Learning data viz from the best: the Financial Times

I’ve wandered around the data viz community for a while now, and it tends to be same set of news agencies, organisations, and individuals that are shared and discussed repeatedly for their ingenuity, creativity, or just excellent execution. Some of my sources of inspiration are (among others), Axios (with for example Will Chase), the New York Times, and the (now defunct) FiveThirtyEight. As for individuals, I’ve always looked up to Cédric Scherer for his ability to make data viz accessible for newcomers, he also runs the commmunity event 30DayChartChallenge which is an excellent source of inspiration from many data viz enthusiasts. And Nadieh Bremer for her incredible creativity and artistic data viz work, also for her book Data Sketches she wrote together with Shirley Wu, absolutely gorgeous data visualization that communicates a message very clearly. There’s also the Data Vizualization Society which aims to promote data viz practices and whose conference I still want to visit some day.