
The PolicyViz Podcast
Learn how to be a great data communicator and visualizer with host Jon Schwabish. Hear from experts in the fields of data science, data visualization, and presentation skills to improve how you and your organization collect, analyze, and communicate your data in better, more efficient, and more effective ways.
Latest episodes

Dec 3, 2019 • 40min
Episode #164: Molly Bauch
Molly Bauch specializes in business transformation, innovation, and strategic communications. She has more than 15 years’ consulting experience helping clients launch new programs, transform service delivery, and embrace fundamental, sustainable change. She’s a Climate Reality Leader, an International Society for...
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Nov 26, 2019 • 29min
Episode #163: Anti-Defamation League
I try to spend time watching great speeches. It helps inform how I give my own talks and how I think about teaching others. This past week, I watched Sacha Baron Cohen’s remarks at the Anti-Defamation League’s International Leadership Awards...
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Nov 13, 2019 • 28min
Episode #162: Stéphanie Walter
With a decade of experience as User eXperience Designer, Stéphanie Walter helps her clients in the banking, healthcare, automotive and financial industry deliver successful projects to their audience, all the way from strategy to the final products and services. She...
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Nov 5, 2019 • 36min
Episode #161: Rob Simmon
Robert Simmon is a data visualizer and designer working with Planet. He focuses on producing visualizations that are elegant and easily understandable, while accurately presenting the underlying data. He helped create some of NASA and Planet’s most widely-seen imagery, including...
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Oct 17, 2019 • 36min
Kenneth Field shows you how to create great maps
Kenneth Field is a ‘cartonerd’ with a Bachelors degree in cartography and PhD in GIS. A former academic who grew tired of admin, he ditched his 20 year career, moved to the US, and talks and writes about cartography, teaches,...The post Episode #160: Kenneth Field appeared first on PolicyViz.

Oct 1, 2019 • 30min
Episode #159: Sandra Rendgen
Sandra Rendgen is an author, consultant and concept developer with a focus on data visualization, interactive media and the history of infographics. She is the author of several books about historical and current developments in the field, most recently History...
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Sep 17, 2019 • 29min
Episode #158: Ron Wasserstein
Ronald L. (Ron) Wasserstein is the executive director of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and he joins me this week on the podcast to talk about the 2020 Census. In this role at the ASA, Wasserstein provides executive leadership and...
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Sep 3, 2019 • 30min
Episode #157: Alberto Cairo
Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I hope you had a great summer and got some time to rest and relax. I’m really excited for this season of the show–I’ve got some great guests lined up to talk about their...
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Jul 2, 2019 • 30min
Episode #156: Ben Jones
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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Jun 18, 2019 • 41min
The Financial Times' John Burn-Murdoch talks the Annotation Layer
Part of the FT’s interactive news team, John-Burn Murdoch works as a journalist alongside developers and designers to produce a mix of long term data-driven projects and same day interactive news stories. Other activities include presenting to domestic and overseas...The post Episode #155: John Burn-Murdoch appeared first on PolicyViz.