
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

Jul 14, 2015 • 22min
PolicyViz Podcast Episode #15: Aron Pilhofer
The 15th episode of the PolicyViz Podcast features Aron Pilhofer from the Guardian newspaper in the UK. Aron and I talk about how the Guardian is working to deepen reader engagement, measure how readers interact with their content, and how...
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Jul 7, 2015 • 19min
PolicyViz Podcast Episode #14: Ken Melero from Socrata
In this, the 14th episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I speak with Ken Melero, Director of Federal at Socrata. Socrata is a cloud-based open data software company that helps local, state, and federal governments open their data and make those data...
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Jun 30, 2015 • 20min
PolicyViz Podcast Episode #13: Mathematica Policy Research
In this episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I speak with Adam Coyne and Jennifer de Vallance from Mathematica Policy Research. MPR conducts policy and economic research to improve public well-being by bringing the highest standards of quality, objectivity, and excellence...
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Jun 23, 2015 • 17min
PolicyViz Podcast Episode #12: Scott Klein
Welcome to Episode #11 of the PolicyVIz Podcast! This week, I’m excited to welcome Scott Klein, Assistant Managing Editor at ProPublica. Scott and his team do really exciting work with data, by presenting large datasets with journalism. That is, they...
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Jun 16, 2015 • 25min
PolicyViz Podcast Episode #11: Mico Yuk
In this week’s episode, I speak with author, speaker, and dashboard expert Mico Yuk. Mico is co-founder and partner at BI Brainz, author of the book Data Visualization for Dummies, and leads business intelligence dashboard trainings around the world. In this...
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Jun 9, 2015 • 25min
PolicyViz Podcast Episode #10: Dave Bruns
When it comes to creating visualizations with your data, it’s not the tool that “makes” things, it’s the user. I’ve heard lots of people say that Excel makes terrible data visualizations. It’s true that 3D cones and 3D exploding pie...
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Jun 2, 2015 • 25min
PolicyViz Podcast Episode #9: Scott Murray
What’s the best way to teach data visualization? How do you mix theory and practical applications? What tool or tools should you teach: Tableau, Excel, d3, Processing, something else? Scott Murray, Assistant Professor of Design at the University of San...
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May 26, 2015 • 19min
PolicyViz Podcast Episode #8: Nick Diakopoulos
In this week’s episode, I chat with Nick Diakopoulos from the University of Maryland at College Park. Nick recently co-hosted an event on algorithmic transparency at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. Nick and I chat about algorithms...
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May 19, 2015 • 18min
PolicyViz Podcast Episode #7: Rob Simmon
In this week’s episode, I speak with color-guru Rob Simmon from Planet Labs. If you don’t know Rob, you should absolutely read is famous 6-part series on color hosted at the Visual.ly blog. Nowadays, Rob is busy launching satellites and...
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May 12, 2015 • 20min
PolicyViz Podcast Episode #6: DeepLab
In the previous episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I spoke with Maral Pourkazemi about the DeepLab project. That discussion was so interesting, we pulled in instigator Addie Wagenknecht to talk more about the project, its future, and what it means...
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