The PolicyViz Podcast

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. I’m happy to have Ben Jones on the show this week. Ben writes about data visualization on his popular blog Data Remixed and also helps run Tableau Public. Ben is a prolific writer, blogger, speaker,... The post Episode #42: Ben Jones appeared first on PolicyViz.

As everyone knows, Microsoft creates a lot of stuff: software, hardware, services, cloud services, and more. But there is also a group at Microsoft that gets to play around and create cool stuff. In this week’s episode of The PolicyViz... The post Episode #41: Mike Pell appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast. This week, I’m pleased to chat with Zach Gemignani, CEO and Founder of Juice Analytics. Juice, a sponsor of the show, helps their customers analyze, visualize, and deliver their data. Their experiences with different clients demonstrates... The post Episode #40: Zach Gemignani appeared first on PolicyViz.

Tomorrow (April 6) marks the first birthday of The PolicyViz Podcast! Thanks so much for continuing to tune in every week; your support makes the show worth doing. And a special thanks to Juice Analytics for sponsoring this and many other... The post Episode #39: Alberto Cairo appeared first on PolicyViz.

I’m pleased to welcome Steven Drucker to the show, who is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research. Steven and I talk about MSR’s new project, SandDance, a browser-based information visualization system that scales to hundreds of thousands of items. You... The post Episode #38: Steven Drucker appeared first on PolicyViz.

On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Sarah Kliff from Vox. Sarah is a Senior Editor at Vox.com and oversees reporting on health and medicine. She previously worked at the Washington Post and Politico. Sarah and I... The post Episode #37: Sarah Kliff appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! On this week’s episode, I chat with Xaquín González Veira who is the Editor of Visuals at the Guardian. Recorded live in Germany at the Dagstuhl Visual Storytelling conference, we talk about all the things... The post Episode #36: Xaquín González Veira appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post Episode #35: Irene Ros appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post Episode #34: Dominikus Baur appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post Episode #33: Chris Parmer from Plotly appeared first on PolicyViz.