Niklas Elmqvist is a full professor in the iSchool at University of Maryland, College Park where he directs the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL). His research area is information visualization, human-computer interaction, and visual analytics. He was elevated to the rank…
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Last year, I was invited to speak to the Social Security Technical Panel, a group of experts who convene every four years to review the assumptions of the Social Security Trustees, a six-member board charged with overseeing the Social Security…
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For a while now, I’ve been interested in trying to figure out how different research fields think about and use data visualization in their work. As an economist, I visualize data all the time–some of it makes it into the…
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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…
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We take a turn towards public policy and communicating research in this week’s episode of the podcast. My guest is my Urban Institute colleague Len Burman, an Institute Fellow and the Paul Volcker Professor and a Professor of Public Administration and…
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Hi everyone! Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! On this week’s episode, I’m excited to welcome my Urban Institute colleague Tracy Gordon to the show. Tracy is a senior fellow with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, where she researches and writes…
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Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. Number 55 if you’re keeping count. This is the final episode for the summer; I’m going to take some time off from recording, editing, and setting up before coming back in the fall with…
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Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. On this week’s show, I chat with Zan Armstrong (in person, no less!) about her work analyzing and visualizing data. I first met Zan in the spring at the OpenVisConf following her great talk…
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Recorded along the lovely Boston Harbor (enjoy the outdoor sounds), in this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Lane Harrison, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. We not only talk about Lane’s interesting…
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As everyone knows, Microsoft creates a lot of stuff: software, hardware, services, cloud services, and more. But there is also a group at Microsoft that gets to play around and create cool stuff. In this week’s episode of The PolicyViz…
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