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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.

On this week's episode, I chat with the four founding members of the new data visualization mentorship community, Elevate Your DataViz.The post Episode #213: Elevate Your DataViz Team appeared first on PolicyViz.

Dr. Cedric Scherer is a graduate computational ecologist with a passion for design. In 2020, he combined his expertise in analyzing and visualizing large data sets in R with his passion to become a freelance data visualization specialist.  Cédric has...The post Episode #212: Dr. Cedric Scherer appeared first on PolicyViz.

Jock D. Mackinlay is the first Technical Fellow at Tableau Software. He believes that well-designed software can help a wide-range of individuals and organizations work effectively with data, which will improve the world. He is an expert in visual analytics and human-computer...The post Episode #211: Jock D. Mackinlay appeared first on PolicyViz.

Dr. Tyler Morgan-Wall visits the PolicyViz Podcast to talk about 3D and animated 3D in data visualization. The post Episode #210: Dr. Tyler Morgan-Wall appeared first on PolicyViz.

Ken and Kevin Flerlage visit the PolicyViz Podcast to discuss Tableau and some of the challenges and successes they've had, and how you can go about using the free materials on their website.The post Episode #209: The Flerlage Twins appeared first on PolicyViz.