The PolicyViz Podcast

For the final episode of 2017, I’m super excited to chat with my old friendAndy Kirk from Visualising Data. You undoubtedly know Andy from his website, books, presentations, Twitter feed, monthly rou…

Jane Pong is a Data Visualization Journalist at the Financial Times. Previously, she produced information graphics at Thomson Reuters in Singapore and South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. She is a …

On this week’s episode of the podcast, I welcome two special guests, Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, authors of the new biography of Claude Shannon, the father of information theory. Jimmy Soni has serve…

Kenton Powell is the Head of Design and Graphics at Vice News, a somewhat new venture from Vice and now showing on HBO. Prior to Vice, Kenton was a designer at Bloomberg Business Week and then an int…

Matt Abrahams is the author of the book Speaking Up without Freaking Out: 50 Techniques for Confident and Compelling Presenting which can help you address your presentation anxieties. Matt teaches St…

Francis Gagnon is founder of the Voilà data analytics and visualization firm. He has worked in reporting and information design at the international level for the last decade. At the International Fi…

You know Severino Ribecca. He’s the one who runsThe Data Visualisation Catalogue, a library of different information visualisation types. Sev and I have also worked together for a few years developin…

Diana Yoo has over ten years of experience as an information graphic designer and as an art director/design director. As the Art and Creative Director at the Pew Research Center, Diana lead a multidi…

Welcome to the 100th episode of the PolicyViz Podcast! 100 episodes! More than 100 guests spanning more than 33 hours to bring you the best of data visualization, open data, storytelling, and present…

Cambria Brown is a Performance Management and Data Specialist with the Office of Planning, Partnerships and Improvement at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. She specializes in…

Mark Monmonier is a Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. In the data visualization field, he is probably best known for his fantastic book, How to Lie wi…

Working together,  Tom Weatherburn and William Davis run the mapTO website a project where they make maps of Toronto and the surrounding areas. I found their project on rescaling the Toronto subway s…

Neil Halloran is one of those people who, in my mind, is pushing the data visualization field in different directions. In his two data-driven documentaries, The Fallen and The Shadow Peace, Neil uses…

Hi everyone, welcome back! I’m excited to have Jen Golbeck on this week’s episode. Jen is a world leader in social media research and science communication. She is a pioneer in the field of social da…

Welcome back to the show! To get you ready for the September 23rd National Day of Civic Hacking, I’m very happy to have Lilian Coral on this week’s episode. At the time of this interview in late Augu…

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I’m back! After a few weeks off this summer to enjoy the nice weather and time with the family, I’m excited to be back with a whole new slate of guests. Over th…

Hi everyone, welcome back to the show! This will be the last episode for the summer. I’m going to take a break from podcasting for the next two months, do some writing, relaxing, and traveling, and g…

Welcome back to this week’s show! This week, I speak with Shomik Sarkar, who is currently a data scientist at the Democratic National Committee and was Director of Reporting for Hillary Clinton’s cam…

I hope you’ve enjoyed the last few episodes of the podcast. Continuing a theme that has been present in the last few episodes, on this week’s show I welcome Javier Zarracina from Vox and Anna Flagg f…

In this week’s episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I’m joined by Priya Krishnakumar, a visual/data journalist at the LA Times. I’m a big fan of Priya’s work and her colleagues at the LA Times. For me i…