When it comes to creating visualizations with your data, it’s not the tool that “makes” things, it’s the user. I’ve heard lots of people say that Excel makes terrible data visualizations. It’s true t…
Published on 10 years, 3 months ago
What’s the best way to teach data visualization? How do you mix theory and practical applications? What tool or tools should you teach: Tableau, Excel, d3, Processing, something else? Scott Murray, A…
Published on 10 years, 3 months ago
In this week’s episode, I chat with Nick Diakopoulos from the University of Maryland at College Park. Nick recently co-hosted an event on algorithmic transparency at the Tow Center for Digital Journa…
Published on 10 years, 3 months ago
In this week’s episode, I speak with color-guru Rob Simmon from Planet Labs. If you don’t know Rob, you should absolutely read is famous 6-part series on color hosted at the Visual.ly blog. Nowadays,…
Published on 10 years, 3 months ago
In the previous episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I spoke with Maral Pourkazemi about the DeepLab project. That discussion was so interesting, we pulled in instigator Addie Wagenknecht to talk more a…
Published on 10 years, 4 months ago
There are important and consequential issues to discuss when it comes to technological differences and disparities across different groups such as gender, race, ethnicities, or differences across cou…
Published on 10 years, 4 months ago
We’ve seen some big changes in data driven journalism over the past year or so with new media companies like 538, Vox, and the Upshot launching. In this fourth episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I spe…
Published on 10 years, 4 months ago
Thanks so much for tuning into the first two episodes of the PolicyViz Podcast. On this week’s episode, I welcome Eric Klotz, founder of Visualized, to discuss the challenges and excitement around da…
Published on 10 years, 4 months ago
On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I speak with Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec about their current project, Dear Data. If you haven’t seen it, Dear Data is a year-long analog project…
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
Welcome to the PolicyViz Podcast! That’s right, I’m moving my random audio blob posts to a more structured podcast. In these podcasts, I will chat with my guests primarily about data visualization, p…
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
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