What are the ingredients of a successful personal project? How do you even know what topic to make your personal project about? What constraints make for a successful personal project? In this episode, data visualization designers Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu share insights they learned from completing a year-long collaboration that ended with a new book called Data Sketches!

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61: 3 Insights From a Personal Project That Blew Up — Featuring Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu

You want to create effective data visualizations. That’s hard work. There are so many decisions to make, like chart type, annotations, and color! Will this podcast help? Host and fellow data viz designer Alli Torban is in the trenches with you. She shares the latest tools and methods that she’s discovered while interviewing top designers. This podcast isn’t for you if you like to hear about high-level industry trends. But if you’re an analyst, journalist, or designer who wants to hone your skills with specific tactics, then this show could be just what you need.

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