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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 

Ellie Balk is an artist obsessed with color, pattern, data and mathematics. She creates large scale data visualization public artworks using paint, glass, sound and most recently ceramics. Community engagement and interaction is at the core of her work. Ellie lives in Brooklyn, while working internationally.  Her public artwork can be experienced across the United State, extensively throughout New York City and St. Louis, Missouri and Internationally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mae Rim, Thailand in Saint Louis, Senegal and Marrakech, Morocco. Ellie has worked with High schools students across the United States in creating public art that visualizes mathematics and her ideas have been adapted for use in elementary and high school mathematics curriculum. Her work developed with her teaching partner Tricia Stanley (Brooklyn) in Visualizing Mathematics has been published nationally and internationally through the Bridges Conference (Sweden) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Connecticut, Chicago, New Orleans). She loves when she can use data as a tool to bring people together.  Her visualization workshops have strengthened groups with the Kemper Museum (St. Louis), teams within Google (New York), KOC school (Istanbul, Turkey) and with the National Academy of Design (New York). Ellie holds a Bachelors of Fine Art from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and a Masters of Fine Art from Pratt Institute. Episode NotesEllie | Website | Instagram | Twitter Related EpisodesEpisode #232: Stefanie Posavec and Sonja KuijpersEpisode #187: Stefanie Posavec & Miriam QuickEpisode #2: Dear DataiTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz Newsletter

Stefanie Posavec is a designer, artist, and author whose practice focuses on finding new, experimental approaches to communicating data and information. This work has been exhibited internationally at major galleries including the V&A, the Design Museum, Somerset House, and the Wellcome Collection (London), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and MoMA (New York). Her work is also in the permanent collection of MoMA. Besides her new book with Miriam, she has also co-authored two books that emphasise a more personal approach to data: Dear Data and the journal Observe, Collect, Draw!Sonja Kuijpers runs STUDIO TERP, her one-woman data illustration studio based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. She designs (data-)visualisations for a diversity of clients such as Scientific American, Philips, as well as small institutions, companies, and publishers. Recently the Climate Book by Greta Thunberg was published, for which Sonja (re-)designed the graphs. Experimenting with shapes and styles, she also designs her own independent dataviz and data art projects. She received an Information is Beautiful Gold Award in 2019 for her personal project ‘A View on despair’. Creating data visualisation, to Sonja, is trying to locate herself in the data, making sense of numbers with a human approach, showing insights as well as the aesthetics of information and data.Episode NotesStefanie | Web | TwitterSonja | Web | Twitter | IIB Award, A View on DespairWarming StripesI am a book. I am a portal to the universe. by Stefanie Posavec and Miriam QuickThe Climate Book, by Greta Thurnberg | Amazon US | Amazon UKRelated EpisodesEpisode #187: Stefanie Posavec & Miriam QuickEpisode #2: Dear DataiTunesSpotify