Data Stories

Duncan is the CEO of Flourish, a popular data visualization tool to help people create storytelling visualizations from data. Duncan founded Flourish together with Robin Houston in 2016 and since then they made a lot of progress and acquired a large user base. It’s always great to hear about successful data visualization companies!

On the show Duncan describes what Flourish is, how it works and how it differs from other data visualization tools. We also talk about the unique playback option Flourish has and the “talkies” feature, which introduces audio and sound elements to add to a visualization. Finally, we also talk about their business model and future trajectories.

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Enjoy the show!

Links:

• Flourish
• Shipmap.org — Visualization of Global Cargo Ships by Kiln
• Carbonmap.org
• Why data visualization needs a play button
• Talkie – Talkies explained

• Datawrapper with Lisa C. Rost and Gregor Aisch
• A New Generation of DataViz Tools