Ben Jones is the founder and CEO of Data Literacy, a training and education company that’s on a mission to help people learn the language of data. Ben is a highly experienced and passionate instructor, having taught data to thousands…
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Michael Kubovy is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Virginia. His publications in cognitive science span the fields of decision-making, visual and auditory perception, the psychology of art and the psychology of pleasure. In his work on perception he…
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Earlier this week, I attended the one day “Stats for America” conference at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was an interesting conference that focused on the use and communication of data and analyses from several federal agencies. My primary…
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International speaker, Adobe Creative Residency alumna, and award-winning infographic designer, Jessica Bellamy, graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Louisville (UofL) with degrees in Drawing (BFA), Graphic Design (BFA), Pan African Studies (BA), and a minor in Communication. As…
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Alyssa Fowers is a Ph.D. student at the University of Miami where she studies research methods, applied statistics, and data visualization. She writes about graphs (and sometimes swords) at Data & Dragons. Before returning to graduate school, she worked in…
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I’ve been making my way through Sandra Rendgen’s new book, The Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard. It’s a wonderful journey through Minard’s work and in particular, his development of the flow map. While Minard is generally…
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Happy New Year, everyone! And welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I hope you had a happy and safe holiday season. I’ve got a great lineup of guests coming your way, so stay tuned to hear discussions with authors, designers,…
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Another year has passed and a lot has happened in the data visualization world. For this final episode of the PolicyViz Podcast for 2018, I’m reposting the year in review episode from Data Stories, in which I joined hosts Enrico…
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On this week’s episode of the show, I chat with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic from Storytelling with Data to talk about the recent Tapestry Conference held in Miami, FL. A day-and-a-half of great talks and great people, Tapestry is a small…
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Scott Berinato is is the author of Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations. Even though he’s a writer, he’s also a self-described “dataviz geek” who loves the challenge of finding visual solutions to communications and…
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