The PolicyViz Podcast

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I’m taking a bit of a turn on the show. Instead of talking with people directly creating visualizations or building visualization tools, I talk to two people working in the field of education research... The post Episode #59: Beth Akers and Matt Chingos appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the show! This week, I’m very pleased to be joined by John Burn-Murdoch, Alan Smith, and Martin Stabe from the graphics desk at the Financial Times. Established in 1884, the Financial Times is one of the world’s leading... The post Episode #58: The Financial Times Graphic Desk appeared first on PolicyViz.

On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with the organizers of the DC chapter of the Data+Women Meetup group, Brittany Fong, Julie Kim, Emily Kund, and Erin Simpler. We talk about the current state of the group, challenges... The post Episode #57: Data+Women appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! I hope you had a great, safe summer. To kick off the fall slate of episodes, I’m very excited to welcome Andy Kirk to the show. Andy–as I’m sure you know–runs the popular website Visualisingdata.com,... The post Episode #56: Andy Kirk appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. Number 55 if you’re keeping count. This is the final episode for the summer; I’m going to take some time off from recording, editing, and setting up before coming back in the fall with... The post Episode #55: William Cleveland appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. On this week’s show, I chat with Zan Armstrong (in person, no less!) about her work analyzing and visualizing data. I first met Zan in the spring at the OpenVisConf following her great talk... The post Episode #54: Zan Armstrong appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. Episode #53, if you’re keeping count. On this week’s show, I’m happy to chat with Jen Christiansen, Senior Graphics Editor at Scientific American. We talk about a whole range of issues this week, folks:... The post Episode #53: Jen Christiansen appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the show! As you may know, I’m a big fan of data and research that shows how we do or don’t acquire information. But so much of that research–or purported research, I should say–sits on dubious methods... The post Episode #52: Carmen Simon appeared first on PolicyViz.

I’m very excited to welcome Kennedy Elliott to this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast. Kennedy is a member of the graphics department at the Washington Post and part of the team that recently won a Pulitzer Prize for their... The post Episode #51: Kennedy Elliott appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the show! This week, I’m pleased to have Max Galka join me on the show. Max is a data enthusiast and has created a lot of great visualizations, ranging from such topics as immigration, traffic, and climate... The post Episode #50: Max Galka appeared first on PolicyViz.

This week’s episode was recorded live at NPR in Northeast Washington, DC with Supervising Senior Editor of the NPR Visuals team, Brian Boyer. No, I didn’t get to sit in one of the fancy chairs, but I did get to... The post Episode #49: Brian Boyer appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the show! On this week’s episode, I’m pleased to welcome Rebecca Williams and Eric Reese from the Center for Government Excellence at the Johns Hopkins University. We talk about all things open data, open technology, and how... The post Episode #48: Center for Government Excellence appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast. Thanks for tuning in each week to hear about people doing great work in data, open data, data visualization, and other related fields. In this week’s show, I’m happy to have Isabel Meirelles join... The post Episode #47: Isabel Meirelles appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I’m pleased to welcome Andy Cotgreave and Andy Kriebel to the show this week. Each week, The Andys, as it were, are the primary authors of the Makeover Monday project in which they–and dozens... The post Episode #46: Makeover Monday appeared first on PolicyViz.

I’m pleased to be joined by Seth Blanchard this week on the show. Seth is a Senior Developer on the engineering team of the graphics department at the Washington Post. He helps develop new story forms and smooths development process... The post Episode #45: Seth Blanchard appeared first on PolicyViz.

Recorded along the lovely Boston Harbor (enjoy the outdoor sounds), in this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Lane Harrison, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. We not only talk about Lane’s interesting... The post Episode #44: Lane Harrison appeared first on PolicyViz.

In this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Marie Whittaker from the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED) in Washington, DC. With a small team responsible for providing economic insight to DC’s... The post Episode #43: Marie Whittaker appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. I’m happy to have Ben Jones on the show this week. Ben writes about data visualization on his popular blog Data Remixed and also helps run Tableau Public. Ben is a prolific writer, blogger, speaker,... The post Episode #42: Ben Jones appeared first on PolicyViz.

As everyone knows, Microsoft creates a lot of stuff: software, hardware, services, cloud services, and more. But there is also a group at Microsoft that gets to play around and create cool stuff. In this week’s episode of The PolicyViz... The post Episode #41: Mike Pell appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. This week, I’m pleased to chat with Zach Gemignani, CEO and Founder of Juice Analytics. Juice, a sponsor of the show, helps their customers analyze, visualize, and deliver their data. Their experiences with different clients demonstrates... The post Episode #40: Zach Gemignani appeared first on PolicyViz.

Tomorrow (April 6) marks the first birthday of The PolicyViz Podcast! Thanks so much for continuing to tune in every week; your support makes the show worth doing. And a special thanks to Juice Analytics for sponsoring this and many other... The post Episode #39: Alberto Cairo appeared first on PolicyViz.

I’m pleased to welcome Steven Drucker to the show, who is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research. Steven and I talk about MSR’s new project, SandDance, a browser-based information visualization system that scales to hundreds of thousands of items. You... The post Episode #38: Steven Drucker appeared first on PolicyViz.

On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Sarah Kliff from Vox. Sarah is a Senior Editor at Vox.com and oversees reporting on health and medicine. She previously worked at the Washington Post and Politico. Sarah and I... The post Episode #37: Sarah Kliff appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! On this week’s episode, I chat with Xaquín González Veira who is the Editor of Visuals at the Guardian. Recorded live in Germany at the Dagstuhl Visual Storytelling conference, we talk about all the things... The post Episode #36: Xaquín González Veira appeared first on PolicyViz.

If you haven’t heard, OpenVisConf 2016 is right around the corner (April 25-26 in Bostom). In its 4th year, OpenVis Conf is a two-day, single track conference centered around the practice of visualizing data on the web. The conference features... The post Episode #35: Irene Ros appeared first on PolicyViz.

This week, I’m pleased to welcome Dominikus Baur to the program. Mobile interaction designer and developer, Dominikus creates usable, aesthetic, and responsive visualizations for all platforms. His latest project, Subspotting, logged the cell phoe reception of New York City’s four... The post Episode #34: Dominikus Baur appeared first on PolicyViz.

In this week’s episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I speak to Chris Parmer, Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Plotly, the online data visualization and analytics firm. Chris and I talk about Plotly’s tool, their business model, open source data... The post Episode #33: Chris Parmer from Plotly appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the show. In this week’s episode, we’re talking about teaching data visualization. What are best practices? Are there great exercises and assignments to give? What should students walk away with at the end of the day, week,... The post Episode #32: Teaching Data Visualization appeared first on PolicyViz.

A few weeks ago, I attended an interesting one-day workshop on the responsible and ethical use of data in the data visualization field in New York City. The Responsible Data Forum brought together about 35 people to address issues and topics... The post Episode #31: Rees & Mushon on DataViz Empathy appeared first on PolicyViz.

We turn back to tools this week on the PolicyViz Podcast. I’m pleased to have with me Jon Acampora who runs the very popular Excel Campus website. Jon provides tutorials on VBA, formulas, and many other tools. As an Excel... The post Episode #30: Jon Acampora from Excel Campus appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! A special episode this week–a panel discussion, as it were, about open data. This conversation was sparked by a presentation I gave at the 2015 Socrata Customer Summit about the need to make open... The post Episode #29: Discussion on Open Data appeared first on PolicyViz.

Happy New Year! I hope you had a terrific holiday season and kickoff to the new year. I also hope you’re ready for an exciting year of The PolicyViz Podcast because I’ve got some unbelievable guests lined up for the... The post Episode #28: Lynn Cherny appeared first on PolicyViz.

For the final episode in 2015, I’m excited to welcome Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec back to the show to talk about their year of Dear Data, their analog data visualization project. Our conversation is a bit broader than just... The post Episode #27: Dear Data Wrap-Up appeared first on PolicyViz.

Very excited to welcome Jim Vallandingham to this week’s episode of the podcast. Jim is a Data Visualization and Open Web Engineer at Bocoup. He writes regularly about everything open: code, projects, collaborative tools, building great stuff. In this episode,... The post Episode #26: Jim Vallandingham appeared first on PolicyViz.

I’m happy to invite my good friend Andy Cotgreave from Tableau Software to the 25th episode of The PolicyViz Podcast. Andy is the Technical Evangelist at Tableau software and writes and speaks regularly and widely about all things data: how to analyze... The post Episode #25: Andy Cotgreave appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! This week, I speak with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, who runs the Storytelling with Data blog and whose new book–Storytelling with Data–was just released. I was fortunate enough to get a copy of the book... The post Episode #24: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post Episode #23: Arvind Satyanarayan appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post Episode #22: Rebecca Williams appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post Episode #21: Edward Tufte appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post Episode #20: Nigel Holmes appeared first on PolicyViz.

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.... The post Episode #19: Chris Ingraham appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #18: Tiago Veloso appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #17: Alyson Hurt appeared first on PolicyViz.

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,... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #16: Justin Grimes appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #15: Aron Pilhofer appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #14: Ken Melero from Socrata appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #13: Mathematica Policy Research appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #12: Scott Klein appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #11: Mico Yuk appeared first on PolicyViz.

When it comes to creating visualizations with your data, it’s not the tool that “makes” things, it’s the user. I’ve heard lots of people say that Excel makes terrible data visualizations. It’s true that 3D cones and 3D exploding pie... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #10: Dave Bruns appeared first on PolicyViz.