The PolicyViz Podcast

Minhaz Kazi is a Developer Advocate for Google Data Studio. A business intelligence veteran, Minhaz is always exploring new ways for developers to collect, analyze, and visualize data. He is available for long discussions on circular reference errors, benefits of pie... The post Episode #138: Minhaz Kazi appeared first on PolicyViz .

I spent the weekend-before-last in Potsdam, Germany attending the Information Plus Conference. In its second iteration (the first was in Vancouver in 2016), Info+ brings together designers, academics, and practitioners to discuss the current state of data visualization work and... The post Episode #137: Information+ Conference appeared first on PolicyViz .

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I’m just back from Germany attending the Information+ Conference in Potsdam and am excited for this week’s episode. This week, I chat with Britt Rusert, one of the editors of the new book, W. E.... The post Episode #136:  W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits appeared first on PolicyViz .

Kerri Ruttenberg is a partner at Jones Day and the Head of Litigation for the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. She has tried cases in state and federal courts around the country, representing clients in a broad range of cases including... The post Episode #135: Kerri Ruttenberg appeared first on PolicyViz .

Welcome back to the show. On this week’s episode, I sit down with the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Kevin Hassett. Prior to his current stint at the CEA, Kevin was at the American Enterprise Institute. He was... The post Episode #134: Kevin Hassett appeared first on PolicyViz .

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! After a lovely summer break, I’m back with new episodes focusing on data, data visualization, and presentation skills. I’m slowing things down a bit this year and going to an every-other-week format. Still on... The post Episode #133: Hilary Mason appeared first on PolicyViz .

On today’s show, I’m very happy to welcome best selling author and speaker, Carmine Gallo. Carmine is the bestselling author of Talk Like TED, The Storyteller’s Secret, and most recently, Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great. He is... The post Episode #132: Carmine Gallo appeared first on PolicyViz .

Dan Roam is the author of five international bestselling books on business-visualization which have been translated into 31 languages. “The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems with Pictures” was named by Fast Company, The London Times, and BusinessWeek as ‘Creativity Book... The post Episode #131: Dan Roam appeared first on PolicyViz .

Michael Cristiani passed away at the end of May of this year. Michael was a well-known and well-loved member of the Tableau community. I didn’t know him well–I only met him in person once. But we communicated via Twitter and... The post Episode #130: A Tribute to Michael Cristiani appeared first on PolicyViz .

David Johnson is the Deputy Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics at the University of Michigan. Prior to that position, Dr. Johnson was the Chief Economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. He also served as the chief of the... The post Episode #129: David Johnson appeared first on PolicyViz .

Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc is a House Staff Surgeon at the University of Michigan and Chief Medical Officer at HOK Architects. He completed his undergraduate and medical degrees education both with Honors at Case Western Reserve University with a year... The post Episode #128: Andrew Ibrahim appeared first on PolicyViz .

Welcome back to the podcast! On this week’s episode, I sit down with three amazing people from different parts of the data visualization world to recap the 2018 OpenVisConf conference held in Paris, France earlier this month. Who do I... The post Episode #127: OpenVisConf Recap appeared first on PolicyViz .

Alex Selby-Boothroyd joined The Economist as an interactive visual data journalist in 2015 and now runs the data journalism department. His team writes data-driven articles and creates all of the static and interactive charts and maps for the website, apps and weekly... The post Episode #126: Alex Selby-Boothroyd & Marie Segger appeared first on PolicyViz .

The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, hosted in the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University, empowers scientists and health professionals to communicate complex topics in clear, vivid, and engaging ways; leading to improved understanding by the public, media,... The post Episode #125: Laura Lindenfeld and Valeri Lantz-Gefroh appeared first on PolicyViz .

Eileen Webb is a digital strategist and co-founder of webmeadow, a firm that helps progressive organizations develop content and technology strategies to make the world a better place. Her background is in server-side coding and being that odd person who... The post Episode #124: Eileen Webb appeared first on PolicyViz .

Scott Murray is the Principal Learning Scientist at O’Reilly Media. Prior to that work, he was an Assistant Professor of Design at USF. He works with code, data, and computation to design learning experiences and is deeply interested in learning, teaching,... The post Episode #123: Scott Murray appeared first on PolicyViz .

Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, and branding pro, and works with individuals and organizations to help nail their messaging and engage clients, customers, and fans. Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion” has earned more than 3... The post Episode #122: Terri Trespicio appeared first on PolicyViz .

On this week’s episode of the podcast, I’m joined by two guests to talk about gender discrimination in the field of economics. Erin Hengel is an assistant professor of Economics at the University of Liverpool. She evaluates bankruptcy vis-à-vis recent... The post Episode #121: Erin Hengel and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham appeared first on PolicyViz .

Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami. He teaches data visualization and infographics in our Journalism and Interactive Media Masters programs, and he is also the director of the Visualization Program at UM’s Center... The post Episode #120: Alberto Cairo appeared first on PolicyViz .

Emma Bannister is the founder and CEO of Presentation Studio, a presentation-design firm based in in Sydney, Australia. Emma has designed presentations for banks, technology firms, and others to help them communicate better. Emma and her staff of 20 are... The post Episode #119: Emma Bannister appeared first on PolicyViz .

From chemist to artist to designer, Stephy Lewis used to be a total Adobe snob until she was thrust into the world of presentation design. Ever since, she’s been passionately evangelizing the field in an attempt to elevate our industry as high... The post Episode #118: Stephy Lewis appeared first on PolicyViz .

Steve Haroz is a postdoc researcher at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. His research explores how the brain perceives and understands visually displayed information like charts and infographics. We talk about data visualization research, uncertainty, connected scatterplots, and... The post Episode #117: Steve Haroz appeared first on PolicyViz .

George Johnston is the founder of Nitrous, a platform to help startup companies collaborate with governments to ensure more sustainable and cost effective innovation. They also help government open and share their data through collaboration with other partners. George is also... The post Episode #116: George Johnston appeared first on PolicyViz .

On last week’s episode, I sat outside Facebook and chatted with Andy Kirk about our experience at the Social Science Foo Camp, a two-and-a-half day conference at Facebook that brought together all sorts of social scientists. One of the first... The post Episode #115: Data Ethics with Laura Noren & Hetan Shah appeared first on PolicyViz .

I just returned from a 10-day data visualization trek from DC to New York to San Francisco to Los Angeles where I talk workshops, gave talks, and attended the Social Science Foo Camp at Facebook. SocSciFoo, as it’s called, is... The post Episode #114: Andy Kirk at SocSciFoo appeared first on PolicyViz .