The Math Behind Beautiful Color: David Aerne on Building Open-Source Color Tools
Welcome to the final episode of Season #12 of the PolicyViz Podcast! Thanks so much for checking out the show this season and I hope you enj...
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20 of 313 episodesFrom Homework to Portfolio: NYC Open Data in the Classroom
Welcome back to the show! In this week's episode, I chat with Christian Martinez, a faculty member at Brooklyn College and several other CUN...
Outlier 2026: What to Expect at This Year's Data Visualization Society Conference
Episode #310! This week I sit down with Jennifer Roscoe and Shrishti Vaish, two of the key organizers behind Outlier 2026, the annual data v...
Reimagining Civic Participation: The Digital Democracy Project
I talk with Ramon Perez, Executive Director of the Digital Democracy Project this week. DDP is a nonpartisan nonprofit using secure mobile v...
Mapping the Invisible: Inside the Atlas of Macroscopes
Welcome back to the show! This week, I sit down with three co-authors of the Atlas of Macroscopes—Katy Borner, Elizabeth Record, and Todd Th...
Data Vandals: Taking Data Visualization Off the Screen and Into the Streets
In this episode, I sat down with Jen Ray and Jason Forrest—the married duo behind Data Vandals—to talk about their remarkable approach to br...
Why Government Makes Things Hard: Don Moynihan on Administrative Burden
In this episode, I chat with Don Moynihan, professor of public policy at the University of Michigan and author of the widely-read Substack n...
AI, Dashboards, and Human Decisions: A Conversation with Melanie Tory
In this week’s episode, I talk with Melanie Tory, Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University, about how people actually use dashbo...
From PDFs to Pit Lane: Building a Real-Time Data Product for McLaren Racing
In this week’s episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with Michael Gethers, former Head of Data & Strategy for the McLaren IndyCar team, a...
The People's Data: Why Federal Data Matters More Than Ever with Nick Hart
In this episode, I talk with Nick Hart, President and CEO of the Data Foundation, about the rapidly changing landscape of federal data, stat...
Dashboards That Deliver: A Conversation with Amanda Makulec
In this episode, I talk with Amanda Makulec about what it really takes to design dashboards and data products that people can understand and...
The Future of America's Data: Policy, Risk, and Resilience with Denice Ross
In this episode, I talk with Denice Ross about the fragile state of federal data and her new work at DataIndex. We discuss how the removal,...
Before & After: Inside the New Book from the Storytelling with Data Team
In this episode, I’m joined by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic and Mike Cisneros from Storytelling with Data to talk about their new book, Before &...
Radical Cartography: What Maps Show, What They Hide, and Why It Matters
In this episode, I sit down with Bill Rankin, historian of science at Yale and author of Radical Cartography , to unpack what maps really do...
Why Federal Statistics Matter: Rob Santos on Trust, Data Integrity, and the Future of the Census
This is the final episode of 2026! I hope you have enjoyed the show this year and also hope you have a great holiday season and happy new ye...
Flourish, Canva, and the Future of Data Storytelling: Duncan Clark Returns to the Podcast
In this episode, I’m thrilled to welcome back Duncan Clark from Flourish and Canva to talk about the incredible evolution of both tools over...
Inside IEEEVIS 2025: Key Themes, Best Papers, and the Future of Visualization
In this episode, I sit down with Alvitta Ottley and Paul Parsons to recap everything that happened at the 2025 IEEE VIS Conference in Vienna...
Exploring Creative Data Visualization with Nadieh Bremer
In this episode, I sit down with Nadieh Bremer to talk about her new book, Chart, and the creative process behind her data visualization wor...
The Future of Dashboards, Data Apps, and AI with Plotly's Chris Parmer
In this week’s episode, I talk with Chris Parmer, co-founder of Plotly, about how the company is integrating AI into the next generation of...
Beyond the Visual: How Tactile Maps Expand Data Accessibility
In this week’s episode, I welcome Jakub Wabiński and Vincent van Altena to the show to talk about their new book, Tactile Mapping . We explo...