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Nigel Holmes is a British/American graphic designer, author, and theorist, who focuses on information graphics and information design. Graduating from Royal College of Art in London in 1966, Holmes ran his own successful graphic design practice in England. From 1966 to 1977, he worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer for clients such as British Broadcasting Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and Island Records. His work appeared in New Scientist, Radio Times, The Observer, Daily Telegraph, and The Times. In 1977, art director Walter Bernard hired him to work in the map and chart department of Time magazine, where Holmes later became graphics director. After a sabbatical he started his own company, which has explained things to and for a wide variety of clients, including Apple, Fortune, Nike, The Smithsonian Institution, Sony, United Healthcare, US Airways, and Visa.See links, notes, transcript and more at the PolicyViz website.

Joe Sharpe has been founder and creative director at Applied Works since 2005, a design studio using data visualisation, user-centred design and storytelling to create digital tools and products that drive positive change. Joe also teaches on the BA Graphic Design degree at Kingston School of Art, running an elective pathway for second and third year students that explores how emerging technology is transforming the way we communicate, work, play and consume.Mike Orwell is a digital executive producer, filmmaker and consultant. Between 2009 & 2018, he was a producer and commissioning editor at the BBC and since then has worked with award-winning digital production studios like Unit9, Marshmallow Laser Feast and Applied Works to explore new storytelling methods. At the BBC, he pioneered various mass-audience, data-driven storytelling & branching narrative projects , including the Great British Class Calculator and the BBC Lab UK platform. His boutique film-making collective Elastic Semantic specialises in telling research-driven science & engineering stories for clients such as Arup.See links, notes, transcript and more at the PolicyViz website.

Jonathon Reilly is an innovative and results-driven executive with over 20 years of experience in product management, business development, and operations. As the Co-Founder and COO of Akkio, he has helped create an easy-to-use AI platform that empowers users to build and deploy AI solutions to data problems in minutes.Prior to founding Akkio, Jonathon served as the VP of Product & Marketing at Markforged, where he played a critical role in the company's growth and success. With a strong background in the tech industry, Jonathon held various leadership positions at Sonos, Inc., including Leader of the Music Player Product Management Team, Global Channel Development, and Senior Product Manager. He began his career at Sony Electronics, where he contributed significantly to the development of a wide range of consumer products as a product manager and electrical engineer.Jonathon holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business and a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Gonzaga University.See links, notes, transcript more at the PolicyViz website.Episode NotesJonathon | Medium | TwitterAkkioHow to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff and Irving GeisData at Urban: How We Used Machine Learning to Predict Neighborhood ChangeautoMLRelated EpisodesEpisode #227 with Max KuhnEpisode #225 with Julia SilgeEpisode #227 with Claire McKay BowenEpisode #227 with Steve Franconeri and Jen Christiansen

On this week's episode of the PolicyViz podcast, I chat with Susan Schulten and Georges Hattab, authors of the new books on dataviz luminaries Emma Willard and Etienne-Jules Marey. We talk about these two creators and their impacts on the data visualization field today.Susan Schulten is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Denver, where she has taught since 1996. Georges Hattab is the Visualization Group Leader at the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research at the Robert Koch Institute since 2022.

Micah is a mathematician who likes to use pictures to understand things. He runs a website, hockeyviz.com, where he stores pictures about hockey. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife and his two children.Episode NotesMicah | Twitter | SiteBubble physicsPythonBeautiful SoupsvgwriteMatplotlibLine-width illusionRelated EpisodesEpisode #238: Jeremy Ney Episode #237: Tristan Gullevin Episode #194: Charlie SmartiTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeSponsorUse my special link (

Jeremy is the author of American Inequality, a biweekly newsletter that uses data visualization to highlight U.S. inequality topics and to drive change in communities. His work has been published in TIME, Bloomberg, and the LA Times. He was a dual-degree masters student at MIT Sloan and the Harvard Kennedy School and was formerly a macro policy strategist at the Federal Reserve. He now works at Google and lives in Brooklyn.Episode NotesJeremy on Twitter | Op-ed in TimeAmerican Inequality newsletter: americaninequality.substack.comFederal Reserve Bank of New YorkFood Deserts and InequalityTechnology and Disability: The Relationship Between Broadband Access and Disability Insurance AwardsSome coverage of the map: American Inequality  Paul Krugman  David Wallace-Wells  LA TimesRelated EpisodesEpisode #228: Ethan MollickEpisode #224: Pieta Blakely and Eli HolderEpisode #191: Sarah WilliamsiTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneIn

Tristan is a Data Visualization Freelancer who likes to combine different techniques to find the best way to represent data. He regularly creates tools and videos to help people build their next projects or level up their skills. Tristan is the 2017 Iron Viz Champion, and current Tableau Visionary.Episode NotesTristan | Web | Twitter | YouTubeFigmaObservablePowerBISvelteTableauTableau PublicRelated EpisodesEpisode #234: Kirk Munroe Episode #230: Vidya Setlur and Bridget Cogley Episode #211: Jock D. MackinlayEpisode #209: The Flerlage TwinsiTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz Newsletter

Gabrielle Ione Hickmon (b. 1994) is a Black woman from a middle place—Ypsilanti, MI. Her lab is a place where clay and words meet. She is interested in body memory, waiting rooms, layovers, circles, Black imaginaries, and ocular proof. Her work includes essays, ethnographic research, and coil-built ceramics. She won Bronze in the Leisure, Games, & Sport category of the 2022 Information is Beautiful Awards and First Honorable Mention in the 2022 NYU American Journalism Online Awards for her ethnographic research project, How You Play Spades is How You Play Life: Spades in the African American Community. Her writing has appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, The Baffler, The Pudding, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She attended Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. She has been in residence at Pocoapoco, Mas Palou, and will soon be in residence at Dairy Hollow, Mudhouse, and Haystack.  Gabrielle is currently at work on The Boyne City Project, a series of vessels chronicling her family history in Michigan which dates back to before the Great Migration, an essay collection, and a memoir. She works out of a studio in Ann Arbor, MI.Episode NotesGabrielle | Web | Instagram | TwitterHow You Play Spades Is How You Live Life at The PuddingInformation is Beautiful AwardsMixed-ish from Kenya BarrisDo No Harm Project from the Urban InstituteNvivoMatt Daniels at the PuddingiTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle Podcasts

Jen Christiansen is the author of Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagrams and Visualizations (CRC Press) and senior graphics editor at Scientific American, where she art directs and produces illustrated explanatory diagrams and data visualizations.Episode NotesJen | Web | Book | Book siteScientific AmericaniTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeSponsorUse my special link (https://zen.ai/policyviz12) to save 12% at blendjet.com. The discount will be applied at checkout!New Ways to Support the Show!With more than 200 guests and eight seasons of episodes, the PolicyViz Podcast is one of the longest-running data visualization podcasts around. You can support the show by downloading and listening, following the work of my guests, and sharing the show with your networks. I’m grateful to everyone who listens and supports the show, and now I’m offering new exciting ways for you to support the show financially. You can check out the special paid version of my newsletter, receive text messages with special data visualization tips, or go to the simplified Patreon platform. Whichever you choose,

Kirk Munroe is a business analytics and performance management expert. He has held leadership roles in product management, marketing, sales enablement, and customer success in analytics software companies including, Cognos, IBM, Kinaxis, Tableau, and Salesforce. Kirk has a passion for coaching and mentoring people to make better decisions through storytelling with data. He is currently one of the two owners and principal consultants at Paint with Data, a visual analytics consulting firm. Kirk lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.Episode NotesKirk | Web | Twitter Book: Data Modeling with Tableau: A practical guide to building data models using Tableau Prep and Tableau DesktopKirk Munroe: 4 Common Tableau Data Model Problems…and How to Fix ThemRelated EpisodesiTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeSponsorAre you ready to earn extra income from sharing your expert opinion? Head over to userinterviews.com/hello to sign up and participate today!New Ways to Support the Show!With more than 200 guests and eight seasons of episodes, the PolicyViz Podcast is one of the longest-running data visualization podcasts around. You can support the show by downloading and listening, following the work of my guests, and sharing the show with your networks. I’m grateful to everyone who listens and supports the show, and now I’m offering new exciting ways for you to support the show financially. You can check out the special paid version of my