Welcome back to the show. In this week’s episode, we’re talking about teaching data visualization. What are best practices? Are there great exercises and assignments to give? What should students walk away with at the end of the day, week,…
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A few weeks ago, I attended an interesting one-day workshop on the responsible and ethical use of data in the data visualization field in New York City. The Responsible Data Forum brought together about 35 people to address issues and topics…
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We turn back to tools this week on the PolicyViz Podcast. I’m pleased to have with me Jon Acampora who runs the very popular Excel Campus website. Jon provides tutorials on VBA, formulas, and many other tools. As an Excel…
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Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! A special episode this week–a panel discussion, as it were, about open data. This conversation was sparked by a presentation I gave at the 2015 Socrata Customer Summit about the need to make open…
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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…
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For the final episode in 2015, I’m excited to welcome Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec back to the show to talk about their year of Dear Data, their analog data visualization project. Our conversation is a bit broader than just…
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Very excited to welcome Jim Vallandingham to this week’s episode of the podcast. Jim is a Data Visualization and Open Web Engineer at Bocoup. He writes regularly about everything open: code, projects, collaborative tools, building great stuff. In this episode,…
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I’m happy to invite my good friend Andy Cotgreave from Tableau Software to the 25th episode of The PolicyViz Podcast. Andy is the Technical Evangelist at Tableau software and writes and speaks regularly and widely about all things data: how to analyze…
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Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! This week, I speak with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, who runs the Storytelling with Data blog and whose new book–Storytelling with Data–was just released. I was fortunate enough to get a copy of the book…
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Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! In this week’s episode, I chat with Arvind Satyanarayan, Computer Science PhD candidate at Stanford University, working with Jeff Heer and the Interactive Data Lab. Arvind’s research seeks to lower the threshold for design, with a…
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