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Ethan Mollick is an Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship. He is also the author of The Unicorn’s Shadow: Combating the Dangerous Myths that Hold Back Startups, Founders, and Investors. His papers have been published in top management journals and have won multiple awards. His work on crowdfunding is the most cited article in management published in the last seven years.Prior to his time in academia, Ethan co-founded a startup company, and he currently advises a number of startups and organizations. As the Academic Director and cofounder of Wharton Interactive, he works to transform entrepreneurship education using games and simulations. He has long had interest in using games for teaching, and he co-authored a book on the intersection between video games and business that was named one of the American Library Association’s top 10 business books of the year. He has built numerous teaching games, which are used by tens of thousands of students around the world.Episode NotesEthan’s UPenn WebsiteEthan’s Personal WebsiteEthan on TwitterDall-E TweetGoogle Drive folder with Ethan’s Dall-E imagesWharton Interactive2022 Hugo AwardsRelated EpisodesEpisode #121: Erin Hengel and Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamEpisode #4: Ben CasselmaniTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle Podcasts

Max Kuhn is a software engineer at RStudio. He is currently working on improving R’s modeling capabilities and maintains about 30 packages, including caret. He was a Senior Director of Nonclinical Statistics at Pfizer Global R&D in Connecticut. He was applying models in the pharmaceutical and diagnostic industries for over 18 years. Max has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics. He, and Kjell Johnson, wrote the book Applied Predictive Modeling, which won the Ziegel award from the American Statistical Association, which recognizes the best book reviewed in Technometrics in 2015. Their second book, Feature Engineering and Selection, was published in 2019 and his book with Julia Silge, Tidy Models with R, was published in 2022.Episode NotesWebsite at RStudio: https://www.rstudio.com/authors/max-kuhn/Twitter: https://twitter.com/topeposGithub: https://github.com/topepo R Packages:autoMLcaretQuartoRMarkdowntidymodelstidyverseBooks from Max:Tidy Modeling with R: A Framework for Modeling in the TidyverseApplied Predictive ModelingFeature Engineering and SelectionR for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data by Garrett Grolemund and Hadley WickhamRelated EpisodesEpisode #225: Julia SilgeEpisode #212: Dr. Cedric SchererEpisode #210: Dr. Tyler Morgan-WallEpisode #207: Tom MockEpisode #150: Learning REpisode #69: Hadley WickhamiTunes

Abby Covert is an information architect, writer and community organizer with two decades of experience helping people make sense of messes. In addition to being an active mentor to those new to sensemaking, she has also served the design community as President of the Information Architecture Institute, co-chair of Information Architecture Summit, and Executive Producer of the I.D.E.A Conference. Abby is a founding faculty member of School of Visual Arts’ Products of Design graduate program. She also managed the team that helped Rosenfeld Media to start both the Design Operations Summit and Advancing Research Conference. Her most proud achievement is having come up with the idea for World Information Architecture Day, bringing accessibly priced education to thousands in their local communities annually. In addition to running events, you may have seen her presenting her work on stage at: Blend, Business to Buttons, Confab, Creative Mornings, Designing for Digital, EdUI, EMACTL, EuroIA, Generate, GIANT, IA Summit, IA Conference, Italian IA Conference, Interactions, Midwest UX, Mind the Product, Momentum, Plain Language Summit, SearchLOVE, STC Summit, TalkUX, UI21, UI22, UX Cambridge, UX Ottawa, UX Lisbon, UX Tokyo, UX Week, Webstock, Wharton Web Conference, World IA Day Abby has written two books for her students. In 2014 she published How to Make Sense of Any Mess, a book to teach IA to everybody. In 2022, she released her much anticipated follow-up, Stuck? Diagrams Help. She currently spends her time making things that help you to make the unclear, clear, many of which she makes available for free on her website abbycovert.com or at accessible price points in her popular Etsy shop AbbytheIA.Abby lives and writes from Melbourne, Florida where her most important job title is ‘Mom’.Episode NotesProducts & Guides for SensemakersHow to Make Sense of Any MessSTUCK? Diagrams HelpMy Monthly Email ListRelated EpisodesEpisode #223: Cole Nussbaumer KnaflicEpisode #203: Alli TorbanEpisode #198: Scott BerkunEpisode #145: RJ AndrewsEpisode #2: Dear DataiTunesSpotify

Julia Silge is a data scientist and software engineer at RStudio PBC where she works on open source modeling tools. She is an author, an international keynote speaker, and a real-world practitioner focusing on data analysis and machine learning. Julia loves text analysis, making beautiful charts, and communicating about technical topics with diverse audiences.xEpisode Noteshttps://juliasilge.com/https://www.tidymodels.org/https://www.tmwr.org/https://smltar.com/https://vetiver.rstudio.com/Related EpisodesEpisode #207: Tom Mock Episode #201: Leland WilkinsonEpisode #69: Hadley WickhamEpisode #212: Cedric SchereriTunesSpotifyStitcherTuneInGoogle PodcastsPolicyViz NewsletterYouTubeNew 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 tex

Pieta Blakely, PhD helps mission-based organizations measure their impact so that they can do what they do well. She started her nonprofit career as a teacher in workforce development and adult basic education. It was important work and she was worried that they didn’t really know if they were doing it well. In the process of trying to answer that question, Pieta got a Masters in Education and a PhD in Social Policy, and became an evaluator.Pieta has been an evaluator for over fifteen years, the past five of those as a consultant helping mission-based organizations use evaluation to build better and more effective programs. She believes that evaluation isn’t a test, it’s an ongoing process of trying things, measuring the results, and making adjustments. Her goal is to help build organizational cultures that thrive on joyful accountability and doing important work well.Pieta is known for explaining complicated things clearly, an emphasis on ethics and justice in evaluation, an understanding of how not-for-profits work, and her unpredictable efforts in vegan and wheat-free baking.You can read her blog at pietablakely.com or watch her live show, Coffee Time with Masterminds, where she talks about leading mission-based organizations through uncertain times.Eli Holder is a dataviz designer, researcher, and founder of 3iap, a data visualization design firm. 3iap (3 is a pattern) specializes in psychologically effective information design, approachable analytics, and developing human-centered data products. If you’re a data designer, journalist, or analyst, Eli’s Equity-Oriented Dataviz Workshop can quickly teach your team how to visualize data on inequality, without reinforcing inequality. This covers not only his recent research, but also the underlying psychology and alternative design approaches to conventional (harmful) visualizations of racial outcome disparities. Episode Notes Eli on Twitter Pieta on Twitter What can go wrong? Exploring racial equity dataviz and deficit thinking, with Pieta Blakely and Eli Holder Eli will present his paper (co-authored with Cindy Xiong) in October, at IEEE VIS 2022, but you can find a preview of the findings here: “Dispersion vs Disparity” Research Results: How masking uncertainty encourages stereotyping when visualizing social outcome disparities.  Presenting data for a Targeted Universalist approach Pieta and Eli discuss data viz and equity: https://youtu.be/EcCRUXlgoOc

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