
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

Mar 8, 2016 • 21min
Episode #35: Irene Ros
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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Mar 1, 2016 • 15min
Episode #34: Dominikus Baur
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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Feb 23, 2016 • 21min
Episode #33: Chris Parmer from Plotly
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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Feb 16, 2016 • 38min
Episode #32: Teaching Data Visualization
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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Feb 2, 2016 • 36min
Episode #31: Rees & Mushon on DataViz Empathy
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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Jan 26, 2016 • 23min
Episode #30: Jon Acampora from Excel Campus
We turn back to tools this week on the PolicyViz Podcast. I’m pleased to have with me Jon Acampora who runs the very popular Excel Campus website. Jon provides tutorials on VBA, formulas, and many other tools. As an Excel...
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Jan 19, 2016 • 32min
Episode #29: Discussion on Open Data
Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! A special episode this week–a panel discussion, as it were, about open data. This conversation was sparked by a presentation I gave at the 2015 Socrata Customer Summit about the need to make open...
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Jan 12, 2016 • 26min
Episode #28: Lynn Cherny
Happy New Year! I hope you had a terrific holiday season and kickoff to the new year. I also hope you’re ready for an exciting year of The PolicyViz Podcast because I’ve got some unbelievable guests lined up for the...
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Dec 22, 2015 • 28min
Episode #27: Dear Data Wrap-Up
For the final episode in 2015, I’m excited to welcome Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec back to the show to talk about their year of Dear Data, their analog data visualization project. Our conversation is a bit broader than just...
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Dec 8, 2015 • 21min
Episode #26: Jim Vallandingham
Very excited to welcome Jim Vallandingham to this week’s episode of the podcast. Jim is a Data Visualization and Open Web Engineer at Bocoup. He writes regularly about everything open: code, projects, collaborative tools, building great stuff. In this episode,...
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