gave with Alli Torban in November 2022, but I’ve been a...

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rejuvenating my creativity with @allitorban.bsky.social‘s CHART SPARK

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Chart Spark by @allitorban.bsky.social has given me a way to frame why I enjoy experimenting w/ TikTok. Making videos (for near-zero followers) are “mini-c” creative acts for me. (She cites work by Kaufman & Beghetto for the categories). Each animation is a fun low-stakes creative challenge #sciart

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Hey look! Hey look! My "Dispersion vs Disparity" research (with Cindy X Bearfield) made it into @albertocairo.bsky.social's new "Art of Insight" book. We snuck into @allitorban.bsky.social's inspiring chapter on "Making Data Friendly." I'm so proud to see equity-focused dataviz as a topic in print.

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I had a beautiful conversation about 'The Art of Insight' and life in general with @allitorban.bsky.social for her podcast, Dataviz today: dataviztoday.com

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