The PolicyViz Podcast

In this week’s episode, I start to celebrate my new book, Elevate the Debate: A Multilayered Approach to Communicating Your Research. Co-authored with my colleagues in the communications department a…

Dr. Jessica Witt is a Professor in Psychology at Colorado State University.  Dr. Witt received her Ph.D from the University of Virginia in 2007, and has been at CSU since 2012. Dr. Witt recently won …

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had some time to rest and relax with friends and family. Thanks for tuning into the show. On this week’s episode, I’m excited to chat with Amelia Wattenberger, a …

Cheers to the last episode of The PolicyViz Podcast for 2019! I’ll be taking a couple of weeks off before coming back with brand new episodes in January. In the meantime, please take a peek at my for…

Molly Bauch specializes in business transformation, innovation, and strategic communications. She has more than 15 years’ consulting experience helping clients launch new programs, transform service …

I try to spend time watching great speeches. It helps inform how I give my own talks and how I think about teaching others. This past week, I watched Sacha Baron Cohen’s remarks at the Anti-Defamatio…

With a decade of experience as User eXperience Designer, Stéphanie Walter helps her clients in the banking, healthcare, automotive and financial industry deliver successful projects to their audience…

Robert Simmon is a data visualizer and designer working with Planet. He focuses on producing visualizations that are elegant and easily understandable, while accurately presenting the underlying data…

Kenneth Field is a ‘cartonerd’ with a Bachelors degree in cartography and PhD in GIS. A former academic who grew tired of admin, he ditched his 20 year career, moved to the US, and talks and writes a…

Sandra Rendgen is an author, consultant and concept developer with a focus on data visualization, interactive media and the history of infographics. She is the author of several books about historica…

Ronald L. (Ron) Wasserstein is the executive director of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and he joins me this week on the podcast to talk about the 2020 Census. In this role at the ASA, Wa…

Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I hope you had a great summer and got some time to rest and relax. I’m really excited for this season of the show–I’ve got some great guests lined up to talk ab…

Ben Jones is the founder and CEO of Data Literacy, a training and education company that’s on a mission to help people learn the language of data. Ben is a highly experienced and passionate instructo…

Part of the FT’s interactive news team, John-Burn Murdoch works as a journalist alongside developers and designers to produce a mix of long term data-driven projects and same day interactive news sto…

Michael Kubovy is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Virginia. His publications in cognitive science span the fields of decision-making, visual and auditory perception, the psychol…

Claus O. Wilke is a computational and evolutionary biologist and chair of the Department of Integrative Biology at University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Dwight W. and Blanche Faye Reeder Cen…

Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University and the author of six books, including Deep Work and So Good They Can’t Ignore You. You won’t find him on Twitter, F…

Kassia St Clair is a writer based in London. She studied women’s dress and eighteenth-century masquerade at the University of Bristol and Oxford.She has since written about design and culture for pub…

Welcome back to this, the 150th episode of the PolicyViz Podcast! With four years of episodes (almost to the day!), I’ve had a lot of fun bringing you insights from people all across the globe doing …

Michael Freeman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington Information School, where he teaches courses in data science, interactive data visualization, and web development. Prior to his te…