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Be a Better Presenter with Andrea Pacini

Andrea Pacini is the author of the best-selling book Confident Presenter, a presentation coach and Head of Ideas on Stage UK. He specializes in working with business owners, leaders and their teams who want to become more confident presenters. Since 2010 Ideas on Stage has worked with thousands of clients around the world, including organizations like Microsoft, Spotify, eBay, The World Bank and over 500 TEDx speakers. Andrea is on a mission to stop great ideas from failing just because of the way they are presented. His vision is to help hundreds of thousands of business leaders inspire their audiences, increase their influence, and make a positive impact in the world. Check out more links, notes, transcript, and more at the PolicyViz website. Sponsor: Nom Nom Nom Nom delivers fresh food made with whole ingredients, backed by veterinary science. And science tells us that dog health starts in the bowl so improving their diet is one of the best ways to help them live a long, happy life. All you have to do is order, pour and serve. Try Nom Nom today, go to Nom Nom and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping with the code policyviz.

Distorted Maps and Storytelling with Tomas Pueyo

Tomas Pueyo is the author of Uncharted Territories, a newsletter where he tries to deeply understand how the world works to understand where it's going and nudge it in the right direction. He became world viral with his COVID articles, notably The Hammer and the Dance. He has 75,000 readers, and 300,000 on Twitter. Before Uncharted Territories, he has worked in tech companies in Silicon Valley for 15 years. Sponsor: Maryland Institute College of Art MICA’s Master of Professional Studies degrees offer intensive, online education designed to develop both creative and professional skills. Now accepting applications for the spring, summer, and fall semesters. Check out more links, notes, transcript, and more at the PolicyViz website.

Doing Data Stuff for Money with Moxy Analytics co-founder Serena Roberts

Running your own data literacy and data consulting shop is no easy task. And helping customers not only build better visualizations and dashboards, but helping them create a better (or new) data culture is even harder. But Serena Roberts and her team at Moxy Analytics has been fighting that good fight for a few years now. Serena and I talk about what Moxy is up to, how to build better data teams, getting over imposter syndrome, and much, much more.Sponsor: Maryland Institute College of Art MICA’s Master of Professional Studies degrees offer intensive, online education designed to develop both creative and professional skills. Now accepting applications for the spring, summer, and fall semesters. Check out more links, notes, transcript, and more at the PolicyViz website.

Data Physicalization with the 'Making with Data' author team

Creating data visualizations in the physical world is not a new phenomenon. Humans have been drawing on walls, tallying money and crops, and carving on stone tablets for thousands of years. Today, though the practice of data visualization is largely done in the digital world, there is an exciting area of working in the physical space--the real world, as it were--to create, share, and communicate data and information. That brings us to the exciting new book, Making with Data, that provides a snapshot of the diverse practices contemporary creators are using to produce objects, spaces, and experiences imbued with data. In this week's episode of the podcast, I chat with the editors of the book to get their take on this exciting field.Sponsor: Nom Nom Nom Nom delivers fresh food made with whole ingredients, backed by veterinary science. And science tells us that dog health starts in the bowl so improving their diet is one of the best ways to help them live a long, happy life. All you have to do is order, pour and serve. Try Nom Nom today, go to Nom Nom and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping with the code policyviz. Check out more links, notes, transcript, and more at the PolicyViz website.

Maureen Stone tells you all about color in data visualization

Welcome back to a whole new season of the PolicyViz Podcast! I'm excited to bring you a whole new exciting slate of guests this year covering a huge array of data visualization and data communication strategies, technologies, and techniques. Maureen Stone (Tableau Research) has been involved with Tableau since 2004, when she was asked to design the initial data colors for Tableau 1.5. She joined the company in late 2011 and became a founding member of the Research Team in 2012. As a member of Tableau Research, she continued her work on optimizing the use of color in visualization. She served as research director (2017-2021), and has recently retired (June, 2022). While best known for her expertise in digital color, she has a broad experience in information visualization, interactive graphics and user interface design. She is a member of the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy and the author of A Field Guide to Digital Color.Sponsor: Nom Nom Nom Nom delivers fresh food made with whole ingredients, backed by veterinary science. And science tells us that dog health starts in the bowl so improving their diet is one of the best ways to help them live a long, happy life. All you have to do is order, pour and serve. Try Nom Nom today, go to Nom Nom and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping with the code policyviz. Check out more links, notes, transcript, and more at the PolicyViz website.

Bringing Joy to Your Data Work with Nigel Holmes

Nigel Holmes is a British/American graphic designer, author, and theorist, who focuses on information graphics and information design. Graduating from Royal College of Art in London in 1966, Holmes ran his own successful graphic design practice in England. From 1966 to 1977, he worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer for clients such as British Broadcasting Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and Island Records. His work appeared in New Scientist, Radio Times, The Observer, Daily Telegraph, and The Times. In 1977, art director Walter Bernard hired him to work in the map and chart department of Time magazine, where Holmes later became graphics director. After a sabbatical he started his own company, which has explained things to and for a wide variety of clients, including Apple, Fortune, Nike, The Smithsonian Institution, Sony, United Healthcare, US Airways, and Visa. See links, notes, transcript and more at the PolicyViz website.

Building the BBC's Great British Class Calculator with Joe Sharpe and Mike Orwell

Joe Sharpe has been founder and creative director at Applied Works since 2005, a design studio using data visualisation, user-centred design and storytelling to create digital tools and products that drive positive change. Joe also teaches on the BA Graphic Design degree at Kingston School of Art, running an elective pathway for second and third year students that explores how emerging technology is transforming the way we communicate, work, play and consume. Mike Orwell is a digital executive producer, filmmaker and consultant. Between 2009 & 2018, he was a producer and commissioning editor at the BBC and since then has worked with award-winning digital production studios like Unit9, Marshmallow Laser Feast and Applied Works to explore new storytelling methods. At the BBC, he pioneered various mass-audience, data-driven storytelling & branching narrative projects , including the Great British Class Calculator and the BBC Lab UK platform. His boutique film-making collective Elastic Semantic specialises in telling research-driven science & engineering stories for clients such as Arup. See links, notes, transcript and more at the PolicyViz website.

Akkio CEO Jonathon Reilly on Data and AI

Jonathon Reilly is an innovative and results-driven executive with over 20 years of experience in product management, business development, and operations. As the Co-Founder and COO of Akkio, he has helped create an easy-to-use AI platform that empowers users to build and deploy AI solutions to data problems in minutes. Prior to founding Akkio, Jonathon served as the VP of Product & Marketing at Markforged, where he played a critical role in the company's growth and success. With a strong background in the tech industry, Jonathon held various leadership positions at Sonos, Inc., including Leader of the Music Player Product Management Team, Global Channel Development, and Senior Product Manager. He began his career at Sony Electronics, where he contributed significantly to the development of a wide range of consumer products as a product manager and electrical engineer. Jonathon holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business and a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Gonzaga University.See links, notes, transcript more at the PolicyViz website. Episode Notes Jonathon | Medium | Twitter Akkio How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff and Irving Geis Data at Urban: How We Used Machine Learning to Predict Neighborhood Change autoMLRelated Episodes Episode #227 with Max Kuhn Episode #225 with Julia Silge Episode #227 with Claire McKay Bowen Episode #227 with Steve Franconeri and Jen Christiansen

Historical Data Visualization with authors Georges Hattab and Susan Schulten

On this week's episode of the PolicyViz podcast, I chat with Susan Schulten and Georges Hattab, authors of the new books on dataviz luminaries Emma Willard and Etienne-Jules Marey. We talk about these two creators and their impacts on the data visualization field today. Susan Schulten is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Denver, where she has taught since 1996. Georges Hattab is the Visualization Group Leader at the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research at the Robert Koch Institute since 2022.

How to collect, analyze, & visualize hockey data with Micah McCurdy

Micah is a mathematician who likes to use pictures to understand things. He runs a website, hockeyviz.com, where he stores pictures about hockey. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife and his two children.Episode Notes Micah | Twitter | Site Bubble physics Python Beautiful Soup svgwrite Matplotlib Line-width illusionRelated Episodes Episode #238: Jeremy Ney Episode #237: Tristan Gullevin Episode #194: Charlie Smart iTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeSponsor Use my special link (

Jeremy Ney Visualizes American Inequality

Jeremy is the author of American Inequality, a biweekly newsletter that uses data visualization to highlight U.S. inequality topics and to drive change in communities. His work has been published in TIME, Bloomberg, and the LA Times. He was a dual-degree masters student at MIT Sloan and the Harvard Kennedy School and was formerly a macro policy strategist at the Federal Reserve. He now works at Google and lives in Brooklyn.Episode Notes Jeremy on Twitter | Op-ed in Time American Inequality newsletter: americaninequality.substack.com Federal Reserve Bank of New York Food Deserts and Inequality Technology and Disability: The Relationship Between Broadband Access and Disability Insurance Awards Some coverage of the map: * American Inequality * Paul Krugman * David Wallace-Wells * LA TimesRelated Episodes Episode #228: Ethan Mollick Episode #224: Pieta Blakely and Eli Holder Episode #191: Sarah Williams iTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneIn

New Tableau add-ins from Tristan Guillevin

Tristan is a Data Visualization Freelancer who likes to combine different techniques to find the best way to represent data. He regularly creates tools and videos to help people build their next projects or level up their skills. Tristan is the 2017 Iron Viz Champion, and current Tableau Visionary.Episode Notes Tristan | Web | Twitter | YouTube Figma Observable PowerBI Svelte Tableau Tableau PublicRelated Episodes Episode #234: Kirk Munroe Episode #230: Vidya Setlur and Bridget Cogley Episode #211: Jock D. Mackinlay Episode #209: The Flerlage Twins iTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz Newsletter

Gabrielle Ione Hickmon's How You Play Spades Is How You Live Life project

Gabrielle Ione Hickmon (b. 1994) is a Black woman from a middle place—Ypsilanti, MI. Her lab is a place where clay and words meet. She is interested in body memory, waiting rooms, layovers, circles, Black imaginaries, and ocular proof. Her work includes essays, ethnographic research, and coil-built ceramics. She won Bronze in the Leisure, Games, & Sport category of the 2022 Information is Beautiful Awards and First Honorable Mention in the 2022 NYU American Journalism Online Awards for her ethnographic research project, How You Play Spades is How You Play Life: Spades in the African American Community. Her writing has appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, The Baffler, The Pudding, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She attended Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. She has been in residence at Pocoapoco, Mas Palou, and will soon be in residence at Dairy Hollow, Mudhouse, and Haystack. Gabrielle is currently at work on The Boyne City Project, a series of vessels chronicl…

Building Science Graphics with Jen Christiansen

Jen Christiansen is the author of Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagrams and Visualizations (CRC Press) and senior graphics editor at Scientific American, where she art directs and produces illustrated explanatory diagrams and data visualizations.Episode Notes Jen | Web | Book | Book site Scientific American iTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeSponsor Use my special link (https://zen.ai/policyviz12) to save 12% at blendjet.com. The discount will be applied at checkout!New Ways to Support the Show! With more than 200 guests and eight seasons of episodes, the PolicyViz Podcast is one of the longest-running data visualization podcasts around. You can support the show by downloading and listening, following the work of my guests, and sharing the show with your networks. I’m grateful to everyone who listens and supports the show, and now I’m offering new exciting ways for you to support the show fin…

Kirk Munroe Shows You How to Model Data in Tableau

Kirk Munroe is a business analytics and performance management expert. He has held leadership roles in product management, marketing, sales enablement, and customer success in analytics software companies including, Cognos, IBM, Kinaxis, Tableau, and Salesforce. Kirk has a passion for coaching and mentoring people to make better decisions through storytelling with data. He is currently one of the two owners and principal consultants at Paint with Data, a visual analytics consulting firm. Kirk lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.Episode Notes Kirk | Web | Twitter Book: Data Modeling with Tableau: A practical guide to building data models using Tableau Prep and Tableau Desktop Kirk Munroe: 4 Common Tableau Data Model Problems…and How to Fix ThemRelated Episodes iTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeSponsor Are you ready to earn extra income from sharing your expert opinion? Head over to userinterviews.com/hello to sign up and participate today!Ne…

Public Art and Data Intersect with Ellie Balk

Ellie Balk is an artist obsessed with color, pattern, data and mathematics. She creates large scale data visualization public artworks using paint, glass, sound and most recently ceramics. Community engagement and interaction is at the core of her work. Ellie lives in Brooklyn, while working internationally. Her public artwork can be experienced across the United State, extensively throughout New York City and St. Louis, Missouri and Internationally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mae Rim, Thailand in Saint Louis, Senegal and Marrakech, Morocco. Ellie has worked with High schools students across the United States in creating public art that visualizes mathematics and her ideas have been adapted for use in elementary and high school mathematics curriculum. Her work developed with her teaching partner Tricia Stanley (Brooklyn) in Visualizing Mathematics has been published nationally and internationally through the Bridges Conference (Sweden) and the National Council of Teachers of Ma…

Designing Greta Thunberg's new book with Stefanie Posavec and Sonja Kuijpers

Stefanie Posavec is a designer, artist, and author whose practice focuses on finding new, experimental approaches to communicating data and information. This work has been exhibited internationally at major galleries including the V&A, the Design Museum, Somerset House, and the Wellcome Collection (London), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and MoMA (New York). Her work is also in the permanent collection of MoMA. Besides her new book with Miriam, she has also co-authored two books that emphasise a more personal approach to data: Dear Data and the journal Observe, Collect, Draw! Sonja Kuijpers runs STUDIO TERP, her one-woman data illustration studio based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. She designs (data-)visualisations for a diversity of clients such as Scientific American, Philips, as well as small institutions, companies, and publishers. Recently the Climate Book by Greta Thunberg was published, for which Sonja (re-)designed the graphs. Experimenting with shapes and styles, she also desig…

Lilach Manheim Laurio Shows Us How to do a Better Job Critiquing Data Visualizations

Lilach Manheim Laurio leads the Data Experience Center of Excellence at Visa, where she helps data practitioners across the company to elevate the quality of their data products, and improve their skills in data visualization and data experience design. Lilach’s data visualization work blends together a background in art history, library science, and human-centered information design, along with a passion for visual metaphor and pun. Lilach has served as a Tableau Zen master (2018-2019), Tableau Public featured author, and co-organizer of her local Tableau user group chapter. She has contributed as guest author to the Tableau blog and the Nightingale journal, writing about design and user experience in data visualization. She has also spoken on topics ranging from visual metaphor to dataviz critique at Tableau conferences and user groups across the U.S. Lilach holds a Bachelor degree in Art History and a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS).Episode Notes Lilach | Web |…

Vidya Setlur and Bridget Cogley discuss their new book Functional Aesthetics

Vidya Setlur is the director of Tableau Research. She leads an interdisciplinary team of research scientists in areas including data visualization, multimodal interaction, statistics, applied ML, and NLP. She earned her doctorate in Computer Graphics in 2005 at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Tableau, she worked as a principal research scientist at the Nokia Research Center for seven years. Her personal research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing and computer graphics to better understand data semantics and user intent to inform the meaningful visual depiction of data. Interpreter turned analyst, Bridget Cogley brings an interdisciplinary approach to data analytics. As Chief Visualization Officer at Versalytix, her role uplifts data visualization within the org and helps shape the vision. Her dynamic, engaging presentation style is paired with thought-provoking content, including ethics and data visualization linguistics. She has a deep interest…

Artist & Designer Edith Young Talks About Her New Book on Color

Edith Young is an artist, designer, and writer from New York. Princeton Architectural Press published her first book, Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture Through Color Palettes, in 2021. This is the final podcast episode of 2022! I hope you have a wonderful, safe, and healthy holiday season. I look forward to good things coming in 2023!Episode Notes Edith’s work: www.edith.nyc Edith’s palette prints: www.edithyoung.com Book: Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture Through Color Palettes PolicyViz blog post on colorRelated Episodes Episode #203: Alli Torban Episode #226: Abby Covert iTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeSponsor Partnerhero: to waive set up fees, go to http://partnerhero.com/policyviz and mention “PolicyViz” during onboarding!New Ways to Support the Show! With more than 200 guests and eight seasons of episodes, the PolicyViz Podcast is one of the longest-running data visualization po…

AI, Data Tools, and More with Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick is an Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship. He is also the author of The Unicorn’s Shadow: Combating the Dangerous Myths that Hold Back Startups, Founders, and Investors. His papers have been published in top management journals and have won multiple awards. His work on crowdfunding is the most cited article in management published in the last seven years. Prior to his time in academia, Ethan co-founded a startup company, and he currently advises a number of startups and organizations. As the Academic Director and cofounder of Wharton Interactive, he works to transform entrepreneurship education using games and simulations. He has long had interest in using games for teaching, and he co-authored a book on the intersection between video games and business that was named one of the American Library Association’s top 10 business books of the year. He has built numerous t…

Max Kuhn Shows You How to Model Data in R

Max Kuhn is a software engineer at RStudio. He is currently working on improving R’s modeling capabilities and maintains about 30 packages, including caret. He was a Senior Director of Nonclinical Statistics at Pfizer Global R&D in Connecticut. He was applying models in the pharmaceutical and diagnostic industries for over 18 years. Max has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics. He, and Kjell Johnson, wrote the book Applied Predictive Modeling, which won the Ziegel award from the American Statistical Association, which recognizes the best book reviewed in Technometrics in 2015. Their second book, Feature Engineering and Selection, was published in 2019 and his book with Julia Silge, Tidy Models with R, was published in 2022.Episode Notes Website at RStudio: https://www.rstudio.com/authors/max-kuhn/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/topepos Github: https://github.com/topepo R Packages: autoML caret Quarto RMarkdown tidymodels tidyverse Books from Max: Tidy Modeling with R: A Framework for Modeling…

Learn How to Draw with Abby Covert

Abby Covert is an information architect, writer and community organizer with two decades of experience helping people make sense of messes. In addition to being an active mentor to those new to sensemaking, she has also served the design community as President of the Information Architecture Institute, co-chair of Information Architecture Summit, and Executive Producer of the I.D.E.A Conference. Abby is a founding faculty member of School of Visual Arts’ Products of Design graduate program. She also managed the team that helped Rosenfeld Media to start both the Design Operations Summit and Advancing Research Conference. Her most proud achievement is having come up with the idea for World Information Architecture Day, bringing accessibly priced education to thousands in their local communities annually. In addition to running events, you may have seen her presenting her work on stage at: Blend, Business to Buttons, Confab, Creative Mornings, Designing for Digital, EdUI, EMACTL,…

Visualize Qualitative Data with Julia Silge

Julia Silge is a data scientist and software engineer at RStudio PBC where she works on open source modeling tools. She is an author, an international keynote speaker, and a real-world practitioner focusing on data analysis and machine learning. Julia loves text analysis, making beautiful charts, and communicating about technical topics with diverse audiences.xEpisode Notes https://juliasilge.com/ https://www.tidymodels.org/ https://www.tmwr.org/ https://smltar.com/ https://vetiver.rstudio.com/Related Episodes Episode #207: Tom Mock Episode #201: Leland Wilkinson Episode #69: Hadley Wickham Episode #212: Cedric Scherer iTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeNew Ways to Support the Show! With more than 200 guests and eight seasons of episodes, the PolicyViz Podcast is one of the longest-running data visualization podcasts around. You can support the show by downloading and listening, following the work of my guests, and sharing the show with your networ…

Pieta Blakely and Eli Holder on Data Equity

Pieta Blakely, PhD helps mission-based organizations measure their impact so that they can do what they do well. She started her nonprofit career as a teacher in workforce development and adult basic education. It was important work and she was worried that they didn’t really know if they were doing it well. In the process of trying to answer that question, Pieta got a Masters in Education and a PhD in Social Policy, and became an evaluator. Pieta has been an evaluator for over fifteen years, the past five of those as a consultant helping mission-based organizations use evaluation to build better and more effective programs. She believes that evaluation isn’t a test, it’s an ongoing process of trying things, measuring the results, and making adjustments. Her goal is to help build organizational cultures that thrive on joyful accountability and doing important work well. Pieta is known for explaining complicated things clearly, an emphasis on ethics and justice in evaluation, an…

Storytelling with Data CEO Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Discusses all things Data

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic tells stories with data. She is SWD CEO and author of the brand new book storytelling with you: plan, create, and deliver a stellar presentation and best-selling books storytelling with data: let’s practice! and storytelling with data: a data visualization guide for business professionals, which has been translated into a dozen languages, used as a textbook by more than 100 universities and serves as the course book for tens of thousands of SWD workshop participants. For more than a decade, Cole and her team have delivered interactive learning sessions sought after by data-minded individuals, companies, and philanthropic organizations all over the world. They also help people create graphs that make sense and weave them into compelling stories through the popular SWD community, blog, podcast and videos.Episode Notes Storytelling with Data Storytelling with YouBooks Storytelling with You: Plan, Create, and Deliver a Stellar Presentation Storytelling with Data…

Visualizing Text with Richard Brath

Richard Brath is a long time visualization designer, researcher and strategist. At Uncharted Software, Richard focuses on the creation of high-value visual analytic applications that solve real-word problems in capital markets, supply chain and healt-care analytics. These solutions in use by hundreds of thousands of users around the world every day. Richard is also actively involved with the visualization research community, and has authored two books on data visualization: Graph Analysis and Visualization, together with David Jonker (Wiley 2015); and Visualizing with Text (AK Peters, 2020). Richard’s personal blog on visualization is at richardbrath.wordpress.com and he is on Twitter @rkbrath.Episode Notes Visualizing with Text Book companion site The textual hierarchical table of contents to CyclopaediaRelated Episodes Episode #205: Steve Franconeri and Jen Christiansen a VisComm Workshop Episode # 199: Miriah Meyer Episode # 198: Scott Berkun iTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle…

The Axios Graphics Desk with Danielle Alberti

Danielle Alberti is the data visualization editor at Axios. She was previously a front-end web developer at Pew Research Center and is a journalism and anthropology graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder. She worked her way through nearly every newsroom job (including paper delivery) before landing in data visualization, where she very happily manages a team of ten amazing developer-designers to make news every day. This week’s episode marks the Season 8 finale! I’ll be back in the fall with more great episodes from data visualization and data communication experts and enthusiasts. Thanks to everyone who listened and supported the show this past year. And thanks to the team of folks who help me put it together–from sound and video editing to design to marketing to transcription. If you’d like to keep up with me and learn more about how to effectively communicate your work, check out my newsletter or my Winno community (where, next week, I’ll be giving away a bu…

Episode #220: Aliza Aufrichtig

Aliza Aufrichtig is a graphics and multimedia editor at The New York Times. In addition to covering the coronavirus and elections, she designs and develops stories that demand a bespoke form, often with audio and video. She’s created and maintains several popular websites and tools: Discover Quickly, a way to find new music very, very fast; an e-bike finder for New York City; and a spreadsheet-based period tracker for people with periods who want to own their own data. Episode Notes Aliza on Twitter NYT COVID tracker NYT: Voices of a Grieving Nation NYT: How America Lost One Million People NYT: 1 Million Deaths, 13 Last Messages NYT: Podcast Voices NYT: When a Search Crosses the Line NYT: How China Spreads its Propaganda Version of Life in Xinjiang Washington Post: Cut Short The Daily Podcast Loud Numbers Podcast Svelte Related Episodes Episode #194: Charlie Smart iTunes Spotify Stitcher

Flourish CEO Duncan Clark talks about the Flourish Data Visualization Tool

Duncan Clark is a co-founder of the data and storytelling tool Flourish, which is now part of the Canva family. By background a data-driven author, journalist and publisher. In this week’s episode of the podcast, I talk to Duncan about the Flourish team and how they keep up with current trends, what the Canva acquisition means, and what the future looks like.Episode Notes Duncan Clark | Website | Twitter Canva Flourish * Draw the line template * Bar chart races template * SDK (Github) Mike Bostock The Guardian, Data Visualizations Marimekko Charts – Video from the One Chart at a Time series John Burn-Murdoch on Observable iTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeNew Ways to Support the Show! With more than 200 guests and eight seasons of epis

A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication with Michael Friendly & Howard Wainer

Michael Friendly is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Professor of Psychology, founding Chair of the graduate program in Quantitative Methods at York University, and an Associate Coordinator with the Statistical Consulting Service. He received his doctorate in Psychology from Princeton University, specializing in Psychometrics and Cognitive Psychology. In addition to his research interests in psychology, Professor Friendly has broad experience in data analysis, statistics, and computer applications. He is the author of Discrete Data Analysis with R: Visualization and Modeling Techniques four Categorical and Count Data. He is also the author of SAS for Statistical Graphics, 1st Edition and Visualizing Categorical Data, both published by SAS Institute, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and Statistical Science His recent work includes the further development of graphical methods for categorical data and multivariate linear…

Build Amazing PowerPoint Templates with Julie Terberg & Echo Swinford

Julie Terberg is the founder of Terberg Design, a creative studio focused on crafting presentations that better communicate with audiences. With decades of experience in the presentation industry, Julie has trusted partnerships with other presentation professionals and valued clients around the world. Since 2005, she has been recognized as a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP for her contributions to the presentation community. Julie enjoys teaching others at industry conferences, including the Presentation Summit and the Present to Succeed conference. She served as a founding director of the Presentation Guild and cohost of the Inspired by Design webinar series, exclusively for Guild members. A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP since 2000, Echo Swinford began her PowerPoint career in 1997. She holds a master’s degree in new media from Indiana University and is the owner of Echosvoice, a PowerPoint consulting firm specializing in custom template development, presentation creation, makeovers and…

Protecting Your Privacy in a Data-Driven World with Dr. Claire McKay Bowen

Dr. Claire McKay Bowen is a principal research associate in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population and leads the Statistical Methods Group at the Urban Institute. Her research focuses on developing and assessing the quality of differentially private data synthesis methods and science communication. She holds a BS in mathematics and physics from Idaho State University and an MS and PhD in statistics from the University of Notre Dame. After completing her PhD, she worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she investigated cosmic ray effects on supercomputers. In 2021, the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies identified her as an emerging leader in statistics for her “contributions to the development and broad dissemination of Statistics and Data Science methods and concepts, particularly in the emerging field of Data Privacy, and for leadership of technical initiatives, professional development activities, and educational programs.”Episode Notes Clair…

Publishing Data Columns at the Washington Post with Philip Bump

Philip Bump is a correspondent for The Washington Post based in New York. He largely focuses on the numbers behind politics and he is the author of the weekly newsletter, How To Read This Chart. In this week’s episode of the show, Philip and I talk about his work at the Post, and dealing with all of the haters. We also talk about his work using data in the media and starting his new newsletter. Be sure to check out my new Winno community! Get great dataviz tips and tricks to your phone every week!Episode Notes Philip Bump | Washington Post | Twitter How to Read This Chart newsletter Mentioned articles: * Can Google searches predict where coronavirus cases will soon emerge? * At the end of the second year of the pandemic, the effects are more obviously partisan than ever * Which is easier in your state: Buying a rifle or voting? Adobe Creative Cloud Perl RAWGraphs iTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle Podcasts

Episode #214: Karla Starr

Karla Starr is a columnist for Medium and write the newsletter The Starr Report on Substack. She has appeared on NPR and CBS Sunday Morning and has written for The Atlantic, Slate, Popular Science, and The Guardian. She won an award for the Best Science/Health story from the Society of... The post Episode #214: Karla Starr appeared first on PolicyViz.

New DataViz Learning Opportunity: Elevate Your DataViz Team

On this week's episode, I chat with the four founding members of the new data visualization mentorship community, Elevate Your DataViz. The post Episode #213: Elevate Your DataViz Team appeared first on PolicyViz.

Dr. Cedric Scherer Teaches You Everything You Need to Know about R

Dr. Cedric Scherer is a graduate computational ecologist with a passion for design. In 2020, he combined his expertise in analyzing and visualizing large data sets in R with his passion to become a freelance data visualization specialist. Cédric has... The post Episode #212: Dr. Cedric Scherer appeared first on PolicyViz.

The Early Days of Tableau with Jock D. Mackinlay

Jock D. Mackinlay is the first Technical Fellow at Tableau Software. He believes that well-designed software can help a wide-range of individuals and organizations work effectively with data, which will improve the world. He is an expert in visual analytics and human-computer... The post Episode #211: Jock D. Mackinlay appeared first on PolicyViz.

Dr. Tyler Morgan-Wall and the rayshader R package

Dr. Tyler Morgan-Wall visits the PolicyViz Podcast to talk about 3D and animated 3D in data visualization. The post Episode #210: Dr. Tyler Morgan-Wall appeared first on PolicyViz.

Build Amazing Tableau Dashboards with Ken & Kevin Flerlage

Ken and Kevin Flerlage visit the PolicyViz Podcast to discuss Tableau and some of the challenges and successes they've had, and how you can go about using the free materials on their website. The post Episode #209: The Flerlage Twins appeared first on PolicyViz.

Create Accessible Data Visualizations with Frank Elavsky

This episode of the podcast wraps up 2021. I’ll return in January with all new episodes from the world of data visualization and presentation skills. I hope you have a healthy and happy new year! Frank Elavsky is a software... The post Episode #208: Frank Elavsky appeared first on PolicyViz.

Use RStudio with Tom Mock

Tom works at RStudio, and is obviously very active in the R community. He runs the TidyTuesday project and developed the Grammar of Tables package in the R programming language. The post Episode #207: Tom Mock appeared first on PolicyViz.

Zen Faulkes Shows You How to Up Your Poster Game

Zen Faulkes, author of Better Posters visits PolicyViz Podcast to talk about creating an infographic or presentation slides or data visualization. Even though it's specific to this one part of data communication, I think there's a lot going on here that a lot of us can learn about data communication. So we talk about Zen's background, coming into this poster area. He talked about his interest in design, working with data academics, what it's like to actually be in a conference poster session if you've never been to one. It's quite an interesting experience, and Zen will talk a lot about that in the interview today about what it means actually to sit in this huge room of so many different people talking about their content. The post Episode #206: Zen Faulkes appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #205: Steve Franconeri and Jen Christiansen a VisComm Workshop

In this week’s episode of the podcast, I’m playing the recording from the opening moderated panel discussion between myself, Jen Christiansen, and Steve Franconeri at the 2021 VisComm workshop at the IEEEVIS conference. We (the workshop organizers) asked Jen and... The post Episode #205: Steve Franconeri and Jen Christiansen a VisComm Workshop appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #204: Rebecca Pazos

Rebecca Pazos is a mum of one and a senior data journalist with The Straits Times for six years. Recently, she completed her Masters in visual tools with the University of Girona. She is dedicated to telling compassionate, human-centered data... The post Episode #204: Rebecca Pazos appeared first on PolicyViz.

Data Viz Today podcast host Alli Torban talks design, dataviz, and more

https://policyviz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PolicyViz_EpisodeNo203.mp3 The post Episode #203: Alli Torban appeared first on PolicyViz.

Create Better Tableau Dashboards with Lindsay Betzendahl

Lindsay Betzendahl is a Tableau Zen Master and Tableau Public Ambassador, join us for her visit The PolicyViz Podcast. The post Episode #202: Lindsay Betzendahl appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #201: Leland Wilkinson

Leland Wilkinson is Chief Scientist at H2O and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago visits The PolicyViz Podcast to discuss The Grammar of Graphics, coding, and much much more. The post Episode #201: Leland Wilkinson appeared first on PolicyViz.

Take an Equitable Approach to your Data work with the Do No Harm Guide

In the 200th episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, we discuss the recent Do No Harm Guide about taking a racially equitable lens with your data. The post Episode #200: Do No Harm Guide appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode # 199: Miriah Meyer

Associate professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah and a faculty member in the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute visits the PolicyViz Podcast to talk about the Visualization Design Lab. The post Episode # 199: Miriah Meyer appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode # 198: Scott Berkun

Author and speaker Scott Berkun visits the PolicyViz Podcast to talk about his new book How Design Makes The World. The post Episode # 198: Scott Berkun appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #197: Casey Miller

Data journalist Casey Miller visits the PolicyViz Podcast to talk about her work at the Los Angeles Times. The post Episode #197: Casey Miller appeared first on PolicyViz.

Building a Data Visualization Firm with Francis Gagnon

Francis Gagnon, founder of the information design firm Voila:, visits the podcast to talk about building his own information design company. The post Episode #196: Francis Gagnon appeared first on PolicyViz.

Data Sketches: Nadieh Bremer & Shirley Wu

Data Sketches authors Shirley Wu and Nadieh Bremer visit the PolicyViz Podcast to talk about their work, their process, and the future of dataviz. The post Episode #195: Nadieh Bremer & Shirley Wu appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #194: Charlie Smart

New York Times graphics editor Charlie Smart visits the podcast to talk about his work creating the NYT Covid dashboard and more. The post Episode #194: Charlie Smart appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #193: Kaz Sakamoto

Kaz Sakamoto teaches Urban Planning and GIS techniques at Columbia University. He visits the podcast to talk about his work and teaching. The post Episode #193: Kaz Sakamoto appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #192: Eva Murray

Eva Murray visits the podcast to talk about her work and her new book, Empowered by Data The post Episode #192: Eva Murray appeared first on PolicyViz.

Data Action author Sarah Williams talks using data for good

Sarah Williams from MIT, and author of the new book Data Action, visits the PolicyViz Podcast. The post Episode #191: Sarah Williams appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #190: Rhea Boyd

Rhea Boyd is a pediatrician, public health advocate, and scholar who writes and teaches on the relationship between structural racism, inequity and health. She visits the podcast to talk about her work and how she writes for different audiences. The post Episode #190: Rhea Boyd appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #189: Mimi Onuoha

Artist, coder, and researcher Mimi Onuoha visits the podcast to talk about her work, her process, and how we should think about missing data. The post Episode #189: Mimi Onuoha appeared first on PolicyViz.

Chantilly Jaggernauth shows us how to make beautiful Tableau dashboards

Chantilly Jaggernauth, Tableau Zen Master and founder of the nonprofit Millennials and Data group visits the PolicyViz Podcast to talk about her work and process. The post Episode #188: Chantilly Jaggernauth appeared first on PolicyViz.

I am a book authors Stefanie Posavec & Miriam Quick visit the show

Authors of "I am a book," Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick, visit the podcast to talk about their new book and their process pulling it together. The post Episode #187: Stefanie Posavec & Miriam Quick appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #186: Krisztina Szűcs

Data visualization designer krisztina Szűcs joins the podcast to talk about her work and her process. The post Episode #186: Krisztina Szűcs appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #185: Arathi Sethumadhavan

Arathi Sethumadhavan, Head of User Research for Ethics & Society at Microsoft's Cloud+AI, visits the podcast to talk about her work and what it means to use data ethically. The post Episode #185: Arathi Sethumadhavan appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #184: IEEEVIS Recap

Alvitta Ottley and Robert Kosara visit the podcast to talk about the 2020 IEEEVIS virtual conference. We discuss favorite sessions and papers, and our take on the virtual experience. The post Episode #184: IEEEVIS Recap appeared first on PolicyViz.

Algorithms of Oppression author Safiya Noble visits the show

Author and professor Safiya Noble visits the podcast to talk about the intersection of race and technology, and how "technological redlining" will impact people of color today and in the future. The post Episode #183: Safiya Noble appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #182: Aaron Williams

On this week's show, I talk with Aaron Williams about his work as a data journalist, scientist and visualization expert tackling inequity in data and design at scale. The post Episode #182: Aaron Williams appeared first on PolicyViz.

Automating Inequality author Virginia Eubanks talks inequality in tech

On this week's episode of the show, I chat with Virginia Eubanks about how high-tech tools and software profile and punish people of color and low-income people and families. The post Episode #181: Virginia Eubanks appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #180: Zach Norris

Zach Norris, Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, author of We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities, and co-founder of Restore Oakland, visits the PolicyViz podcast to talk about working with and for people and families across the country. The post Episode #180: Zach Norris appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #179. Kandrea Wade

Kandrea Wade visits the podcast to talk about her work on algorithmic identity and the digital surveillance of marginalized groups. More information and links in the full show notes. The post Episode #179. Kandrea Wade appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #178: Valentina D'Efilippo

Valentina D’Efilippo is an award-winning designer, creative director, and author based in London. Working across formats and industries, her work takes many forms – from theatre productions and exhibitions to editorial content and digital experiences. She has co-authored “The Infographic... The post Episode #178: Valentina D’Efilippo appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #177: Christine Zhang

Christine Zhang just joined the Financial Times as a data journalist on the US elections team for 2020. Previously, she was a data journalist at The Baltimore Sun, where she used numbers, statistics and graphics to tell local news stories... The post Episode #177: Christine Zhang appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #176: Manuel Lima

Manuel Lima is the author of three books and a leading voice on information visualization. He has worked with an array of organizations designing digital experiences and leading product teams. On this week’s episode of the podcast, I’m reposting a... The post Episode #176: Manuel Lima appeared first on PolicyViz.

D3 creator Mike Bostock visits the show

Mike Bostock is the creator of D3, a popular open-source JavaScript library for visualizing data and Observable, an open-source notebook for exploring data and thinking with code. Previously, Mike was a graphics editor for The New York Times, where he helped produce a... The post Episode #175: Mike Bostock appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #174: Graham MacDonald and Claire Bowen

In case you don’t know, for the last 12 weeks or so I’ve been hosting live video chats with experts in the fields of data, presentation skills, and data visualization. This Data@Urban Digital Discussion series gives (I hope!) people an... The post Episode #174: Graham MacDonald and Claire Bowen appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #173: Niklas Elmqvist

Niklas Elmqvist is a full professor in the iSchool at University of Maryland, College Park where he directs the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL). His research area is information visualization, human-computer interaction, and visual analytics. He was elevated to the rank... The post Episode #173: Niklas Elmqvist appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #172: Alper Sarikaya

Alper Sarikaya is a Research and Development Engineer at Microsoft working on Power BI and its visualization features. His experience has focused on enabling people to create summary visualizations for the purposes of effectively communicating trends, patterns, and distributions in... The post Episode #172: Alper Sarikaya appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #171: Jake Berman

Jake Berman is an artist, historian, and attorney. His celebrated project The Lost Subways of North America has been featured in The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and Atlas Obscura. In this week’s episode of the podcast, Jake and I talk about his work and get a... The post Episode #171: Jake Berman appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #170: DataViz in the Time of COVID

As the world hunkers down to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a lot of information is making its way to our information channels. Some of this information is true, some is false, and some is misleading in one way... The post Episode #170: DataViz in the Time of COVID appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #169: Meagan Longoria

Meagan Longoria is a business intelligence consultant with Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting and a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. She helps people understand their data and use it to make better decisions. While her skills include data modeling, data warehousing,... The post Episode #169: Meagan Longoria appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #168: Ann Emery

Over the past few years of doing this show, I’ve made a whole new bunch of friends. Honestly, some guests I would call ‘acquaintances’, but for others, we’ve either become new friends because of the show or they were friends... The post Episode #168: Ann Emery appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #167: Elevate the Debate: How to Drive Fact-Based Policy Conversations

In this week’s episode, I start to celebrate my new book, Elevate the Debate: A Multilayered Approach to Communicating Your Research. Co-authored with my colleagues in the communications department at the Urban Institute, the goal of the book is to... The post Episode #167: Elevate the Debate: How to Drive Fact-Based Policy Conversations appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #166: Jessica Witt

Dr. Jessica Witt is a Professor in Psychology at Colorado State University. Dr. Witt received her Ph.D from the University of Virginia in 2007, and has been at CSU since 2012. Dr. Witt recently won the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific... The post Episode #166: Jessica Witt appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #165: Amelia Wattenberger

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had some time to rest and relax with friends and family. Thanks for tuning into the show. On this week’s episode, I’m excited to chat with Amelia Wattenberger, a developer and designer focused... The post Episode #165: Amelia Wattenberger appeared first on PolicyViz.

Build Awesome Conference Posters with Mike Morrison

Cheers to the last episode of The PolicyViz Podcast for 2019! I’ll be taking a couple of weeks off before coming back with brand new episodes in January. In the meantime, please take a peek at my forthcoming book, Elevate... The post Episode #165: Mike Morrison appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #164: Molly Bauch

Molly Bauch specializes in business transformation, innovation, and strategic communications. She has more than 15 years’ consulting experience helping clients launch new programs, transform service delivery, and embrace fundamental, sustainable change. She’s a Climate Reality Leader, an International Society for... The post Episode #164: Molly Bauch appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #163: Anti-Defamation League

I try to spend time watching great speeches. It helps inform how I give my own talks and how I think about teaching others. This past week, I watched Sacha Baron Cohen’s remarks at the Anti-Defamation League’s International Leadership Awards... The post Episode #163: Anti-Defamation League appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #162: Stéphanie Walter

With a decade of experience as User eXperience Designer, Stéphanie Walter helps her clients in the banking, healthcare, automotive and financial industry deliver successful projects to their audience, all the way from strategy to the final products and services. She... The post Episode #162: Stéphanie Walter appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #161: Rob Simmon

Robert Simmon is a data visualizer and designer working with Planet. He focuses on producing visualizations that are elegant and easily understandable, while accurately presenting the underlying data. He helped create some of NASA and Planet’s most widely-seen imagery, including... The post Episode #161: Rob Simmon appeared first on PolicyViz.

Kenneth Field shows you how to create great maps

Kenneth Field is a ‘cartonerd’ with a Bachelors degree in cartography and PhD in GIS. A former academic who grew tired of admin, he ditched his 20 year career, moved to the US, and talks and writes about cartography, teaches,... The post Episode #160: Kenneth Field appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #159: Sandra Rendgen

Sandra Rendgen is an author, consultant and concept developer with a focus on data visualization, interactive media and the history of infographics. She is the author of several books about historical and current developments in the field, most recently History... The post Episode #159: Sandra Rendgen appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #158: Ron Wasserstein

Ronald L. (Ron) Wasserstein is the executive director of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and he joins me this week on the podcast to talk about the 2020 Census. In this role at the ASA, Wasserstein provides executive leadership and... The post Episode #158: Ron Wasserstein appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #157: Alberto Cairo

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I hope you had a great summer and got some time to rest and relax. I’m really excited for this season of the show–I’ve got some great guests lined up to talk about their... The post Episode #157: Alberto Cairo appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #156: Ben Jones

Ben Jones is the founder and CEO of Data Literacy, a training and education company that’s on a mission to help people learn the language of data. Ben is a highly experienced and passionate instructor, having taught data to thousands... The post Episode #156: Ben Jones appeared first on PolicyViz.

The Financial Times' John Burn-Murdoch talks the Annotation Layer

Part of the FT’s interactive news team, John-Burn Murdoch works as a journalist alongside developers and designers to produce a mix of long term data-driven projects and same day interactive news stories. Other activities include presenting to domestic and overseas... The post Episode #155: John Burn-Murdoch appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #154: Michael Kubovy

Michael Kubovy is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Virginia. His publications in cognitive science span the fields of decision-making, visual and auditory perception, the psychology of art and the psychology of pleasure. In his work on perception he... The post Episode #154: Michael Kubovy appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #153: Claus Wilke

Claus O. Wilke is a computational and evolutionary biologist and chair of the Department of Integrative Biology at University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Dwight W. and Blanche Faye Reeder Centennial Fellow in Systematic and Evolutionary Biology.... The post Episode #153: Claus Wilke appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #152: Cal Newport

Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University and the author of six books, including Deep Work and So Good They Can’t Ignore You. You won’t find him on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, but you can often find him at home with... The post Episode #152: Cal Newport appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #151: Kassia St. Clair

Kassia St Clair is a writer based in London. She studied women’s dress and eighteenth-century masquerade at the University of Bristol and Oxford.She has since written about design and culture for publications including the Economist, the Telegraph, TLS and Architectural... The post Episode #151: Kassia St. Clair appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #150: Learning R

Welcome back to this, the 150th episode of the PolicyViz Podcast! With four years of episodes (almost to the day!), I’ve had a lot of fun bringing you insights from people all across the globe doing amazing work in the... The post Episode #150: Learning R appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #149: Michael Freeman

Michael Freeman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington Information School, where he teaches courses in data science, interactive data visualization, and web development. Prior to his teaching career, he worked as a data visualization specialist and research... The post Episode #149: Michael Freeman appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #148: Jessica Bellamy

International speaker, Adobe Creative Residency alumna, and award-winning infographic designer, Jessica Bellamy, graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Louisville (UofL) with degrees in Drawing (BFA), Graphic Design (BFA), Pan African Studies (BA), and a minor in Communication. As... The post Episode #148: Jessica Bellamy appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #147: Lazaro Gamio

Lazaro Gamio is a deputy managing editor at Axios, where he oversees a group of visual journalists that make charts, maps, interactive graphics and editorial illustrations. He previously worked at the Washington Post as an assignment editor on the graphics... The post Episode #147: Lazaro Gamio appeared first on PolicyViz.

Creating bespoke data visualizations with Alyssa Fowers

Alyssa Fowers is a Ph.D. student at the University of Miami where she studies research methods, applied statistics, and data visualization. She writes about graphs (and sometimes swords) at Data & Dragons. Before returning to graduate school, she worked in... The post Episode #146: Alyssa Fowers appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #145: RJ Andrews

RJ Andrews is a data storyteller. He is the author of the new book Info We Trust, a lavish adventure exploring how to inspire the world with data. RJ blends creative arts and data science to inform. As an independent creative... The post Episode #145: RJ Andrews appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #144: Neil Richards

Happy New Year, everyone! And welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I hope you had a happy and safe holiday season. I’ve got a great lineup of guests coming your way, so stay tuned to hear discussions with authors, designers,... The post Episode #144: Neil Richards appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #142: Year in Review

Another year has passed and a lot has happened in the data visualization world. For this final episode of the PolicyViz Podcast for 2018, I’m reposting the year in review episode from Data Stories, in which I joined hosts Enrico... The post Episode #142: Year in Review appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #142: Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein

On this week’s episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I’m excited to welcome Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, authors of the new book, Data Feminsim. The book is currently open for public review and comment, so you can head over to the... The post Episode #142: Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #141: Tapestry Roundup with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

On this week’s episode of the show, I chat with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic from Storytelling with Data to talk about the recent Tapestry Conference held in Miami, FL. A day-and-a-half of great talks and great people, Tapestry is a small... The post Episode #141: Tapestry Roundup with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #140: Scott Berinato

Scott Berinato is is the author of Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations. Even though he’s a writer, he’s also a self-described “dataviz geek” who loves the challenge of finding visual solutions to communications and... The post Episode #140: Scott Berinato appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #139: Michael Brenner

Michael Brenner is a designer and educator. He is currently Head of Design at DATA4CHAN.GE, which is a non-for-profit organization that helps civil society organizations create data driven advocacy campaigns. Before this he was Design Director at Beyond Words Studio.... The post Episode #139: Michael Brenner appeared first on PolicyViz.

Learn about Google Data Studio with Minhaz Kazi

Minhaz Kazi is a Developer Advocate for Google Data Studio. A business intelligence veteran, Minhaz is always exploring new ways for developers to collect, analyze, and visualize data. He is available for long discussions on circular reference errors, benefits of pie... The post Episode #138: Minhaz Kazi appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #137: Information+ Conference

I spent the weekend-before-last in Potsdam, Germany attending the Information Plus Conference. In its second iteration (the first was in Vancouver in 2016), Info+ brings together designers, academics, and practitioners to discuss the current state of data visualization work and... The post Episode #137: Information+ Conference appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #136: W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I’m just back from Germany attending the Information+ Conference in Potsdam and am excited for this week’s episode. This week, I chat with Britt Rusert, one of the editors of the new book, W. E.... The post Episode #136: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #135: Kerri Ruttenberg

Kerri Ruttenberg is a partner at Jones Day and the Head of Litigation for the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. She has tried cases in state and federal courts around the country, representing clients in a broad range of cases including... The post Episode #135: Kerri Ruttenberg appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #134: Kevin Hassett

Welcome back to the show. On this week’s episode, I sit down with the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Kevin Hassett. Prior to his current stint at the CEA, Kevin was at the American Enterprise Institute. He was... The post Episode #134: Kevin Hassett appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #133: Hilary Mason

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! After a lovely summer break, I’m back with new episodes focusing on data, data visualization, and presentation skills. I’m slowing things down a bit this year and going to an every-other-week format. Still on... The post Episode #133: Hilary Mason appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #132: Carmine Gallo

On today’s show, I’m very happy to welcome best selling author and speaker, Carmine Gallo. Carmine is the bestselling author of Talk Like TED, The Storyteller’s Secret, and most recently, Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great. He is... The post Episode #132: Carmine Gallo appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #131: Dan Roam

Dan Roam is the author of five international bestselling books on business-visualization which have been translated into 31 languages. “The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems with Pictures” was named by Fast Company, The London Times, and BusinessWeek as ‘Creativity Book... The post Episode #131: Dan Roam appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #130: A Tribute to Michael Cristiani

Michael Cristiani passed away at the end of May of this year. Michael was a well-known and well-loved member of the Tableau community. I didn’t know him well–I only met him in person once. But we communicated via Twitter and... The post Episode #130: A Tribute to Michael Cristiani appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #129: David Johnson

David Johnson is the Deputy Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics at the University of Michigan. Prior to that position, Dr. Johnson was the Chief Economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. He also served as the chief of the... The post Episode #129: David Johnson appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #128: Andrew Ibrahim

Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc is a House Staff Surgeon at the University of Michigan and Chief Medical Officer at HOK Architects. He completed his undergraduate and medical degrees education both with Honors at Case Western Reserve University with a year... The post Episode #128: Andrew Ibrahim appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #127: OpenVisConf Recap

Welcome back to the podcast! On this week’s episode, I sit down with three amazing people from different parts of the data visualization world to recap the 2018 OpenVisConf conference held in Paris, France earlier this month. Who do I... The post Episode #127: OpenVisConf Recap appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #126: Alex Selby-Boothroyd & Marie Segger

Alex Selby-Boothroyd joined The Economist as an interactive visual data journalist in 2015 and now runs the data journalism department. His team writes data-driven articles and creates all of the static and interactive charts and maps for the website, apps and weekly... The post Episode #126: Alex Selby-Boothroyd & Marie Segger appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #125: Laura Lindenfeld and Valeri Lantz-Gefroh

The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, hosted in the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University, empowers scientists and health professionals to communicate complex topics in clear, vivid, and engaging ways; leading to improved understanding by the public, media,... The post Episode #125: Laura Lindenfeld and Valeri Lantz-Gefroh appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #124: Eileen Webb

Eileen Webb is a digital strategist and co-founder of webmeadow, a firm that helps progressive organizations develop content and technology strategies to make the world a better place. Her background is in server-side coding and being that odd person who... The post Episode #124: Eileen Webb appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #123: Scott Murray

Scott Murray is the Principal Learning Scientist at O’Reilly Media. Prior to that work, he was an Assistant Professor of Design at USF. He works with code, data, and computation to design learning experiences and is deeply interested in learning, teaching,... The post Episode #123: Scott Murray appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #122: Terri Trespicio

Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, and branding pro, and works with individuals and organizations to help nail their messaging and engage clients, customers, and fans. Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion” has earned more than 3... The post Episode #122: Terri Trespicio appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #121: Erin Hengel and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

On this week’s episode of the podcast, I’m joined by two guests to talk about gender discrimination in the field of economics. Erin Hengel is an assistant professor of Economics at the University of Liverpool. She evaluates bankruptcy vis-à-vis recent... The post Episode #121: Erin Hengel and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #120: Alberto Cairo

Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami. He teaches data visualization and infographics in our Journalism and Interactive Media Masters programs, and he is also the director of the Visualization Program at UM’s Center... The post Episode #120: Alberto Cairo appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #119: Emma Bannister

Emma Bannister is the founder and CEO of Presentation Studio, a presentation-design firm based in in Sydney, Australia. Emma has designed presentations for banks, technology firms, and others to help them communicate better. Emma and her staff of 20 are... The post Episode #119: Emma Bannister appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #118: Stephy Lewis

From chemist to artist to designer, Stephy Lewis used to be a total Adobe snob until she was thrust into the world of presentation design. Ever since, she’s been passionately evangelizing the field in an attempt to elevate our industry as high... The post Episode #118: Stephy Lewis appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #117: Steve Haroz

Steve Haroz is a postdoc researcher at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. His research explores how the brain perceives and understands visually displayed information like charts and infographics. We talk about data visualization research, uncertainty, connected scatterplots, and... The post Episode #117: Steve Haroz appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #116: George Johnston

George Johnston is the founder of Nitrous, a platform to help startup companies collaborate with governments to ensure more sustainable and cost effective innovation. They also help government open and share their data through collaboration with other partners. George is also... The post Episode #116: George Johnston appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #115: Data Ethics with Laura Noren & Hetan Shah

On last week’s episode, I sat outside Facebook and chatted with Andy Kirk about our experience at the Social Science Foo Camp, a two-and-a-half day conference at Facebook that brought together all sorts of social scientists. One of the first... The post Episode #115: Data Ethics with Laura Noren & Hetan Shah appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #114: Andy Kirk at SocSciFoo

I just returned from a 10-day data visualization trek from DC to New York to San Francisco to Los Angeles where I talk workshops, gave talks, and attended the Social Science Foo Camp at Facebook. SocSciFoo, as it’s called, is... The post Episode #114: Andy Kirk at SocSciFoo appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode No. 113: What's Going On in This Graph?

Michael Gonchar and Sharon Hessney lead a new project at the New York Times called “What’s Going On in This Graph?” (WGOITG). Every second Tuesday of every month, the NYT publishes a graphic on a topic suitable for subjects across... The post Episode No. 113: What’s Going On in This Graph? appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #112: Len Burman

We take a turn towards public policy and communicating research in this week’s episode of the podcast. My guest is my Urban Institute colleague Len Burman, an Institute Fellow and the Paul Volcker Professor and a Professor of Public Administration and... The post Episode #112: Len Burman appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #111: Len Kiefer

Len Kiefer is the Deputy Chief Economist at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, better known, as Freddie Mac. Freddie Mac is the government sponsored enterprise that helps keep mortgage money flowing to home buyers and home owners, across America.... The post Episode #111: Len Kiefer appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #110: Ben Welsh

Ben Welsh is the editor of the Data Desk at the LA Times (@LATdatadesk), a team of reporters and computer programmers in the newsroom that works to collect, organize, analyze and present large amounts of information. Projects that he has contributed... The post Episode #110: Ben Welsh appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #109: Jenn Schiffer

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you were able to enjoy some R&R, and spend some time with friends and family. To kick of a great new slate of guests in 2018, I’m very excited to welcome Jenn Schiffer to the... The post Episode #109: Jenn Schiffer appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #108: Andy Kirk

For the final episode of 2017, I’m super excited to chat with my old friendAndy Kirk from Visualising Data. You undoubtedly know Andy from his website, books, presentations, Twitter feed, monthly roundups, and overall data viz awesomeness. Andy is also a... The post Episode #108: Andy Kirk appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #107: Jane Pong

Jane Pong is a Data Visualization Journalist at the Financial Times. Previously, she produced information graphics at Thomson Reuters in Singapore and South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney with a combined Arts/Science... The post Episode #107: Jane Pong appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #106: Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

On this week’s episode of the podcast, I welcome two special guests, Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, authors of the new biography of Claude Shannon, the father of information theory. Jimmy Soni has served as an editor at the New... The post Episode #106: Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #105: Kenton Powell

Kenton Powell is the Head of Design and Graphics at Vice News, a somewhat new venture from Vice and now showing on HBO. Prior to Vice, Kenton was a designer at Bloomberg Business Week and then an interactive editor for... The post Episode #105: Kenton Powell appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #104: Matt Abrahams

Matt Abrahams is the author of the book Speaking Up without Freaking Out: 50 Techniques for Confident and Compelling Presenting which can help you address your presentation anxieties. Matt teaches Strategic Communication for Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and Presentation Skills for Stanford’s... The post Episode #104: Matt Abrahams appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #103: Francis Gagnon

Francis Gagnon is founder of the Voilà data analytics and visualization firm. He has worked in reporting and information design at the international level for the last decade. At the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, he designed... The post Episode #103: Francis Gagnon appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #102: Severino Ribecca

You know Severino Ribecca. He’s the one who runsThe Data Visualisation Catalogue, a library of different information visualisation types. Sev and I have also worked together for a few years developing the various Graphic Continuum products. Sev is a graphic... The post Episode #102: Severino Ribecca appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #101: Diana Yoo

Diana Yoo has over ten years of experience as an information graphic designer and as an art director/design director. As the Art and Creative Director at the Pew Research Center, Diana lead a multidisciplinary team to develop digital projects of all... The post Episode #101: Diana Yoo appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #100: Jon Schwabish

Welcome to the 100th episode of the PolicyViz Podcast! 100 episodes! More than 100 guests spanning more than 33 hours to bring you the best of data visualization, open data, storytelling, and presentation skills. I hope you have enjoyed the... The post Episode #100: Jon Schwabish appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #99: Cambria Brown

Cambria Brown is a Performance Management and Data Specialist with the Office of Planning, Partnerships and Improvement at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. She specializes in performance management, data visualization and data dashboard development for divisions and... The post Episode #99: Cambria Brown appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #98: Mark Monmonier

Mark Monmonier is a Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. In the data visualization field, he is probably best known for his fantastic book, How to Lie with Maps. Professor Monmonier’s research focuses on the history... The post Episode #98: Mark Monmonier appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #97: Tom Weatherburn and William Davis

Working together, Tom Weatherburn and William Davis run the mapTO website a project where they make maps of Toronto and the surrounding areas. I found their project on rescaling the Toronto subway system to actual geography really intriguing, so I invited them to come... The post Episode #97: Tom Weatherburn and William Davis appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #96: Neil Halloran

Neil Halloran is one of those people who, in my mind, is pushing the data visualization field in different directions. In his two data-driven documentaries, The Fallen and The Shadow Peace, Neil uses different ways of showing data to convey... The post Episode #96: Neil Halloran appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #95: Jen Golbeck

Hi everyone, welcome back! I’m excited to have Jen Golbeck on this week’s episode. Jen is a world leader in social media research and science communication. She is a pioneer in the field of social data analytics, discovering people’s hidden... The post Episode #95: Jen Golbeck appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #94: Lilian Coral

Welcome back to the show! To get you ready for the September 23rd National Day of Civic Hacking, I’m very happy to have Lilian Coral on this week’s episode. At the time of this interview in late August, Lilian was... The post Episode #94: Lilian Coral appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #93: Robert Kosara

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I’m back! After a few weeks off this summer to enjoy the nice weather and time with the family, I’m excited to be back with a whole new slate of guests. Over the next... The post Episode #93: Robert Kosara appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #92: Catherine Madden

Hi everyone, welcome back to the show! This will be the last episode for the summer. I’m going to take a break from podcasting for the next two months, do some writing, relaxing, and traveling, and gear up for a... The post Episode #92: Catherine Madden appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #91: Shomik Sarkar

Welcome back to this week’s show! This week, I speak with Shomik Sarkar, who is currently a data scientist at the Democratic National Committee and was Director of Reporting for Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president. Shomik and I talk about how... The post Episode #91: Shomik Sarkar appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #90: Javier Zarracina and Anna Flagg

I hope you’ve enjoyed the last few episodes of the podcast. Continuing a theme that has been present in the last few episodes, on this week’s show I welcome Javier Zarracina from Vox and Anna Flagg from the Marshall Project... The post Episode #90: Javier Zarracina and Anna Flagg appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #89: Priya Krishnakumar

In this week’s episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I’m joined by Priya Krishnakumar, a visual/data journalist at the LA Times. I’m a big fan of Priya’s work and her colleagues at the LA Times. For me in particular, I think... The post Episode #89: Priya Krishnakumar appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #88: The Big Book of Dashboards

Welcome back to the show! There are lots of decisions to be made when it comes to creating a data visualization. And when you pull multiple visualizations together into one view, the decisions compound. That’s why on this week’s show,... The post Episode #88: The Big Book of Dashboards appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #87: Elijah Meeks

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast. This week, I’m pleased to welcome Elijah Meeks to the show to talk about his work as a Senior Data Visualization Engineer at Netflix and the state of data visualization jobs. Elijah sparked a... The post Episode #87: Elijah Meeks appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #86: Mona Chalabi

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! On this week’s episode, I’m very pleased to be joined by Mona Chalabi from the Guardian. Mona, if you don’t already know, is involved in a number of exciting projects at the Guardian and... The post Episode #86: Mona Chalabi appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #85: Anna Flagg

Welcome back to this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast. I’m pleased to welcome Anna Flagg from the Marshall Project this week. Anna and I met at the Malofiej Infographic World Summit in March. With 899 online entries to judge,... The post Episode #85: Anna Flagg appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #84: Dan Morgan

Do you like transportation? Do you like data about transportation? Then you’re going to love this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast! On this week’s show, I’m very happy to be joined by Dan Morgan, the Chief Data Officer at the Department of... The post Episode #84: Dan Morgan appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #83: Chad Skelton

Many people agreed with my basic argument during last month’s Month of Story. One person, however, had a slightly different take on how we tell stories with data and what that concept means as it is applied to data. Chad Skelton, formerly... The post Episode #83: Chad Skelton appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #82: Rune Madsen

The “open” movement consists of different product types–we all know about open data and open source code, for example. But more and more, we’re seeing open book writing. Last year, Hadley Wickham wrote his book on R in an open platform.... The post Episode #82: Rune Madsen appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #81: Scott Schwertly

This podcast episode wraps up my Month of Story (and the end of my lost voice!). Over the past month, I’ve done a number of presentations and blog writing about stories, and I’ve talked to some incredible journalists and data... The post Episode #81: Scott Schwertly appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #80: Alvin Chang

I’m currently in Pamplona, Spain enjoying what is turning out to be a very rewarding and tiring week at the Malofiej Infographic World Summit (follow #malofiej25 on Twitter, if you like). If I can find the time, I’ll try to conduct... The post Episode #80: Alvin Chang appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #79: Jan Willem Tulp

My “Month of Story” continues! And I’ve finally started publishing some blog posts on the issue, so check out the PolicyViz blog all this week. On the podcast, the Month of Story continues this week with Jan Willem Tulp. Jan... The post Episode #79: Jan Willem Tulp appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #78: Meredith Lee

As the “Month of Story” continues, I head out west this week to talk with the Executive Director of the West Big Data Hub, Meredith Lee. Meredith was a Science and Technology Fellow here in DC, worked at the Department... The post Episode #78: Meredith Lee appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #77: John Yorke

I’m calling March the “Month of Story.” Kicking off with the Tapestry Conference in St. Augustine, Florida, the Socrata Connect conference in Washington, DC on March 7, and ending with the Malofiej Infographic World Summit in Pamplona, Spain, I’m focusing on... The post Episode #77: John Yorke appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #76: Sarah Kalicin

Welcome back to the show! This week, I chat with Sarah Kalicin, Senior Statistician at Intel about how to get an organization to leverage their data to improve their work, analysis, and communication. We talk about all things organizational this... The post Episode #76: Sarah Kalicin appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #75: David Bauer

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! As I’m sure you’re aware, data visualization tools are a regular source of discussion: Which tools to use? Which one is best? Which one allows me to do this or that or the other?... The post Episode #75: David Bauer appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #74: GovTech Singapore

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! On this week’s episode, I chat with Feng-yuan Liu and Shangqian Lee from GovTech Singapore. GovTech is responsible for using technology and data to help transform the public sector in Singapore. Their role includes deploying... The post Episode #74: GovTech Singapore appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #73: Xan Gregg

On this week’s episode of the show, I’m excited to chat with Xan Gregg, Data Visualization Development Director for JMP at SAS (see below). Xan regularly creates visualizations and makeovers for all sorts of interesting topics, as well as, of... The post Episode #73: Xan Gregg appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #72: Maarten Lambrechts

Hi everyone, welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! This week, I’m pleased to chat with data journalist, designer, and (new) visualization consultant, Maarten Lambrechts. Maarten has built a ton of great projects and analysis, so we dive into his process, his... The post Episode #72: Maarten Lambrechts appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #71: Tracy Gordon

Hi everyone! Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! On this week’s episode, I’m excited to welcome my Urban Institute colleague Tracy Gordon to the show. Tracy is a senior fellow with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, where she researches and writes... The post Episode #71: Tracy Gordon appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #70: Simon Rogers

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! On this week’s episode, I’m excited to welcome Simon Rogers to the show. Simon is a data journalist, writer, and speaker and has worked at the Guardian in the UK, Twitter, and is now a... The post Episode #70: Simon Rogers appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #69: Hadley Wickham

Hi everyone! Happy New Year and welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I hope you had a relaxing holiday season. To kick off 2017, I’m excited to welcome Hadley Wickham to the show to talk about his work with the... The post Episode #69: Hadley Wickham appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #68: Randy Olson

Welcome to the final episode of The PolicyViz Podcast of 2016! Across 39 episodes this year, we’ve covered open data, data visualization, data workflow issues, presentation skills and design, and more! Thank you for tuning in each week! Your support... The post Episode #68: Randy Olson appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #67: Wilson Andrews

Thanks for tuning in to this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast! This week, I talk with Wilson Andrews, Graphics Editor at the New York Times. In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, Wilson and I talk about polling,... The post Episode #67: Wilson Andrews appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #66: Randy Krum

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! I’m back after a couple of weeks off–first, taking a break for the Thanksgiving holiday, and then to iron out some bugs with the new PolicyViz website. On this week’s show, I chat with... The post Episode #66: Randy Krum appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #65: Nadieh Bremer

Welcome back to the show! I’m super excited to chat with Nadieh Bremer on this week’s show. Nadieh is an astronomer by training who came to love data visualization. (Does anyone come to data visualization directly??). Her projects include web-based interactive... The post Episode #65: Nadieh Bremer appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #64: Kim Rees

On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Kim Rees, who is Co-founder and Head of Visualization at the data visualization firm Periscopic. You may know Kim from her great work at Periscopic, her talk at the... The post Episode #64: Kim Rees appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #62: Garr Reynolds

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! With my book on presentations about to launch, I’m very excited to talk with one of the authors who inspired my work in this area, Garr Reynolds. If you’ve ever thought carefully about how... The post Episode #62: Garr Reynolds appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #63: Stephanie Evergreen

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. On this week’s show, I chat with Stephanie Evergreen whose new book on data visualization, Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data, was released in May. In this week’s episode, Stephanie and I... The post Episode #63: Stephanie Evergreen appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #61: Drew Skau & Robert Kosara

On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I’m pleased to chat with Drew Skau and Robert Kosara, who co-authored a couple of papers on how we perceive the quantities in pie charts. Their work centers on how do we perceive quantities... The post Episode #61: Drew Skau & Robert Kosara appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #60: Evan Sinar

On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I’m pleased to welcome Evan Sinar to the show. Evan is the Chief Scientist and Vice President at Development Dimensions International (DDI) in Pittsburgh. Evan is a Industrial and Organizational Psychologist (I/O Psych)... The post Episode #60: Evan Sinar appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #59: Beth Akers and Matt Chingos

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I’m taking a bit of a turn on the show. Instead of talking with people directly creating visualizations or building visualization tools, I talk to two people working in the field of education research... The post Episode #59: Beth Akers and Matt Chingos appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #58: The Financial Times Graphic Desk

Welcome back to the show! This week, I’m very pleased to be joined by John Burn-Murdoch, Alan Smith, and Martin Stabe from the graphics desk at the Financial Times. Established in 1884, the Financial Times is one of the world’s leading... The post Episode #58: The Financial Times Graphic Desk appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #57: Data+Women

On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with the organizers of the DC chapter of the Data+Women Meetup group, Brittany Fong, Julie Kim, Emily Kund, and Erin Simpler. We talk about the current state of the group, challenges... The post Episode #57: Data+Women appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #56: Andy Kirk

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! I hope you had a great, safe summer. To kick off the fall slate of episodes, I’m very excited to welcome Andy Kirk to the show. Andy–as I’m sure you know–runs the popular website Visualisingdata.com,... The post Episode #56: Andy Kirk appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #55: William Cleveland

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. Number 55 if you’re keeping count. This is the final episode for the summer; I’m going to take some time off from recording, editing, and setting up before coming back in the fall with... The post Episode #55: William Cleveland appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #54: Zan Armstrong

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. On this week’s show, I chat with Zan Armstrong (in person, no less!) about her work analyzing and visualizing data. I first met Zan in the spring at the OpenVisConf following her great talk... The post Episode #54: Zan Armstrong appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #53: Jen Christiansen

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. Episode #53, if you’re keeping count. On this week’s show, I’m happy to chat with Jen Christiansen, Senior Graphics Editor at Scientific American. We talk about a whole range of issues this week, folks:... The post Episode #53: Jen Christiansen appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #52: Carmen Simon

Welcome back to the show! As you may know, I’m a big fan of data and research that shows how we do or don’t acquire information. But so much of that research–or purported research, I should say–sits on dubious methods... The post Episode #52: Carmen Simon appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #51: Kennedy Elliott

I’m very excited to welcome Kennedy Elliott to this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast. Kennedy is a member of the graphics department at the Washington Post and part of the team that recently won a Pulitzer Prize for their... The post Episode #51: Kennedy Elliott appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #50: Max Galka

Welcome back to the show! This week, I’m pleased to have Max Galka join me on the show. Max is a data enthusiast and has created a lot of great visualizations, ranging from such topics as immigration, traffic, and climate... The post Episode #50: Max Galka appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #49: Brian Boyer

This week’s episode was recorded live at NPR in Northeast Washington, DC with Supervising Senior Editor of the NPR Visuals team, Brian Boyer. No, I didn’t get to sit in one of the fancy chairs, but I did get to... The post Episode #49: Brian Boyer appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #48: Center for Government Excellence

Welcome back to the show! On this week’s episode, I’m pleased to welcome Rebecca Williams and Eric Reese from the Center for Government Excellence at the Johns Hopkins University. We talk about all things open data, open technology, and how... The post Episode #48: Center for Government Excellence appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #47: Isabel Meirelles

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast. Thanks for tuning in each week to hear about people doing great work in data, open data, data visualization, and other related fields. In this week’s show, I’m happy to have Isabel Meirelles join... The post Episode #47: Isabel Meirelles appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #46: Makeover Monday

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I’m pleased to welcome Andy Cotgreave and Andy Kriebel to the show this week. Each week, The Andys, as it were, are the primary authors of the Makeover Monday project in which they–and dozens... The post Episode #46: Makeover Monday appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #45: Seth Blanchard

I’m pleased to be joined by Seth Blanchard this week on the show. Seth is a Senior Developer on the engineering team of the graphics department at the Washington Post. He helps develop new story forms and smooths development process... The post Episode #45: Seth Blanchard appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #44: Lane Harrison

Recorded along the lovely Boston Harbor (enjoy the outdoor sounds), in this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Lane Harrison, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. We not only talk about Lane’s interesting... The post Episode #44: Lane Harrison appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #43: Marie Whittaker

In this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Marie Whittaker from the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED) in Washington, DC. With a small team responsible for providing economic insight to DC’s... The post Episode #43: Marie Whittaker appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #42: Ben Jones

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. I’m happy to have Ben Jones on the show this week. Ben writes about data visualization on his popular blog Data Remixed and also helps run Tableau Public. Ben is a prolific writer, blogger, speaker,... The post Episode #42: Ben Jones appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #41: Mike Pell

As everyone knows, Microsoft creates a lot of stuff: software, hardware, services, cloud services, and more. But there is also a group at Microsoft that gets to play around and create cool stuff. In this week’s episode of The PolicyViz... The post Episode #41: Mike Pell appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #40: Zach Gemignani

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. This week, I’m pleased to chat with Zach Gemignani, CEO and Founder of Juice Analytics. Juice, a sponsor of the show, helps their customers analyze, visualize, and deliver their data. Their experiences with different clients demonstrates... The post Episode #40: Zach Gemignani appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #39: Alberto Cairo

Tomorrow (April 6) marks the first birthday of The PolicyViz Podcast! Thanks so much for continuing to tune in every week; your support makes the show worth doing. And a special thanks to Juice Analytics for sponsoring this and many other... The post Episode #39: Alberto Cairo appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #38: Steven Drucker

I’m pleased to welcome Steven Drucker to the show, who is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research. Steven and I talk about MSR’s new project, SandDance, a browser-based information visualization system that scales to hundreds of thousands of items. You... The post Episode #38: Steven Drucker appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #37: Sarah Kliff

On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Sarah Kliff from Vox. Sarah is a Senior Editor at Vox.com and oversees reporting on health and medicine. She previously worked at the Washington Post and Politico. Sarah and I... The post Episode #37: Sarah Kliff appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #36: Xaquín González Veira

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! On this week’s episode, I chat with Xaquín González Veira who is the Editor of Visuals at the Guardian. Recorded live in Germany at the Dagstuhl Visual Storytelling conference, we talk about all the things... The post Episode #36: Xaquín González Veira appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #35: Irene Ros

If you haven’t heard, OpenVisConf 2016 is right around the corner (April 25-26 in Bostom). In its 4th year, OpenVis Conf is a two-day, single track conference centered around the practice of visualizing data on the web. The conference features... The post Episode #35: Irene Ros appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #34: Dominikus Baur

This week, I’m pleased to welcome Dominikus Baur to the program. Mobile interaction designer and developer, Dominikus creates usable, aesthetic, and responsive visualizations for all platforms. His latest project, Subspotting, logged the cell phoe reception of New York City’s four... The post Episode #34: Dominikus Baur appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #33: Chris Parmer from Plotly

In this week’s episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I speak to Chris Parmer, Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Plotly, the online data visualization and analytics firm. Chris and I talk about Plotly’s tool, their business model, open source data... The post Episode #33: Chris Parmer from Plotly appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #32: Teaching Data Visualization

Welcome back to the show. In this week’s episode, we’re talking about teaching data visualization. What are best practices? Are there great exercises and assignments to give? What should students walk away with at the end of the day, week,... The post Episode #32: Teaching Data Visualization appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #31: Rees & Mushon on DataViz Empathy

A few weeks ago, I attended an interesting one-day workshop on the responsible and ethical use of data in the data visualization field in New York City. The Responsible Data Forum brought together about 35 people to address issues and topics... The post Episode #31: Rees & Mushon on DataViz Empathy appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #30: Jon Acampora from Excel Campus

We turn back to tools this week on the PolicyViz Podcast. I’m pleased to have with me Jon Acampora who runs the very popular Excel Campus website. Jon provides tutorials on VBA, formulas, and many other tools. As an Excel... The post Episode #30: Jon Acampora from Excel Campus appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #29: Discussion on Open Data

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! A special episode this week–a panel discussion, as it were, about open data. This conversation was sparked by a presentation I gave at the 2015 Socrata Customer Summit about the need to make open... The post Episode #29: Discussion on Open Data appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #28: Lynn Cherny

Happy New Year! I hope you had a terrific holiday season and kickoff to the new year. I also hope you’re ready for an exciting year of The PolicyViz Podcast because I’ve got some unbelievable guests lined up for the... The post Episode #28: Lynn Cherny appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #27: Dear Data Wrap-Up

For the final episode in 2015, I’m excited to welcome Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec back to the show to talk about their year of Dear Data, their analog data visualization project. Our conversation is a bit broader than just... The post Episode #27: Dear Data Wrap-Up appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #26: Jim Vallandingham

Very excited to welcome Jim Vallandingham to this week’s episode of the podcast. Jim is a Data Visualization and Open Web Engineer at Bocoup. He writes regularly about everything open: code, projects, collaborative tools, building great stuff. In this episode,... The post Episode #26: Jim Vallandingham appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #25: Andy Cotgreave

I’m happy to invite my good friend Andy Cotgreave from Tableau Software to the 25th episode of The PolicyViz Podcast. Andy is the Technical Evangelist at Tableau software and writes and speaks regularly and widely about all things data: how to analyze... The post Episode #25: Andy Cotgreave appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #24: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! This week, I speak with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, who runs the Storytelling with Data blog and whose new book–Storytelling with Data–was just released. I was fortunate enough to get a copy of the book... The post Episode #24: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #23: Arvind Satyanarayan

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! In this week’s episode, I chat with Arvind Satyanarayan, Computer Science PhD candidate at Stanford University, working with Jeff Heer and the Interactive Data Lab. Arvind’s research seeks to lower the threshold for design, with a... The post Episode #23: Arvind Satyanarayan appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #22: Rebecca Williams

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! In this week’s episode, I chat with Rebecca Williams, open data and civic tech guru extraordinaire. Rebecca is on detail at the Office of Management and Budget from her usual job at Data.gov. We... The post Episode #22: Rebecca Williams appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #21: Edward Tufte

On this, the 21st episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I am very excited to welcome Edward Tufte to the show. As you might expect, I was excited to talk with Professor Tufte, so this episode is quite a bit longer than... The post Episode #21: Edward Tufte appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #20: Nigel Holmes

This is a special bonus episode of the PolicyViz Podcast. I was in New Orleans last week for the Presentation Summit and Nigel Holmes kicked things off with his presentation about the role of humor in presentations. Formerly of Time... The post Episode #20: Nigel Holmes appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode #19: Chris Ingraham

In this week’s episode, I’m happy to welcome to the show Chris Ingraham from Wonkblog at the Washington Post. We talk about good and bad data, interesting and unique data, and his process for writing and pulling together great stories.... The post Episode #19: Chris Ingraham appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #18: Tiago Veloso

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I hope you had a great summer! I’m excited to kick off the fall slate of episodes with Tiago Veloso from Visual Loop. Tiago has been curating some of the best data visualization and... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #18: Tiago Veloso appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #17: Alyson Hurt

Episode Number 17! This is the last episode for the summer, folks. Time to take a little break and recharge the batteries. I have a whole new slate of guests scheduled for the fall and I’ll also have a sponsor... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #17: Alyson Hurt appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #16: Justin Grimes

Justin Grimes is a statistician, open data proselytizer, Code for America Brigade leader and all-around fun guy to be around. In this, the 16th episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, Justin and I talk about effective open data strategies, civic technology,... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #16: Justin Grimes appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #15: Aron Pilhofer

The 15th episode of the PolicyViz Podcast features Aron Pilhofer from the Guardian newspaper in the UK. Aron and I talk about how the Guardian is working to deepen reader engagement, measure how readers interact with their content, and how... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #15: Aron Pilhofer appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #14: Ken Melero from Socrata

In this, the 14th episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I speak with Ken Melero, Director of Federal at Socrata. Socrata is a cloud-based open data software company that helps local, state, and federal governments open their data and make those data... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #14: Ken Melero from Socrata appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #13: Mathematica Policy Research

In this episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I speak with Adam Coyne and Jennifer de Vallance from Mathematica Policy Research. MPR conducts policy and economic research to improve public well-being by bringing the highest standards of quality, objectivity, and excellence... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #13: Mathematica Policy Research appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #12: Scott Klein

Welcome to Episode #11 of the PolicyVIz Podcast! This week, I’m excited to welcome Scott Klein, Assistant Managing Editor at ProPublica. Scott and his team do really exciting work with data, by presenting large datasets with journalism. That is, they... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #12: Scott Klein appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #11: Mico Yuk

In this week’s episode, I speak with author, speaker, and dashboard expert Mico Yuk. Mico is co-founder and partner at BI Brainz, author of the book Data Visualization for Dummies, and leads business intelligence dashboard trainings around the world. In this... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #11: Mico Yuk appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #10: Dave Bruns

When it comes to creating visualizations with your data, it’s not the tool that “makes” things, it’s the user. I’ve heard lots of people say that Excel makes terrible data visualizations. It’s true that 3D cones and 3D exploding pie... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #10: Dave Bruns appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #9: Scott Murray

What’s the best way to teach data visualization? How do you mix theory and practical applications? What tool or tools should you teach: Tableau, Excel, d3, Processing, something else? Scott Murray, Assistant Professor of Design at the University of San... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #9: Scott Murray appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #8: Nick Diakopoulos

In this week’s episode, I chat with Nick Diakopoulos from the University of Maryland at College Park. Nick recently co-hosted an event on algorithmic transparency at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. Nick and I chat about algorithms... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #8: Nick Diakopoulos appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #7: Rob Simmon

In this week’s episode, I speak with color-guru Rob Simmon from Planet Labs. If you don’t know Rob, you should absolutely read is famous 6-part series on color hosted at the Visual.ly blog. Nowadays, Rob is busy launching satellites and... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #7: Rob Simmon appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #6: DeepLab

In the previous episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I spoke with Maral Pourkazemi about the DeepLab project. That discussion was so interesting, we pulled in instigator Addie Wagenknecht to talk more about the project, its future, and what it means... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #6: DeepLab appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #5: Maral Pourkazemi

There are important and consequential issues to discuss when it comes to technological differences and disparities across different groups such as gender, race, ethnicities, or differences across countries. In this, the fifth episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I speak with Maral... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #5: Maral Pourkazemi appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #4: Ben Casselman

We’ve seen some big changes in data driven journalism over the past year or so with new media companies like 538, Vox, and the Upshot launching. In this fourth episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I speak with Ben Casselman, Chief... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #4: Ben Casselman appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #3: Eric Klotz and Visualized

Thanks so much for tuning into the first two episodes of the PolicyViz Podcast. On this week’s episode, I welcome Eric Klotz, founder of Visualized, to discuss the challenges and excitement around data visualization conferences. Eric and I have been... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #3: Eric Klotz and Visualized appeared first on PolicyViz.

PolicyViz Podcast Episode #2: Dear Data

On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I speak with Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec about their current project, Dear Data. If you haven’t seen it, Dear Data is a year-long analog project in which Giorgia and Stephanie collect their... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #2: Dear Data appeared first on PolicyViz.

The PolicyViz Podcast

Welcome to the PolicyViz Podcast! That’s right, I’m moving my random audio blob posts to a more structured podcast. In these podcasts, I will chat with my guests primarily about data visualization, presentation skills, and presentation design. I’m also hoping... The post The PolicyViz Podcast appeared first on PolicyViz.