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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 applying models in the pharmaceutical and diagnostic industries for over 18 years. Max has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics. He, and Kjell Johnson, wrote the book Applied Predictive Modeling, which won the Ziegel award from the American Statistical Association, which recognizes the best book reviewed in Technometrics in 2015. Their second book, Feature Engineering and Selection, was published in 2019 and his book with Julia Silge, Tidy Models with R, was published in 2022.Episode NotesWebsite at RStudio: https://www.rstudio.com/authors/max-kuhn/Twitter: https://twitter.com/topeposGithub: https://github.com/topepo R Packages:autoMLcaretQuartoRMarkdowntidymodelstidyverseBooks from Max:Tidy Modeling with R: A Framework for Modeling in the TidyverseApplied Predicti

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 as President of the Information Architecture Institute, co-chair of Information Architecture Summit, and Executive Producer of the I.D.E.A Conference. Abby is a founding faculty member of School of Visual Arts’ Products of Design graduate program. She also managed the team that helped Rosenfeld Media to start both the Design Operations Summit and Advancing Research Conference. Her most proud achievement is having come up with the idea for World Information Architecture Day, bringing accessibly priced education to thousands in their local communities annually. In addition to running events, you may have seen her presenting her work on stage at: Blend, Business to Buttons, Confab, Creative Mornings, Designing for Digital, EdUI, EMACTL, EuroIA, Generate, GIAN

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 loves text analysis, making beautiful charts, and communicating about technical topics with diverse audiences.xEpisode Noteshttps://juliasilge.com/https://www.tidymodels.org/https://www.tmwr.org/https://smltar.com/https://vetiver.rstudio.com/Related EpisodesEpisode #207: Tom Mock Episode #201: Leland WilkinsonEpisode #69: Hadley WickhamEpisode #212: Cedric SchereriTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeNew Ways to Support the Show!With more than 200 guests and eight seasons of episodes, the PolicyViz Podcast is one of the longest-running data visualization podcasts around. You can support the show by downloading and listening, following the work of my guests, and sharing the show with your networks. I’m grateful to everyone who liste

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 worried that they didn’t really know if they were doing it well. In the process of trying to answer that question, Pieta got a Masters in Education and a PhD in Social Policy, and became an evaluator.Pieta has been an evaluator for over fifteen years, the past five of those as a consultant helping mission-based organizations use evaluation to build better and more effective programs. She believes that evaluation isn’t a test, it’s an ongoing process of trying things, measuring the results, and making adjustments. Her goal is to help build organizational cultures that thrive on joyful accountability and doing important work well.Pieta is known for explaining complicated things clearly, an emphasis on ethics and justice in evaluation, an understanding of how not-for-prof

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 and best-selling books storytelling with data: let’s practice! and storytelling with data: a data visualization guide for business professionals, which has been translated into a dozen languages, used as a textbook by more than 100 universities and serves as the course book for tens of thousands of SWD workshop participants. For more than a decade, Cole and her team have delivered interactive learning sessions sought after by data-minded individuals, companies, and philanthropic organizations all over the world. They also help people create graphs that make sense and weave them into compelling stories through the popular SWD community, blog, podcast and videos.Episode NotesStorytelling with DataStorytelling with YouBooksStorytelling with You: Plan, Create, and Deliver a Stellar PresentationStorytelling with Data: Let’s Practice! Storytelling w

Richard Brath is a long time visualization designer, researcher and strategist. At 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 use by hundreds of thousands of users around the world every day.Richard is also actively involved with the visualization research community, and has authored two books on data visualization: Graph Analysis and Visualization, together with David Jonker (Wiley 2015); and Visualizing with Text (AK Peters, 2020). Richard’s personal blog on visualization is at richardbrath.wordpress.com and he is on Twitter @rkbrath.Episode NotesVisualizing with Text Book companion siteThe textual hierarchical table of contents to CyclopaediaRelated EpisodesEpisode #205: Steve Franconeri and Jen Christiansen a VisComm WorkshopEpisode # 199: Miriah MeyerEpisode # 198: Scott BerkuniTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle Podcasts

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 every newsroom job (including paper delivery) before landing in data visualization, where she very happily manages a team of ten amazing developer-designers to make news every day.This week’s episode marks the Season 8 finale! I’ll be back in the fall with more great episodes from data visualization and data communication experts and enthusiasts. Thanks to everyone who listened and supported the show this past year. And thanks to the team of folks who help me put it together–from sound and video editing to design to marketing to transcription. If you’d like to keep up with me and learn more about how to effectively communicate your work, check out my newsletter or my Winno community (where, next week, I’ll be giving away a bunch of great books!). Episode

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 several popular websites and tools: Discover Quickly, a way to find new music very, very fast; an e-bike finder for New York City; and a spreadsheet-based period tracker for people with periods who want to own their own data. Episode Notes Aliza on Twitter NYT COVID trackerNYT: Voices of a Grieving NationNYT: How America Lost One Million PeopleNYT: 1 Million Deaths, 13 Last MessagesNYT: Podcast Voices NYT: When a Search Crosses the LineNYT: How China Spreads its Propaganda Version of Life in Xinjiang Washington Post: Cut ShortThe Daily PodcastLoud Numbers Podcast Svelte Related Episodes Episode #194: Charlie Smart iTunes Spotify Stitcher

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 the Flourish team and how they keep up with current trends, what the Canva acquisition means, and what the future looks like.Episode NotesDuncan Clark | Website | TwitterCanvaFlourish Draw the line template Bar chart races template SDK (Github)Mike BostockThe Guardian, Data VisualizationsMarimekko Charts – Video from the One Chart at a Time seriesJohn Burn-Murdoch on ObservableiTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeNew Ways to Support the Show!With more than 200 guests and eight seasons of epis

Michael Friendly is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Professor of Psychology, founding Chair of the graduate program in Quantitative Methods at York University, and an Associate Coordinator with the Statistical Consulting Service. He received his doctorate in Psychology from Princeton University, specializing in Psychometrics and Cognitive Psychology.In addition to his research interests in psychology, Professor Friendly has broad experience in data analysis, statistics, and computer applications. He is the author of Discrete Data Analysis with R: Visualization and Modeling Techniques four Categorical and Count Data. He is also the author of SAS for Statistical Graphics, 1st Edition and Visualizing Categorical Data, both published by SAS Institute, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and Statistical Science His recent work includes the further development of graphical methods for categorical data and multivariate linear models, as well as work on

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 world. Since 2005, she has been recognized as a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP for her contributions to the presentation community. Julie enjoys teaching others at industry conferences, including the Presentation Summit and the Present to Succeed conference. She served as a founding director of the Presentation Guild and cohost of the Inspired by Design webinar series, exclusively for Guild members. A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP since 2000, Echo Swinford began her PowerPoint career in 1997. She holds a master’s degree in new media from Indiana University and is the owner of Echosvoice, a PowerPoint consulting firm specializing in custom template development, presentation creation, makeovers and cleanup, and training fo

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. Her research focuses on developing and assessing the quality of differentially private data synthesis methods and science communication. She holds a BS in mathematics and physics from Idaho State University and an MS and PhD in statistics from the University of Notre Dame. After completing her PhD, she worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she investigated cosmic ray effects on supercomputers.In 2021, the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies identified her as an emerging leader in statistics for her “contributions to the development and broad dissemination of Statistics and Data Science methods and concepts, particularly in the emerging field of Data Privacy, and for leadership of technical initiatives, professional development activities, and educational programs.”Episode NotesClaire on TwitterClaire at the Urban

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.In this week’s episode of the show, Philip and I talk about his work at the Post, and dealing with all of the haters. We also talk about his work using data in the media and starting his new newsletter. Be sure to check out my new Winno community! Get great dataviz tips and tricks to your phone every week!Episode NotesPhilip Bump | Washington Post | TwitterHow to Read This Chart newsletterMentioned articles: Can Google searches predict where coronavirus cases will soon emerge? At the end of the second year of the pandemic, the effects are more obviously partisan than ever Which is easier in your state: Buying a rifle or voting?Adobe Creative CloudPerlRAWGraphsiTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle Podcasts

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 post Episode #214: Karla Starr appeared first on PolicyViz.

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 appeared first on PolicyViz.

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 post Episode #212: Dr. Cedric Scherer appeared first on PolicyViz.

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 and human-computer...The post Episode #211: Jock D. Mackinlay appeared first on PolicyViz.

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 appeared first on PolicyViz.

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 appeared first on PolicyViz.

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 post Episode #208: Frank Elavsky appeared first on PolicyViz.