Data Projects

Hi everyone, welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! This week, I’m pleased to chat with data journalist, designer, and (new) visualization consultant, Maarten Lambrechts. Maarten has built a ton of great projects and analysis, so we dive into his process, his…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…