Interview on Andy Kirk's Explore Explain

It was an honour to be featured in Andy Kirk's series "Explore Explain". Together with Scientific American's art director Jen Christiansen, we tell the story how our visualization project of word trends in the rich 175 year history of the magazine came about.

December 15, 2020

Explore Explain · Interview

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