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.x Episode Notes https://juliasilge.com/ https://www.tidymodels.org/ https://www.tmwr.org/ https://smltar.com/ https://vetiver.rstudio.com/...
Oct 25, 2022•38 min•Season 9Ep. 225
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, th...
Oct 11, 2022•33 min•Season 9Ep. 224
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...
Sep 27, 2022•34 min•Season 9Ep. 223
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 V...
Sep 20, 2022•33 min•Season 9Ep. 222
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 fa...
Jul 06, 2022•35 min•Season 8Ep. 221
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 Tw...
Jun 21, 2022•29 min•Season 8Ep. 220
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 Notes Duncan Clark | Website | Twitter Canva Flourish Draw the line template Bar chart races template SDK (Github) Mike Bostock Th...
Jun 09, 2022•33 min•Season 8Ep. 219
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...
May 24, 2022•31 min•Season 8Ep. 218
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 Presentati...
May 04, 2022•38 min•Season 8Ep. 217
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 Alamo...
Apr 19, 2022•34 min•Season 8Ep. 216
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 ...
Apr 05, 2022•27 min•Season 8Ep. 215
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 .
Mar 22, 2022•28 min•Season 8Ep. 214
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 .
Mar 08, 2022•45 min•Season 8Ep. 213
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 .
Feb 22, 2022•31 min•Season 8Ep. 212
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 .
Feb 08, 2022•31 min•Season 8Ep. 211
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 .
Jan 26, 2022•40 min•Season 8Ep. 210
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 .
Jan 12, 2022•45 min•Season 8Ep. 209
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 .
Dec 28, 2021•33 min•Season 8Ep. 208
Tom works at RStudio, and is obviously very active in the R community. He runs the TidyTuesday project and developed the Grammar of Tables package in the R programming language. The post Episode #207: Tom Mock appeared first on PolicyViz .
Dec 14, 2021•31 min•Season 8Ep. 207
Zen Faulkes, author of Better Posters visits PolicyViz Podcast to talk about creating an infographic or presentation slides or data visualization. Even though it's specific to this one part of data communication, I think there's a lot going on here that a lot of us can learn about data communication. So we talk about Zen's background, coming into this poster area. He talked about his interest in design, working with data academics, what it's like to actually be in a conference poster session if ...
Nov 30, 2021•36 min•Season 8Ep. 206
In this week’s episode of the podcast, I’m playing the recording from the opening moderated panel discussion between myself, Jen Christiansen, and Steve Franconeri at the 2021 VisComm workshop at the IEEEVIS conference. We (the workshop organizers) asked Jen and... The post Episode #205: Steve Franconeri and Jen Christiansen a VisComm Workshop appeared first on PolicyViz ....
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 8Ep. 205
Rebecca Pazos is a mum of one and a senior data journalist with The Straits Times for six years. Recently, she completed her Masters in visual tools with the University of Girona. She is dedicated to telling compassionate, human-centered data... The post Episode #204: Rebecca Pazos appeared first on PolicyViz .
Nov 02, 2021•34 min•Season 8Ep. 205
https://policyviz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PolicyViz_EpisodeNo203.mp3 The post Episode #203: Alli Torban appeared first on PolicyViz .
Oct 19, 2021•46 min•Season 8Ep. 203
Lindsay Betzendahl is a Tableau Zen Master and Tableau Public Ambassador, join us for her visit The PolicyViz Podcast. The post Episode #202: Lindsay Betzendahl appeared first on PolicyViz .
Oct 05, 2021•31 min•Season 8Ep. 202
Leland Wilkinson is Chief Scientist at H2O and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago visits The PolicyViz Podcast to discuss The Grammar of Graphics, coding, and much much more. The post Episode #201: Leland Wilkinson appeared first on PolicyViz .
Sep 21, 2021•51 min•Season 8Ep. 201
In the 200th episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, we discuss the recent Do No Harm Guide about taking a racially equitable lens with your data. The post Episode #200: Do No Harm Guide appeared first on PolicyViz .
Jun 29, 2021•46 min•Season 7Ep. 200
Associate professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah and a faculty member in the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute visits the PolicyViz Podcast to talk about the Visualization Design Lab. The post Episode # 199: Miriah Meyer appeared first on PolicyViz .
Jun 15, 2021•33 min•Season 7Ep. 199
Author and speaker Scott Berkun visits the PolicyViz Podcast to talk about his new book How Design Makes The World. The post Episode # 198: Scott Berkun appeared first on PolicyViz .
Jun 01, 2021•31 min•Season 7Ep. 198
Data journalist Casey Miller visits the PolicyViz Podcast to talk about her work at the Los Angeles Times. The post Episode #197: Casey Miller appeared first on PolicyViz .
May 18, 2021•29 min•Season 7Ep. 197
Francis Gagnon, founder of the information design firm Voila:, visits the podcast to talk about building his own information design company. The post Episode #196: Francis Gagnon appeared first on PolicyViz .
May 04, 2021•35 min•Season 7Ep. 196
