The Policyviz Podcast

Welcome to the final episode of The PolicyViz Podcast of 2016! Across 39 episodes this year, we’ve covered open data, data visualization, data workflow issues, presentation skills and design, and more! Thank you for tuning in each week! Your support... The post Episode #68: Randy Olson appeared first on PolicyViz.

Thanks for tuning in to this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast! This week, I talk with Wilson Andrews, Graphics Editor at the New York Times. In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, Wilson and I talk about polling,... The post Episode #67: Wilson Andrews appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! I’m back after a couple of weeks off–first, taking a break for the Thanksgiving holiday, and then to iron out some bugs with the new PolicyViz website. On this week’s show, I chat with... The post Episode #66: Randy Krum appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the show! I’m super excited to chat with Nadieh Bremer on this week’s show. Nadieh is an astronomer by training who came to love data visualization. (Does anyone come to data visualization directly??). Her projects include web-based interactive... The post Episode #65: Nadieh Bremer appeared first on PolicyViz.

On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Kim Rees, who is Co-founder and Head of Visualization at the data visualization firm Periscopic. You may know Kim from her great work at Periscopic, her talk at the... The post Episode #64: Kim Rees appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! With my book on presentations about to launch, I’m very excited to talk with one of the authors who inspired my work in this area, Garr Reynolds. If you’ve ever thought carefully about how... The post Episode #62: Garr Reynolds appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. On this week’s show, I chat with Stephanie Evergreen whose new book on data visualization, Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data, was released in May. In this week’s episode, Stephanie and I... The post Episode #63: Stephanie Evergreen appeared first on PolicyViz.

On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I’m pleased to chat with Drew Skau and Robert Kosara, who co-authored a couple of papers on how we perceive the quantities in pie charts. Their work centers on how do we perceive quantities... The post Episode #61: Drew Skau & Robert Kosara appeared first on PolicyViz.

On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I’m pleased to welcome Evan Sinar to the show. Evan is the Chief Scientist and Vice President at Development Dimensions International (DDI) in Pittsburgh. Evan is a Industrial and Organizational Psychologist (I/O Psych)... The post Episode #60: Evan Sinar appeared first on PolicyViz.

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.