The PolicyViz Podcast

Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc is a House Staff Surgeon at the University of Michigan and Chief Medical Officer at HOK Architects. He completed his undergraduate and medical degrees education both with Ho…

Welcome back to the podcast! On this week’s episode, I sit down with three amazing people from different parts of the data visualization world to recap the 2018 OpenVisConf conference held in Paris, …

Alex Selby-Boothroyd joined The Economist as an interactive visual data journalist in 2015 and now runs the data journalism department. His team writes data-driven articles and creates all of the sta…

The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, hosted in the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University, empowers scientists and health professionals to communicate complex topics in clear, vivi…

Eileen Webb is a digital strategist and co-founder of webmeadow, a firm that helps progressive organizations develop content and technology strategies to make the world a better place. Her background…

Scott Murray is the Principal Learning Scientist at O’Reilly Media. Prior to that work, he was an Assistant Professor of Design at USF. He works with code, data, and computation to design learning ex…

Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, and branding pro, and works with individuals and organizations to help nail their messaging and engage clients, customers, and fans. Her TEDx talk…

On this week’s episode of the podcast, I’m joined by two guests to talk about gender discrimination in the field of economics. Erin Hengel is an assistant professor of Economics at the University of …

Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami. He teaches data visualization and infographics in our Journalism and Interactive Media Masters programs, and he is a…

Emma Bannister is the founder and CEO of Presentation Studio, a presentation-design firm based in in Sydney, Australia. Emma has designed presentations for banks, technology firms, and others to help…

From chemist to artist to designer, Stephy Lewis used to be a total Adobe snob until she was thrust into the world of presentation design. Ever since, she’s been passionately evangelizing the field i…

Steve Haroz is a postdoc researcher at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. His research explores how the brain perceives and understands visually displayed information like charts and infogra…

George Johnston is the founder of Nitrous, a platform to help startup companies collaborate with governments to ensure more sustainable and cost effective innovation. They also help government open a…

On last week’s episode, I sat outside Facebook and chatted with Andy Kirk about our experience at the Social Science Foo Camp, a two-and-a-half day conference at Facebook that brought together all so…

I just returned from a 10-day data visualization trek from DC to New York to San Francisco to Los Angeles where I talk workshops, gave talks, and attended the Social Science Foo Camp at Facebook. Soc…

Michael Gonchar and Sharon Hessney lead a new project at the New York Times called “What’s Going On in This Graph?” (WGOITG). Every second Tuesday of every month, the NYT publishes a graphic on a top…

We take a turn towards public policy and communicating research in this week’s episode of the podcast. My guest is my Urban Institute colleague Len Burman, an Institute Fellow and the Paul Volcker Pr…

Len Kiefer is the Deputy Chief Economist at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, better known, as Freddie Mac. Freddie Mac is the government sponsored enterprise that helps keep mortgage money…

Ben Welsh is the editor of the Data Desk at the LA Times (@LATdatadesk), a team of reporters and computer programmers in the newsroom that works to collect, organize, analyze and present large amount…

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you were able to enjoy some R&R, and spend some time with friends and family. To kick of a great new slate of guests in 2018, I’m very excited to welcome Jenn Schiffe…