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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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Jul 3, 2018 • 32min
Episode #132: Carmine Gallo
On today’s show, I’m very happy to welcome best selling author and speaker, Carmine Gallo. Carmine is the bestselling author of Talk Like TED, The Storyteller’s Secret, and most recently, Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great. He is...
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Jun 26, 2018 • 36min
Episode #131: Dan Roam
Dan Roam is the author of five international bestselling books on business-visualization which have been translated into 31 languages. “The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems with Pictures” was named by Fast Company, The London Times, and BusinessWeek as ‘Creativity Book...
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Jun 19, 2018 • 22min
Episode #130: A Tribute to Michael Cristiani
Michael Cristiani passed away at the end of May of this year. Michael was a well-known and well-loved member of the Tableau community. I didn’t know him well–I only met him in person once. But we communicated via Twitter and...
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Jun 12, 2018 • 22min
Episode #129: David Johnson
David Johnson is the Deputy Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics at the University of Michigan. Prior to that position, Dr. Johnson was the Chief Economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. He also served as the chief of the...
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Jun 5, 2018 • 22min
Episode #128: Andrew Ibrahim
Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc is a House Staff Surgeon at the University of Michigan and Chief Medical Officer at HOK Architects. He completed his undergraduate and medical degrees education both with Honors at Case Western Reserve University with a year...
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May 29, 2018 • 24min
Episode #127: OpenVisConf Recap
Welcome back to the podcast! On this week’s episode, I sit down with three amazing people from different parts of the data visualization world to recap the 2018 OpenVisConf conference held in Paris, France earlier this month. Who do I...
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May 22, 2018 • 25min
Episode #126: Alex Selby-Boothroyd & Marie Segger
Alex Selby-Boothroyd joined The Economist as an interactive visual data journalist in 2015 and now runs the data journalism department. His team writes data-driven articles and creates all of the static and interactive charts and maps for the website, apps and weekly...
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May 8, 2018 • 36min
Episode #125: Laura Lindenfeld and Valeri Lantz-Gefroh
The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, hosted in the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University, empowers scientists and health professionals to communicate complex topics in clear, vivid, and engaging ways; leading to improved understanding by the public, media,...
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May 1, 2018 • 24min
Episode #124: Eileen Webb
Eileen Webb is a digital strategist and co-founder of webmeadow, a firm that helps progressive organizations develop content and technology strategies to make the world a better place. Her background is in server-side coding and being that odd person who...
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Apr 24, 2018 • 36min
Episode #123: Scott Murray
Scott Murray is the Principal Learning Scientist at O’Reilly Media. Prior to that work, he was an Assistant Professor of Design at USF. He works with code, data, and computation to design learning experiences and is deeply interested in learning, teaching,...
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