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
Nov 15, 2016 • 20min
Episode #65: Nadieh Bremer
Welcome back to the show! I’m super excited to chat with Nadieh Bremer on this week’s show. Nadieh is an astronomer by training who came to love data visualization. (Does anyone come to data visualization directly??). Her projects include web-based interactive...
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Nov 9, 2016 • 35min
Episode #64: Kim Rees
On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Kim Rees, who is Co-founder and Head of Visualization at the data visualization firm Periscopic. You may know Kim from her great work at Periscopic, her talk at the...
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Nov 9, 2016 • 30min
Episode #62: Garr Reynolds
Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! With my book on presentations about to launch, I’m very excited to talk with one of the authors who inspired my work in this area, Garr Reynolds. If you’ve ever thought carefully about how...
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Nov 9, 2016 • 19min
Episode #63: Stephanie Evergreen
Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. On this week’s show, I chat with Stephanie Evergreen whose new book on data visualization, Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data, was released in May. In this week’s episode, Stephanie and I...
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Oct 18, 2016 • 24min
Episode #61: Drew Skau & Robert Kosara
On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I’m pleased to chat with Drew Skau and Robert Kosara, who co-authored a couple of papers on how we perceive the quantities in pie charts. Their work centers on how do we perceive quantities...
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Oct 11, 2016 • 29min
Episode #60: Evan Sinar
On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I’m pleased to welcome Evan Sinar to the show. Evan is the Chief Scientist and Vice President at Development Dimensions International (DDI) in Pittsburgh. Evan is a Industrial and Organizational Psychologist (I/O Psych)...
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Oct 4, 2016 • 18min
Episode #59: Beth Akers and Matt Chingos
Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I’m taking a bit of a turn on the show. Instead of talking with people directly creating visualizations or building visualization tools, I talk to two people working in the field of education research...
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Sep 27, 2016 • 29min
Episode #58: The Financial Times Graphic Desk
Welcome back to the show! This week, I’m very pleased to be joined by John Burn-Murdoch, Alan Smith, and Martin Stabe from the graphics desk at the Financial Times. Established in 1884, the Financial Times is one of the world’s leading...
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Sep 20, 2016 • 26min
Episode #57: Data+Women
On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with the organizers of the DC chapter of the Data+Women Meetup group, Brittany Fong, Julie Kim, Emily Kund, and Erin Simpler. We talk about the current state of the group, challenges...
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Sep 13, 2016 • 27min
Episode #56: Andy Kirk
Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! I hope you had a great, safe summer. To kick off the fall slate of episodes, I’m very excited to welcome Andy Kirk to the show. Andy–as I’m sure you know–runs the popular website Visualisingdata.com,...
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