The PolicyViz Podcast

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...

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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...

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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...

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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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