The PolicyViz Podcast

The PolicyViz Podcast episodes:

• 04.11.2024

  Charting New Horizons: Amanda Makulec on Leadership, Community, and the Human Touch Behind DataViz

  Amanda Makulec is the current Executive Director of the Data Visualization Society (DVS), and in this week's episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, we discuss her journey and the DVS's evolution as it approaches its fifth anniversary. Amanda shares her experience...

  
• 03.27.2024

  Tracing the Narrative: The Art of Autographic Design in Data Analysis with Dietmar Offenhuber

  In this week's episode, I chat with Dietmar Offenhuber about his new book, Autographic Design and the concept of autographic data analysis. Dietmar stresses the significance of recognizing the material origins of data and the influence of extraneous variables. He...

  
• 03.13.2024

  Alberto Cairo Unveils 'The Art of Insight': Evolution, Experiences, and Challenges in Data Visualization

  In this week's episode of the podcast, I welcome author, speaker, and professor Alberto Cairo to the show. We discuss his most recent book, The Art of Insight [https://amzn.to/3P2DdTo], and our conversation extends to acquiring reliable data and challenges people...

  
• 02.27.2024

  Graphs, Gadgets, and Clarity: Mastering the Art of Scientific Storytelling in Research Presentation with Maarten Boers

  In this week's episode, we delve into the pivotal role of visual clarity in scientific research. Join me and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology Maarten Boers as we discuss his new book, Data Visualization for Biomedical Scientists. If you are at...

  
• 02.13.2024

  Data for Good: Uniting Georgia's Changemakers with Tommy Pearce from Neighborhood Nexus

  On this week's episode of the podcast, we dive into the transformative work of Neighborhood Nexus, led by Tommy Pierce. This civic data intermediary is making waves in Georgia by harnessing the power of data to create a lasting social...

  
• 02.01.2024

  From Economics to Python-Powered Sports Analytics: Nate Braun's Game-Changing Journey

  On this week's episode of the show, I talk with Nate Braun, author of several Python books, all having to do with sports. Nate shares his journey from having a background in economics to writing books on sports data analysis...

  
• 01.16.2024

  Exploring the Unbound Realms of Information Design with Sheila Pontis & Michael Babwahsingh

  Happy New Year and welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! In this first episode of 2024, I welcome welcome Sheila Pontis and Michael Babwahsingh, authors of the new book Information Design Unbound [https://amzn.to/3UevDJ9]. They delve into the heart of information...

  
• 12.12.2023

  Drawing Data with Kids and Gulrez Khan

  It's the final episode of 2023! I hope you have a great holiday season and a happy new year! Gulrez is a father of three beautiful kids and works as a Data Science Leader in his day job. He has almost...

  
• 11.30.2023

  Tracking Data Visualizations in Congress with Bill Gray

  William Gray is the guy behind Floor Charts, the website and Twitter feed that documents all things graphic in the US Congress. During the day, Bill oversees the strategic communications efforts at R Street [https://www.rstreet.org/people/william-gray/] and manages its growing Communications...

  
• 11.16.2023

  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...

  
• 11.01.2023

  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,...

  
• 10.18.2023

  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...

  
• 10.04.2023

  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...

  
• 09.19.2023

  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...

  
• 07.11.2023

  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...

  
• 07.04.2023

  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...

  
• 06.16.2023

  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...

  
• 06.01.2023

  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...

  
• 05.14.2023

  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 [http://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...

  
• 05.08.2023

  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...

  
• 04.25.2023

  New Tableau add-ins from Tristan Guillevin

  Tristan is a Data Visualization Freelancer [http://www.ladataviz.com/] who likes to combine different techniques to find the best way to represent data. He regularly creates tools [https://tools.ladataviz.com/] and videos [http://www.youtube.com/@ladataviz] to help people build their next projects or level up their...

  
• 04.11.2023

  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...

  
• 03.30.2023

  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 [https://amzn.to/3zcu5mV] (CRC Press) and senior graphics editor at Scientific American, where she art directs and produces illustrated explanatory diagrams and data...

  
• 03.14.2023

  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...

  
• 02.28.2023

  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...

  
• 02.14.2023

  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...

  
• 02.01.2023

  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...

  
• 01.10.2023

  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....

  
• 12.20.2022

  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 [https://amzn.to/3Fwxilk], in 2021.  This is the final podcast episode of...

  
• 12.06.2022

  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,...

  
• 11.22.2022

  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...

  
• 11.09.2022

  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...

  
• 10.25.2022

  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...

  
• 10.11.2022

  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...

  
• 09.27.2022

  Episode #223: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

  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 [https://amzn.to/3Ub6nRf] and best-selling books storytelling with data: let's practice! [https://amzn.to/3Bfo8q0] and storytelling...

  
• 09.20.2022

  Visualizing Text with Richard Brath

  Richard Brath is a long time visualization designer, researcher and strategist. At Uncharted Software [https://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...

  
• 07.06.2022

  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...

  
• 06.21.2022

  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...

  
• 06.09.2022

  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...

  
• 05.24.2022

  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 [http://www.psych.yorku.ca/quantmethods/] at York University, and an Associate Coordinator with the Statistical Consulting Service [http://www.isr.yorku.ca/scs/]. He received his...

  
• 05.04.2022

  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...

  
• 04.19.2022

  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 [https://www.urban.org/]. Her research focuses on developing and assessing the quality of differentially...

  
• 04.05.2022

  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 [https://wapo.st/3m3QTiy]. In this week's episode of...

  
• 03.22.2022

  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...

  
• 03.08.2022

  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 [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-213-elevate-your-dataviz-team/] appeared first on PolicyViz [https://policyviz.com/].

  
• 02.22.2022

  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...

  
• 02.08.2022

  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...

  
• 01.26.2022

  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 [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-210-dr-tyler-morgan-wall/] appeared first on PolicyViz [https://policyviz.com/].

  
• 01.12.2022

  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 [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-209-the-flerlage-twins/]...

  
• 12.28.2021

  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...