

The PolicyViz Podcast
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.
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Feb 25, 2020 • 53min
Episode #168: Ann Emery
Over the past few years of doing this show, I’ve made a whole new bunch of friends. Honestly, some guests I would call ‘acquaintances’, but for others, we’ve either become new friends because of the show or they were friends...
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Feb 4, 2020 • 23min
Episode #167: Elevate the Debate: How to Drive Fact-Based Policy Conversations
In this week’s episode, I start to celebrate my new book, Elevate the Debate: A Multilayered Approach to Communicating Your Research. Co-authored with my colleagues in the communications department at the Urban Institute, the goal of the book is to...
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Jan 21, 2020 • 35min
Episode #166: Jessica Witt
Dr. Jessica Witt is a Professor in Psychology at Colorado State University. Dr. Witt received her Ph.D from the University of Virginia in 2007, and has been at CSU since 2012. Dr. Witt recently won the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific...
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Jan 7, 2020 • 30min
Episode #165: Amelia Wattenberger
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had some time to rest and relax with friends and family. Thanks for tuning into the show. On this week’s episode, I’m excited to chat with Amelia Wattenberger, a developer and designer focused...
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Dec 18, 2019 • 34min
Build Awesome Conference Posters with Mike Morrison
Cheers to the last episode of The PolicyViz Podcast for 2019! I’ll be taking a couple of weeks off before coming back with brand new episodes in January. In the meantime, please take a peek at my forthcoming book, Elevate...The post Episode #165: Mike Morrison appeared first on PolicyViz.

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.


