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Jon Schwabish | Economist, Data Visualization, and Presentation Specialist

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    • 4.8 • 45 Ratings

Jon Schwabish | Economist, Data Visualization, and Presentation Specialist

    Tracking Data Visualizations in Congress with Bill Gray

    Tracking Data Visualizations in Congress with Bill Gray

    William Gray is the guy behind Floor Charts, the website and Twitter feed that documents all things graphic in the US Congress. During the day, Bill oversees the strategic communications efforts at R Street [https://www.rstreet.org/people/william-gray/] and manages its growing Communications team, including overseeing the public relations, digital and events units. He joined the organization in 2020. Previously, William was communications director at Issue One, the leading cross partisan political reform group in Washington, where he helped launch and executive produce the first conservative political reform podcast, Swamp Stories [http://www.swampstories.org/]. Prior to Issue One, he managed press and negotiated news partnerships as the media relations specialist for the Center for Public Integrity, one of the oldest nonprofit investigative newsrooms in the country; and was a producer at C-SPAN, delivering daily public affairs programming and coverage of Congress and the White House to viewers around the world.

    Check out more links, notes, transcript, and more at the PolicyViz website. [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-244-maureen-stone/]

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    • 55 min
    Be a Better Presenter with Andrea Pacini

    Be a Better Presenter with Andrea Pacini

    Andrea Pacini is the author of the best-selling book Confident Presenter, a presentation coach and Head of Ideas on Stage UK. He specializes in working with business owners, leaders and their teams who want to become more confident presenters. Since 2010 Ideas on Stage has worked with thousands of clients around the world, including organizations like Microsoft, Spotify, eBay, The World Bank and over 500 TEDx speakers. Andrea is on a mission to stop great ideas from failing just because of the way they are presented. His vision is to help hundreds of thousands of business leaders inspire their audiences, increase their influence, and make a positive impact in the world.

    Check out more links, notes, transcript, and more at the PolicyViz website. [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-244-maureen-stone/]

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    • 35 min
    Distorted Maps and Storytelling with Tomas Pueyo

    Distorted Maps and Storytelling with Tomas Pueyo

    Tomas Pueyo is the author of Uncharted Territories, a newsletter where he tries to deeply understand how the world works to understand where it's going and nudge it in the right direction. He became world viral with his COVID articles, notably The Hammer and the Dance. He has 75,000 readers, and 300,000 on Twitter. Before Uncharted Territories, he has worked in tech companies in Silicon Valley for 15 years.

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    Check out more links, notes, transcript, and more at the PolicyViz website. [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-247-tomas-pueyo/]

    • 38 min
    Doing Data Stuff for Money with Moxy Analytics co-founder Serena Roberts

    Doing Data Stuff for Money with Moxy Analytics co-founder Serena Roberts

    Running your own data literacy and data consulting shop is no easy task. And helping customers not only build better visualizations and dashboards, but helping them create a better (or new) data culture is even harder. But Serena Roberts and her team at Moxy Analytics [https://www.moxyanalytics.com/] has been fighting that good fight for a few years now. Serena and I talk about what Moxy is up to, how to build better data teams, getting over imposter syndrome, and much, much more.

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    Check out more links, notes, transcript, and more at the PolicyViz website. [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-246-serena-roberts/]

    • 39 min
    Data Physicalization with the 'Making with Data' author team

    Data Physicalization with the 'Making with Data' author team

    Creating data visualizations in the physical world is not a new phenomenon. Humans have been drawing on walls, tallying money and crops, and carving on stone tablets for thousands of years. Today, though the practice of data visualization is largely done in the digital world, there is an exciting area of working in the physical space--the real world, as it were--to create, share, and communicate data and information. That brings us to the exciting new book, Making with Data [https://amzn.to/3rk2IXU], that provides a snapshot of the diverse practices contemporary creators are using to produce objects, spaces, and experiences imbued with data. In this week's episode of the podcast, I chat with the editors of the book to get their take on this exciting field.

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    Check out more links, notes, transcript, and more at the PolicyViz website. [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-244-maureen-stone/]

    • 53 min
    Maureen Stone tells you all about color in data visualization

    Maureen Stone tells you all about color in data visualization

    Welcome back to a whole new season of the PolicyViz Podcast! I'm excited to bring you a whole new exciting slate of guests this year covering a huge array of data visualization and data communication strategies, technologies, and techniques.

    Maureen Stone (Tableau Research) has been involved with Tableau since 2004, when she was asked to design the initial data colors for Tableau 1.5. She joined the company in late 2011 and became a founding member of the Research Team in 2012. As a member of Tableau Research, she continued her work on optimizing the use of color in visualization.  She served as research director (2017-2021), and has recently retired (June, 2022). While best known for her expertise in digital color, she has a broad experience in information visualization, interactive graphics and user interface design. She is a member of the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy [https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/awards/visualization-academy/] and the author of A Field Guide to Digital Color [https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Digital-Color/dp/1568811616/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469828951&sr=8-1&keywords=A+field+guide+to+digital+color].

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    Check out more links, notes, transcript, and more at the PolicyViz website. [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-244-maureen-stone/]

    • 47 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
45 Ratings

45 Ratings

Rnigel ,

Forever great

Wow! Who else but Jon could keep this up for 8 years! Fantastic stuff! Can’t wait for season NINE!

chrismv202 ,

Policy viz is great!!

Jon is a great host, very articulate, and very personable! As a data scientist, I love getting my weekly dose in the data and policy viz fields from Jon and his guests

caldwellinva ,

Great podcast!!

Always look forward to Jon Schwabish’s podcast ... diverse collection of guests and something new to learn every time!! A must if you are interested in data visualization.

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