Today marks the first birthday of the PolicyViz Podcast! I posted the 39th episode with Alberto Cairo yesterday. Oddly enough, Alberto was my first official podcast guest a year ago, but I didn’t realize it was going to work out that…
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Tomorrow (April 6) marks the first birthday of The PolicyViz Podcast! Thanks so much for continuing to tune in every week; your support makes the show worth doing. And a special thanks to Juice Analytics for sponsoring this and many other…
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I’m pleased to welcome Steven Drucker to the show, who is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research. Steven and I talk about MSR’s new project, SandDance, a browser-based information visualization system that scales to hundreds of thousands of items. You…
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On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Sarah Kliff from Vox. Sarah is a Senior Editor at Vox.com and oversees reporting on health and medicine. She previously worked at the Washington Post and Politico. Sarah and I…
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Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! On this week’s episode, I chat with Xaquín González Veira who is the Editor of Visuals at the Guardian. Recorded live in Germany at the Dagstuhl Visual Storytelling conference, we talk about all the things…
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If you haven’t heard, OpenVisConf 2016 is right around the corner (April 25-26 in Bostom). In its 4th year, OpenVis Conf is a two-day, single track conference centered around the practice of visualizing data on the web. The conference features…
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This week, I’m pleased to welcome Dominikus Baur to the program. Mobile interaction designer and developer, Dominikus creates usable, aesthetic, and responsive visualizations for all platforms. His latest project, Subspotting, logged the cell phoe reception of New York City’s four…
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In this week’s episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I speak to Chris Parmer, Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Plotly, the online data visualization and analytics firm. Chris and I talk about Plotly’s tool, their business model, open source data…
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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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