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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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