On this week’s episode of the podcast, I welcome two special guests, Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, authors of the new biography of Claude Shannon, the father of information theory. Jimmy Soni has served as an editor at the New…
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Francis Gagnon is founder of the Voilà data analytics and visualization firm. He has worked in reporting and information design at the international level for the last decade. At the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, he designed…
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You know Severino Ribecca. He’s the one who runsThe Data Visualisation Catalogue, a library of different information visualisation types. Sev and I have also worked together for a few years developing the various Graphic Continuum products. Sev is a graphic…
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Cambria Brown is a Performance Management and Data Specialist with the Office of Planning, Partnerships and Improvement at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. She specializes in performance management, data visualization and data dashboard development for divisions and…
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Mark Monmonier is a Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. In the data visualization field, he is probably best known for his fantastic book, How to Lie with Maps. Professor Monmonier’s research focuses on the history…
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I’m pleased to announce that Severino Ribecca (of The Data Visualisation Catalogue fame) and I have published a French version of the Graphic Continuum poster (this is on top of the two Chinese-language versions of the poster we published a couple…
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If you regularly visit this site, you know I’m a big fan of Tile Grid Maps. They are relatively easy to make (in Excel, at least), engage readers in a different way, and address some of the issues with traditional…
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Working together, Tom Weatherburn and William Davis run the mapTO website a project where they make maps of Toronto and the surrounding areas. I found their project on rescaling the Toronto subway system to actual geography really intriguing, so I invited them to come…
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Neil Halloran is one of those people who, in my mind, is pushing the data visualization field in different directions. In his two data-driven documentaries, The Fallen and The Shadow Peace, Neil uses different ways of showing data to convey…
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Hi everyone, welcome back! I’m excited to have Jen Golbeck on this week’s episode. Jen is a world leader in social media research and science communication. She is a pioneer in the field of social data analytics, discovering people’s hidden…
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