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Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic tells stories with data. She is SWD CEO and author of the brand new book storytelling with you: plan, create, and deliver a stellar presentation and best-selling books storytelling with data: let’s practice! and storytelling with data: a data visualization guide for business professionals, which has been translated into a dozen languages, used as a textbook by more than 100 universities and serves as the course book for tens of thousands of SWD workshop participants. For more than a decade, Cole and her team have delivered interactive learning sessions sought after by data-minded individuals, companies, and philanthropic organizations all over the world. They also help people create graphs that make sense and weave them into compelling stories through the popular SWD community, blog, podcast and videos.Episode NotesStorytelling with DataStorytelling with YouBooksStorytelling with You: Plan, Create, and Deliver a Stellar PresentationStorytelling with Data: Let’s Practice! Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business ProfessionalsBetter Presentations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and WonksRelated EpisodesEpisode #24: Cole Nussbaumer KnaflicEpisode #141: Tapestry Roundup with Cole Nussbaumer KnafliciTunesSpotify

Richard Brath is a long time visualization designer, researcher and strategist. At Uncharted Software, Richard focuses on the creation of high-value visual analytic applications that solve real-word problems in capital markets, supply chain and healt-care analytics. These solutions in use by hundreds of thousands of users around the world every day.Richard is also actively involved with the visualization research community, and has authored two books on data visualization: Graph Analysis and Visualization, together with David Jonker (Wiley 2015); and Visualizing with Text (AK Peters, 2020). Richard’s personal blog on visualization is at richardbrath.wordpress.com and he is on Twitter @rkbrath.Episode NotesVisualizing with Text Book companion siteThe textual hierarchical table of contents to CyclopaediaRelated EpisodesEpisode #205: Steve Franconeri and Jen Christiansen a VisComm WorkshopEpisode # 199: Miriah MeyerEpisode # 198: Scott BerkuniTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle Podcasts

Danielle Alberti is the data visualization editor at Axios. She was previously a front-end web developer at Pew Research Center and is a journalism and anthropology graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder. She worked her way through nearly every newsroom job (including paper delivery) before landing in data visualization, where she very happily manages a team of ten amazing developer-designers to make news every day.This week’s episode marks the Season 8 finale! I’ll be back in the fall with more great episodes from data visualization and data communication experts and enthusiasts. Thanks to everyone who listened and supported the show this past year. And thanks to the team of folks who help me put it together–from sound and video editing to design to marketing to transcription. If you’d like to keep up with me and learn more about how to effectively communicate your work, check out my newsletter or my Winno community (where, next week, I’ll be giving away a bunch of great books!). Episode NotesDanielle | Website | TwitterAxios HomepageAxios: 1 million deathsMidterm elections 2022: The issues that matter to AmericansLe Monde map of the 2020 US presidential electionDatawrapperSveltePew Research CenterRelated EpisodesEpisode #213: Elevate Your DataViz TeamiTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneIn

Aliza Aufrichtig is a graphics and multimedia editor at The New York Times. In addition to covering the coronavirus and elections, she designs and develops stories that demand a bespoke form, often with audio and video. She’s created and maintains several popular websites and tools: Discover Quickly, a way to find new music very, very fast; an e-bike finder for New York City; and a spreadsheet-based period tracker for people with periods who want to own their own data. Episode Notes Aliza on Twitter NYT COVID trackerNYT: Voices of a Grieving NationNYT: How America Lost One Million PeopleNYT: 1 Million Deaths, 13 Last MessagesNYT: Podcast Voices NYT: When a Search Crosses the LineNYT: How China Spreads its Propaganda Version of Life in Xinjiang Washington Post: Cut ShortThe Daily PodcastLoud Numbers Podcast Svelte Related Episodes Episode #194: Charlie Smart iTunes Spotify Stitcher

Duncan Clark is a co-founder of the data and storytelling tool Flourish, which is now part of the Canva family. By background a data-driven author, journalist and publisher. In this week’s episode of the podcast, I talk to Duncan about the Flourish team and how they keep up with current trends, what the Canva acquisition means, and what the future looks like.Episode NotesDuncan Clark | Website | TwitterCanvaFlourish Draw the line template Bar chart races template SDK (Github)Mike BostockThe Guardian, Data VisualizationsMarimekko Charts – Video from the One Chart at a Time seriesJohn Burn-Murdoch on ObservableiTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeNew Ways to Support the Show!With more than 200 guests and eight seasons of epis

Michael Friendly is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Professor of Psychology, founding Chair of the graduate program in Quantitative Methods at York University, and an Associate Coordinator with the Statistical Consulting Service. He received his doctorate in Psychology from Princeton University, specializing in Psychometrics and Cognitive Psychology.In addition to his research interests in psychology, Professor Friendly has broad experience in data analysis, statistics, and computer applications. He is the author of Discrete Data Analysis with R: Visualization and Modeling Techniques four Categorical and Count Data. He is also the author of SAS for Statistical Graphics, 1st Edition and Visualizing Categorical Data, both published by SAS Institute, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and Statistical Science His recent work includes the further development of graphical methods for categorical data and multivariate linear models, as well as work on the history of data visualization.Howard Wainer is an independent statistician and author with experience in educational testing and data visualization. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1968. He has taught at The University of Chicago, Princeton University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He was employed by the Educational Testing Service from 1980 until 2001 and was the Distinguished Research Scientist at the National Board of Medical Examiners from 2001 until 2016. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and American Educational Research Association.Episode NotesMichael Friendly and Howard Wainer, A History of Data Visualization & Graphic CommunicationMichael Friendly GitHub | https://friendly.github.io/HistDataVis/Milestones Project: https://datavis.ca/milestones/Michael Friendly Site | https://www.datavis.ca/ John W. Tukey, Exploratory Data AnalysisSandra Rendgen, The Minard System: The Complete Graphics of Charles-Joseph MinardBrit Rusert, Silas Munro, W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black AmericaLeland Wilkinson, The Grammar of GraphicsIsabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Julie Terberg is the founder of Terberg Design, a creative studio focused on crafting presentations that better communicate with audiences.With decades of experience in the presentation industry, Julie has trusted partnerships with other presentation professionals and valued clients around the world. Since 2005, she has been recognized as a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP for her contributions to the presentation community. Julie enjoys teaching others at industry conferences, including the Presentation Summit and the Present to Succeed conference. She served as a founding director of the Presentation Guild and cohost of the Inspired by Design webinar series, exclusively for Guild members. A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP since 2000, Echo Swinford began her PowerPoint career in 1997. She holds a master’s degree in new media from Indiana University and is the owner of Echosvoice, a PowerPoint consulting firm specializing in custom template development, presentation creation, makeovers and cleanup, and training for large and small corporate clients. Echo has written and co-written five PowerPoint books, developed a number of video publications, and has a string of tech editing credits to her name. With co-author Julie Terberg, she recently released the definitive guide to PowerPoint template development: Building PowerPoint Templates v2.Echo is President Emerita of the Presentation Guild, a not-for-profit trade association for the presentation industry which she founded in 2015. Visit Echo’s Web site at www.echosvoice.com. Julie and Echo’s new book, Building PowerPoint Templates, version 2, is available on Amazon.Episode NotesJulie Terberg | Website | Twitter | LinkedInEcho Swinford | Website | Twitter | LinkedInA Guide to Cloud Fonts in Microsoft Office 365 (Updated April 2022)Presentation GuildRelated EpisodesEpisode #214: Karla StarrEpisode # 198: Scott BerkunEpisode #62: Garr ReynoldsiTunesSpotify

Dr. Claire McKay Bowen is a principal research associate in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population and leads the Statistical Methods Group at the Urban Institute. Her research focuses on developing and assessing the quality of differentially private data synthesis methods and science communication. She holds a BS in mathematics and physics from Idaho State University and an MS and PhD in statistics from the University of Notre Dame. After completing her PhD, she worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she investigated cosmic ray effects on supercomputers.In 2021, the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies identified her as an emerging leader in statistics for her “contributions to the development and broad dissemination of Statistics and Data Science methods and concepts, particularly in the emerging field of Data Privacy, and for leadership of technical initiatives, professional development activities, and educational programs.”Episode NotesClaire on TwitterClaire at the Urban InstituteClaire’s personal website: https://clairemckaybowen.com/Protecting Your Privacy in a Data-Driven WorldBook page: https://clairemckaybowen.com/book/Data4KidsOverview of GDPROne Nation, Tracked. Story from the New York TimesNetFlix Cancels Recommendation Contest After Privacy LawsuitiTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle Podcasts

Philip Bump is a correspondent for The Washington Post based in New York. He largely focuses on the numbers behind politics and he is the author of the weekly newsletter, How To Read This Chart.In this week’s episode of the show, Philip and I talk about his work at the Post, and dealing with all of the haters. We also talk about his work using data in the media and starting his new newsletter. Be sure to check out my new Winno community! Get great dataviz tips and tricks to your phone every week!Episode NotesPhilip Bump | Washington Post | TwitterHow to Read This Chart newsletterMentioned articles: Can Google searches predict where coronavirus cases will soon emerge? At the end of the second year of the pandemic, the effects are more obviously partisan than ever Which is easier in your state: Buying a rifle or voting?Adobe Creative CloudPerlRAWGraphsiTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle Podcasts

Karla Starr is a columnist for Medium and write the newsletter The Starr Report on Substack. She has appeared on NPR and CBS Sunday Morning and has written for The Atlantic, Slate, Popular Science, and The Guardian. She won an award for the Best Science/Health story from the Society of... The post Episode #214: Karla Starr appeared first on PolicyViz.