Data Stories

By Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner

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A podcast on data and how it affects our lives — with Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner

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12.12.2022 169 \| Data Conversations with Vidya Setlur 169 \| Data Conversations with Vidya Setlur
11.21.2022 168 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS'22 with Tamara Munzner 168 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS'22 with Tamara Munzner
10.06.2022 167 \| Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman 167 \| Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman
09.09.2022 166 \| Catching up with Amanda Makulec 166 \| Catching up with Amanda Makulec
09.08.2022 999 \| Announcement: Data Stories is back! 999 \| Announcement: Data Stories is back!
07.21.2021 165 \| Data Visualization Accessibility with Sarah Fossheim 165 \| Data Visualization Accessibility with Sarah Fossheim
03.09.2021 164 \| Edward Tufte's complete work with Sandra Rendgen 164 \| Edward Tufte's complete work with Sandra Rendgen
12.14.2020 163 \| svelte.js for web-based dataviz with Amelia Wattenberger 163 \| svelte.js for web-based dataviz with Amelia Wattenberger
11.11.2020 162 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS'20 with Miriah Meyer and Danielle Szafir 162 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS'20 with Miriah Meyer and Danielle Szafir
06.03.2020 161 \| People of the Pandemic with Shirley Wu 161 \| People of the Pandemic with Shirley Wu
05.20.2020 160 \| Visualizing COVID-19 with Carl Bergstrom 160 \| Visualizing COVID-19 with Carl Bergstrom
04.16.2020 159 \| Viz Agencies: Dataveyes and Accurat 159 \| Viz Agencies: Dataveyes and Accurat
04.02.2020 158 \| Viz Agencies: CLEVER°FRANKE and Interactive Things 158 \| Viz Agencies: CLEVER°FRANKE and Interactive Things
03.19.2020 157 \| Spatial Thinking with Barbara Tversky 157 \| Spatial Thinking with Barbara Tversky
03.05.2020 156 \| Visualizing Fairness in Machine Learning with Yongsu Ahn and Alex Cabrera 156 \| Visualizing Fairness in Machine Learning with Yongsu Ahn and Alex Cabrera
02.13.2020 155 \| Flourish with Duncan Clark Duncan is the CEO of Flourish, a popular data visualization tool to help people create storytelling visualizations from data. Duncan founded Flourish together with Robin Houston in 2016 and since then they made a lot of progress and acquired a ...
01.30.2020 154 \| Visualizing Global Warming with IPCC with Angela Morelli and Tom Gabriel Johansen 154 \| Visualizing Global Warming with IPCC with Angela Morelli and Tom Gabriel Johansen
01.15.2020 153 \| Data Art and Visual Programming with Marcin Ignac from Variable 153 \| Data Art and Visual Programming with Marcin Ignac from Variable
12.19.2019 152 \| Year in Review 2019 152 \| Year in Review 2019
12.04.2019 151 \| Future Data Interfaces with David Sheldon-Hicks 151 \| Future Data Interfaces with David Sheldon-Hicks
11.20.2019 150 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS'19 with Tamara Munzner and Robert Kosara 150 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS'19 with Tamara Munzner and Robert Kosara
11.05.2019 149 \| xkcd or the art of data storytelling with web cartoons Randall Munroe is the mastermind behind the xkcd webcomics which have zillions of fans around the globe. In his stick figure cartoons and hilarious mini-stories, he comments on complicated scientific issues. Over the years, Randall has also created a number ...
10.23.2019 148 \| Cognitive Science for Data Visualization with Lace Padilla 148 \| Cognitive Science for Data Visualization with Lace Padilla
10.09.2019 147 \| Iconic Climate Visuals with Ed Hawkins We have climate scientist Ed Hawkins on the show to talk about climate visualization. Ed is the person behind the famous Climate Spirals and Climate Stripe visualizations, both of which have a made a huge impact beyond the climate science ...
09.25.2019 146 \| Sweating the details with Nicholas Rougeux We have digital artist Nicholas Rougeux on the show to talk about his beautiful data art projects and the processes he follows. Nicholas created numerous iconic pieces with an extraordinary attention to details, such as "Seeing Music"...
09.11.2019 145 \| FT Data Crunch with Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch We have Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch on the show to talk about their new Financial Times visualization series called Data Crunch. The series features Federica and John having a data-driven conversation about some social or economic trend while aided ...
08.21.2019 144 \| History of Information Graphics with Sandra Rendgen 144 \| History of Information Graphics with Sandra Rendgen
07.31.2019 143 \| The Pudding with Matt Daniels We have Matt Daniels on the show again. He is the CEO of The Pudding, a collective of journalist-engineers that create visual essays that explain ideas debated in culture. Their pieces are incredibly engaging, somewhat witty and always stunning from ...
07.10.2019 Data Is Personal with Evan Peck [Our podcast is fully listener-supported. That’s why you don’t have to listen to ads! Please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or sending us a one-time donation through Paypal. And thank you!] We have Evan Peck on the show to ...
06.19.2019 Sketching and Visual Thinking with Eva-Lotta Lamm [Our podcast is fully listener-supported. That’s why you don’t have to listen to ads! Please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or sending us a one-time donation through Paypal. And thank you!] We have Eva-Lotta Lamm joining us to talk ...
05.29.2019 Data Visualization Society We have the founding members of the Data Visualization society on the show to talk about how the project started and what are their plans for the future.
05.08.2019 Immersive Analytics with Tim Dwyer We have Tim Dwyer for Monash University to talk about his work on Immersive Analytics.
04.18.2019 Turning Data into Sound with Hannah Davis We are joined by Hannah Davis, a data visualization and sonification expert, to talk about how data sonification works and how she has gone about making her own amazing sonification projects, which create musical pieces based on data.
03.28.2019 137 \| Visualizing Earth with Cameron Beccario We are joined by Cameron Beccario who created the immensely impressive Earth visualization.
03.07.2019 Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration with Pedro Cruz and John Wihbey We have Pedro Cruz and John Wihbey on the show to talk about their beautiful project, the Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration.
02.12.2019 135 \| The "Dashboard Conspiracy" with Lyn Bartram and Alper Sarikaya We have Lyn Bartram of Simon Fraser University and Alper Sarikaya of Microsoft Power BI on the show to talk about an exciting research project they developed to better understand dashboards.
01.19.2019 134 \| Visualizing Uncertainty with Jessica Hullman and Matthew Kay Jessica Hullman and Matthew Kay join us to discuss the how and why of visualizing information uncertainty.
12.19.2018 133 \| Year Review 2018 Here we go! Another year has passed and lots has happened in the data visualization world.
12.06.2018 132 \| A New Generation of DataViz Tools We have Andy Kirk on the show to talk about a new generation of data visualization tools.
11.21.2018 131 \| Peak Spotting 131 \| Peak Spotting
11.08.2018 130 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS 2018 130 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS 2018
10.25.2018 129 \| Views of the World with Robert Simmon We have Robert Simmon from Planet Labs on the show to talk about satellite imagery and data visualization.
10.09.2018 128 \| Visual Perception and Visualization with Steve Haroz We have Steve Haroz on the show to talk about visual perception in visualization.
09.26.2018 127 \| Storytelling with Data with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic We have Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic on the show to talk about her work in visual storytelling.
09.12.2018 126 \| FlowingData with Nathan Yau Nathan Yau joins us on the show to talk about his blog Flowing Data.
08.08.2018 125 \| Researching the Boundaries of InfoVis with Sheelagh Carpendale Sheelagh Carpendale is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary, where she leads the Innovations in Visualization (InnoVis) research group.
07.18.2018 124 \| Xenographics with Maarten Lambrechts Maarten Lambrechts joins us to talk about his Xenographics project: a growing collection of "unusual charts and maps."
07.03.2018 123 \| Touch Graphics with Steve Landau We have on the show Steve Landau, the founder of Touch Graphics, a company dedicated to making information visualization accessible to blind and visually impaired people.
06.20.2018 122 \| Visualizing Climate Change Scenarios with Boris Müller We have Prof. Boris Müller from FH Potsdam on the show to discuss the SENSES research project, which visualizes climate change scenarios.
06.06.2018 121 \| Declarative Visualization with Vega-Lite and Altair with Dominik Moritz, Jacob Vanderplas, Kanit “Ham” Wongsuphasawat We have Dominik Moritz, Jacob Vanderplas, and Kanit “Ham” Wongsuphasawat on the show to talk about Vega-Lite and Altair.

Older episodes

12.12.2022 169 \| Data Conversations with Vidya Setlur 169 \| Data Conversations with Vidya Setlur
11.21.2022 168 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS'22 with Tamara Munzner 168 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS'22 with Tamara Munzner
10.06.2022 167 \| Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman 167 \| Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman
09.09.2022 166 \| Catching up with Amanda Makulec 166 \| Catching up with Amanda Makulec
09.08.2022 999 \| Announcement: Data Stories is back! 999 \| Announcement: Data Stories is back!
07.21.2021 165 \| Data Visualization Accessibility with Sarah Fossheim 165 \| Data Visualization Accessibility with Sarah Fossheim
03.09.2021 164 \| Edward Tufte's complete work with Sandra Rendgen 164 \| Edward Tufte's complete work with Sandra Rendgen
12.14.2020 163 \| svelte.js for web-based dataviz with Amelia Wattenberger 163 \| svelte.js for web-based dataviz with Amelia Wattenberger
11.11.2020 162 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS'20 with Miriah Meyer and Danielle Szafir 162 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS'20 with Miriah Meyer and Danielle Szafir
06.03.2020 161 \| People of the Pandemic with Shirley Wu 161 \| People of the Pandemic with Shirley Wu
05.20.2020 160 \| Visualizing COVID-19 with Carl Bergstrom 160 \| Visualizing COVID-19 with Carl Bergstrom
04.16.2020 159 \| Viz Agencies: Dataveyes and Accurat 159 \| Viz Agencies: Dataveyes and Accurat
04.02.2020 158 \| Viz Agencies: CLEVER°FRANKE and Interactive Things 158 \| Viz Agencies: CLEVER°FRANKE and Interactive Things
03.19.2020 157 \| Spatial Thinking with Barbara Tversky 157 \| Spatial Thinking with Barbara Tversky
03.05.2020 156 \| Visualizing Fairness in Machine Learning with Yongsu Ahn and Alex Cabrera 156 \| Visualizing Fairness in Machine Learning with Yongsu Ahn and Alex Cabrera
02.13.2020 155 \| Flourish with Duncan Clark Duncan is the CEO of Flourish, a popular data visualization tool to help people create storytelling visualizations from data. Duncan founded Flourish together with Robin Houston in 2016 and since then they made a lot of progress and acquired a ...
01.30.2020 154 \| Visualizing Global Warming with IPCC with Angela Morelli and Tom Gabriel Johansen 154 \| Visualizing Global Warming with IPCC with Angela Morelli and Tom Gabriel Johansen
01.15.2020 153 \| Data Art and Visual Programming with Marcin Ignac from Variable 153 \| Data Art and Visual Programming with Marcin Ignac from Variable
12.19.2019 152 \| Year in Review 2019 152 \| Year in Review 2019
12.04.2019 151 \| Future Data Interfaces with David Sheldon-Hicks 151 \| Future Data Interfaces with David Sheldon-Hicks
11.20.2019 150 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS'19 with Tamara Munzner and Robert Kosara 150 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS'19 with Tamara Munzner and Robert Kosara
11.05.2019 149 \| xkcd or the art of data storytelling with web cartoons Randall Munroe is the mastermind behind the xkcd webcomics which have zillions of fans around the globe. In his stick figure cartoons and hilarious mini-stories, he comments on complicated scientific issues. Over the years, Randall has also created a number ...
10.23.2019 148 \| Cognitive Science for Data Visualization with Lace Padilla 148 \| Cognitive Science for Data Visualization with Lace Padilla
10.09.2019 147 \| Iconic Climate Visuals with Ed Hawkins We have climate scientist Ed Hawkins on the show to talk about climate visualization. Ed is the person behind the famous Climate Spirals and Climate Stripe visualizations, both of which have a made a huge impact beyond the climate science ...
09.25.2019 146 \| Sweating the details with Nicholas Rougeux We have digital artist Nicholas Rougeux on the show to talk about his beautiful data art projects and the processes he follows. Nicholas created numerous iconic pieces with an extraordinary attention to details, such as "Seeing Music"...
09.11.2019 145 \| FT Data Crunch with Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch We have Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch on the show to talk about their new Financial Times visualization series called Data Crunch. The series features Federica and John having a data-driven conversation about some social or economic trend while aided ...
08.21.2019 144 \| History of Information Graphics with Sandra Rendgen 144 \| History of Information Graphics with Sandra Rendgen
07.31.2019 143 \| The Pudding with Matt Daniels We have Matt Daniels on the show again. He is the CEO of The Pudding, a collective of journalist-engineers that create visual essays that explain ideas debated in culture. Their pieces are incredibly engaging, somewhat witty and always stunning from ...
07.10.2019 Data Is Personal with Evan Peck [Our podcast is fully listener-supported. That’s why you don’t have to listen to ads! Please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or sending us a one-time donation through Paypal. And thank you!] We have Evan Peck on the show to ...
06.19.2019 Sketching and Visual Thinking with Eva-Lotta Lamm [Our podcast is fully listener-supported. That’s why you don’t have to listen to ads! Please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or sending us a one-time donation through Paypal. And thank you!] We have Eva-Lotta Lamm joining us to talk ...
05.29.2019 Data Visualization Society We have the founding members of the Data Visualization society on the show to talk about how the project started and what are their plans for the future.
05.08.2019 Immersive Analytics with Tim Dwyer We have Tim Dwyer for Monash University to talk about his work on Immersive Analytics.
04.18.2019 Turning Data into Sound with Hannah Davis We are joined by Hannah Davis, a data visualization and sonification expert, to talk about how data sonification works and how she has gone about making her own amazing sonification projects, which create musical pieces based on data.
03.28.2019 137 \| Visualizing Earth with Cameron Beccario We are joined by Cameron Beccario who created the immensely impressive Earth visualization.
03.07.2019 Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration with Pedro Cruz and John Wihbey We have Pedro Cruz and John Wihbey on the show to talk about their beautiful project, the Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration.
02.12.2019 135 \| The "Dashboard Conspiracy" with Lyn Bartram and Alper Sarikaya We have Lyn Bartram of Simon Fraser University and Alper Sarikaya of Microsoft Power BI on the show to talk about an exciting research project they developed to better understand dashboards.
01.19.2019 134 \| Visualizing Uncertainty with Jessica Hullman and Matthew Kay Jessica Hullman and Matthew Kay join us to discuss the how and why of visualizing information uncertainty.
12.19.2018 133 \| Year Review 2018 Here we go! Another year has passed and lots has happened in the data visualization world.
12.06.2018 132 \| A New Generation of DataViz Tools We have Andy Kirk on the show to talk about a new generation of data visualization tools.
11.21.2018 131 \| Peak Spotting 131 \| Peak Spotting
11.08.2018 130 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS 2018 130 \| Highlights from IEEE VIS 2018
10.25.2018 129 \| Views of the World with Robert Simmon We have Robert Simmon from Planet Labs on the show to talk about satellite imagery and data visualization.
10.09.2018 128 \| Visual Perception and Visualization with Steve Haroz We have Steve Haroz on the show to talk about visual perception in visualization.
09.26.2018 127 \| Storytelling with Data with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic We have Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic on the show to talk about her work in visual storytelling.
09.12.2018 126 \| FlowingData with Nathan Yau Nathan Yau joins us on the show to talk about his blog Flowing Data.
08.08.2018 125 \| Researching the Boundaries of InfoVis with Sheelagh Carpendale Sheelagh Carpendale is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary, where she leads the Innovations in Visualization (InnoVis) research group.
07.18.2018 124 \| Xenographics with Maarten Lambrechts Maarten Lambrechts joins us to talk about his Xenographics project: a growing collection of "unusual charts and maps."
07.03.2018 123 \| Touch Graphics with Steve Landau We have on the show Steve Landau, the founder of Touch Graphics, a company dedicated to making information visualization accessible to blind and visually impaired people.
06.20.2018 122 \| Visualizing Climate Change Scenarios with Boris Müller We have Prof. Boris Müller from FH Potsdam on the show to discuss the SENSES research project, which visualizes climate change scenarios.
06.06.2018 121 \| Declarative Visualization with Vega-Lite and Altair with Dominik Moritz, Jacob Vanderplas, Kanit “Ham” Wongsuphasawat We have Dominik Moritz, Jacob Vanderplas, and Kanit “Ham” Wongsuphasawat on the show to talk about Vega-Lite and Altair.

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Data Stories episodes:

169 | Data Conversations with Vidya Setlur

168 | Highlights from IEEE VIS'22 with Tamara Munzner

167 | Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman

166 | Catching up with Amanda Makulec

999 | Announcement: Data Stories is back!

165 | Data Visualization Accessibility with Sarah Fossheim

164 | Edward Tufte's complete work with Sandra Rendgen

163 | svelte.js for web-based dataviz with Amelia Wattenberger

162 | Highlights from IEEE VIS'20 with Miriah Meyer and Danielle Szafir

161 | People of the Pandemic with Shirley Wu

160 | Visualizing COVID-19 with Carl Bergstrom

159 | Viz Agencies: Dataveyes and Accurat

158 | Viz Agencies: CLEVER°FRANKE and Interactive Things

157 | Spatial Thinking with Barbara Tversky

156 | Visualizing Fairness in Machine Learning with Yongsu Ahn and Alex Cabrera

155 | Flourish with Duncan Clark

154 | Visualizing Global Warming with IPCC with Angela Morelli and Tom Gabriel Johansen

153 | Data Art and Visual Programming with Marcin Ignac from Variable

152 | Year in Review 2019

151 | Future Data Interfaces with David Sheldon-Hicks

150 | Highlights from IEEE VIS'19 with Tamara Munzner and Robert Kosara

149 | xkcd or the art of data storytelling with web cartoons

148 | Cognitive Science for Data Visualization with Lace Padilla

147 | Iconic Climate Visuals with Ed Hawkins

146 | Sweating the details with Nicholas Rougeux

145 | FT Data Crunch with Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch

144 | History of Information Graphics with Sandra Rendgen

143 | The Pudding with Matt Daniels

Data Is Personal with Evan Peck

Sketching and Visual Thinking with Eva-Lotta Lamm

Data Visualization Society

Immersive Analytics with Tim Dwyer

Turning Data into Sound with Hannah Davis

137 | Visualizing Earth with Cameron Beccario

Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration with Pedro Cruz and John Wihbey

135 | The "Dashboard Conspiracy" with Lyn Bartram and Alper Sarikaya

134 | Visualizing Uncertainty with Jessica Hullman and Matthew Kay

133 | Year Review 2018

132 | A New Generation of DataViz Tools

131 | Peak Spotting

130 | Highlights from IEEE VIS 2018

129 | Views of the World with Robert Simmon

128 | Visual Perception and Visualization with Steve Haroz

127 | Storytelling with Data with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

126 | FlowingData with Nathan Yau

125 | Researching the Boundaries of InfoVis with Sheelagh Carpendale

124 | Xenographics with Maarten Lambrechts

123 | Touch Graphics with Steve Landau

122 | Visualizing Climate Change Scenarios with Boris Müller

121 | Declarative Visualization with Vega-Lite and Altair with Dominik Moritz, Jacob Vanderplas, Kanit “Ham” Wongsuphasawat