The PolicyViz Podcast

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #12: Scott Klein appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #11: Mico Yuk appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #10: Dave Bruns appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #9: Scott Murray appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #8: Nick Diakopoulos appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #7: Rob Simmon appeared first on PolicyViz.

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... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #6: DeepLab appeared first on PolicyViz.

There are important and consequential issues to discuss when it comes to technological differences and disparities across different groups such as gender, race, ethnicities, or differences across countries. In this, the fifth episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I speak with Maral... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #5: Maral Pourkazemi appeared first on PolicyViz.

We’ve seen some big changes in data driven journalism over the past year or so with new media companies like 538, Vox, and the Upshot launching. In this fourth episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I speak with Ben Casselman, Chief... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #4: Ben Casselman appeared first on PolicyViz.

Thanks so much for tuning into the first two episodes of the PolicyViz Podcast. On this week’s episode, I welcome Eric Klotz, founder of Visualized, to discuss the challenges and excitement around data visualization conferences. Eric and I have been... The post PolicyViz Podcast Episode #3: Eric Klotz and Visualized appeared first on PolicyViz.