Happy New Year! I hope you had a terrific holiday season and kickoff to the new year. I also hope you’re ready for an exciting year of The PolicyViz Podcast because I’ve got some unbelievable guests lined up for the next few months.
So let’s get started: On the first episode of 2016, I’m happy to welcome my good friend Lynn Cherny to the show. Lynn is currently the Visiting Knight Chair for the Center for Communication, Culture and Change at the University of Miami. She also runs her own data analysis and presentation consulting firm, Ghostweather Research and Design. In this episode, we talk about Lynn’s challenges teaching data visualization, her research and work with visualizing text, and her work with Bocoup for this spring’s OpenVisConf.
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Links
Lynn’s TextViz Pinterest board
Lynn’s Online Teaching Material | Teaching a Semester of D3.js
Lynn’s Interactive Data Vis Course Repo
Jim Vallandingham on the PolicyViz Podcast Episode #26)
Nathan Yau’s (Flowing Data) tutorials
Lynn’s presentation at OpenVisConf 2013 on detecting sex scenes in 50 Shades of Grey
Great episode. About 2/3 of the way through, Lynn mentions that Jon does not approve of word clouds. I can’t stand them myself and recently did a rank about it. Jon – have you ever formalized your criticisms of word clouds?
Hi Kyle,
I don’t think I’ve ever formalized by word cloud criticism, but it goes on the list for future blog posts.
Thanks,
Jon