Hi everyone,

We have graphic editors Mike Bostock and Shan Carter in this dense and long episode. It’s great to finally have someone from the New York Times!

We talk about many practical and more philosophical aspects of publishing interactive visualizations on the web. We also spend quite some time discussing the past, present and future of D3.js.

(On a side note: apologies for starting a bit abruptly and for the weird noises. Enrico was desperately and unsuccessfully trying to find a quiet and calm spot at the CHI conference.)

Take Care,

P.S. Many thanks to all of you guys who sent us Twitter questions for Mike and Shan.

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Episode Chapters

00:00:00 Intro

Links to discussed NYT projects

• Xenographics with Maarten Lambrechts
• svelte.js for web-based dataviz with Amelia Wattenberger

Hi all,

We have two fantastic guests to talk about using visualization for the good. We actually decided to make it even bigger and provokingly titled it: can visualization save the world?

We have on stage: Kim Rees co-founder of Periscopic, a data visualization company guided by the motto: “do good with data,” and Jake Porway, founder of Data Kind, an organization that brings together data scientists and social organizations.

We discuss the challenges of working in this world of big data opportunities and the risks and potentially negative implications of using big data.

Chapters

00:00:00 Intro, welcome to our guests Kim Rees (Periscopic) and Jake Porway (Datakind)

Links

• Data Visualization at Capital One with Kim Rees and Steph Hay

Hi all,

In this episode we talk about maps and map technology. How it evolved and revolutionized the way we think about geography. We have Michal Migurski with us! He is former technology head at Stamen and creator of multiple successful visualizations libraries and tools like Modest Maps and Crimespotting.

Episode Chapters

00:00:00 Intro

Links

Stamen’s Projects

The Atlantic’s article on maps: 12 Fresh Ideas for Transforming the Places We Live With Open Data

Tools and Frameworks

Recent Mike’s Projects

Others

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Lots of links! Have fun with maps

Hi Folks,

We have Santiago Ortiz with us today. Santiago has an impressive array of data visualization projects he has been pouring out during the last year and a very unique style. See for yourself in his portfolio website: http://moebio.com/. We talk about the Tapestry Conference, mathematics, the business of data visualization and much much more. Enjoy it!

Chapters

00:00:00 Start

Episode’s Links

Tapestry Conference

Santiago and his work

Processing library

Vis people with math background

Hilbert Curves and Vis

What can we say? One year has passed and it looks crazy we have been doing this thing for a whole year: 18 whole episodes. Thanks a lot everyone for your encouragements and numerous comments and suggestions. And big thanks to all the people who participated!

In this episode we review the whole set of posts and comment on them trying to see how they look like from a distance now that some time has passed.

If you have any suggestions on stuff you would like to see in DS in the next year LET US KNOW!

Chapters:

00:00:00 Happy Birthday Data Stories!

Hi,

In this episode we talk about Data Sculptures, also known as Physical Visualization. We invite Pierre Dragicevic and Yvonne Jansen (from the Aviz Lab at INRIA in Paris) to talk about their experiments with physical bar charts and their fantastic collections of physical visualizations.

Pierre and Yvonne give several demos you can see on our recorded video. Make sure you don’t miss Pierre giving a real-time demo of Jacques Bertin’s reorderable matrix!

Episode Chapters

Links:

Happy New Year Friends!

We invited a few experts in a Google Hangout to discuss what was big in 2012 and what will happen in 2013. We have Andrew Vande Moere from Infosthetics, Andy Kirk from Visualisingdata and Bryan Connor from The Why Axis.

Chapters Breakdown:

00:00:00 Intro

Mentioned Links:

d3

Democratization of infographics

Visualization as a tool for communication

The human touch

Narratives

Snow Fall

Less blogging?

Santiago Ortiz

emoto

Realtime data visualization

Reaching wider audiences

Conferences

Simon Scarr

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Have fun and Happy New Year!!!

• Data Vis Around the World in 2016

Hi all,

We got Robert Kosara on Data Stories for this episode. Robert is the editor of eagereyes.org, one of the most respected and well-known data visualization blogs in the Internet. He is known for his controversial and informative posts and his “academic” style (some people say :)).

But Roberts, as he says in the show, wears many hats. He was a Professor of Computer Science at UNC Charlotte until recently when he surprisingly moved to Tableau after being tenured.

In the show we talk about his choice and many other things: viz research, blogging, Tableau, etc. See the episode breakdown below.

And, as usual, have fun!

Enrico & Moritz

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00:00:00 Enrico and Moritz catching up

Hi there,

We just finished recording the hangout. 10 people joined it and some more followed the stream off-line. If you wanted to participate and you could not — we are sorry but there is a limit of maximum 10 people imposed by Google.

We really enjoyed the hangout and it was a fantastic experiment full of interesting questions and comments.

Among others, we had Kim Rees from Periscopic, Benjamin Wiederkehr from Interactive Things, Santiago Ortiz, Stephen Boyd, Miska Knapek, Wes Grubbs from Pitch Interactive, Karen Doore from UT Dallas, Yuri Engelhardt and Jim Vallandingham on the show… Quite a mixture!

Unfortunately, as with any experiment, something can go wrong and it went wrong: we totally screwed up the video part by having Benjamin Wiederkehr in focus all the time instead of switching between the participants. For this reason we turned down the video part and kept the audio. The gist is still there!

We’ll hopefully get it right the next time

Enrico & Mo.

Hey Folks!

I managed to grab a couple of buddies at VisWeek and record a (low audio quality – sorry) episode with some on-the-spot comments. Andrew Vande Moere (infosthetics.com) and Jerome Cukier joined me to have some fun and indulge in some gossiping.

A few papers we mention in the episode (may be not complete):

Have fun! And hey … big big thank yous to all the data stories listeners who stopped me to say hi. I loved it!

-Enrico.

P.S. Moritz was not there and lots of people asked me about him. What can I do? Just let him know how much you want to see him (he will hate me for writing this ;))!

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