Data Visualization, Creative Work, and Setting Boundaries with AI

Data visualization creator Shirley Wu joins the host to discuss how she develops custom storytelling experiences, decides when a project is ready to launch, and adapts her practice as AI tools spread. Their conversation also considers how AI may affect creative work, social connection, and the skills people choose to preserve.

- Project craft: perfectionism, audience reception, and the value of expertise beyond time spent
- AI and creativity: ethical use, changes to art-making, cognitive offloading, and protecting personally meaningful work
- Work and community: custom visualization services, human connection, decentralized technology, and finding a professional niche

For designers, data practitioners, and anyone considering how AI fits into daily work, this discussion offers examples and perspectives to consider. Viewers can reflect on which tasks they want AI to support, where they want to retain their own effort, and which strengths recur in their past work.