Making Nonprofit Work Easier with David Watters
In this episode, I talk with David Watters about making everyday work easier for nonprofits. We explore how side spreadsheets, repetitive re...
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Jon Schwabish | Economist, Data Visualization, and Presentation Specialist
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My Favorite Graphs: Driving Safety, In Fits and Starts
In this My Favorite Graphs episode, I revisit Hannah Fairfield's 2012 New York Times graphic, Driving Safety, in Fits and Starts. I explain...
Mike "SullyDawg" Sullivan: Explaining Trillion-Dollar Budgets with Solo Cups
In this week's episode of the show, I talk with Mike "SullyDawg" Sullivan, the viral creator behind the cup pyramid videos that turn massive...
My Favorite Graphs: Stronger Together from The New York Times
In this My Favorite Graphs episode, I revisit a 2016 New York Times visualization comparing the convention speeches of Donald Trump and Hill...
Playfair, Power, and the People Behind the Data: Lauren Klein on Data by Design
Lauren Klein joins me to talk about her new book, Data by Design [https://link.amazon/B01DQgByh], co-authored with a team of student collabo...
My Favorite Graphs: The Guardian's "Bussed Out"
This week I kick off a new series on the show: My Favorite Graphs. I'm going to walk through the projects that shaped how I think about data...
What Data Communicators Can Learn from Speech-Language Pathology
In this very special episode of the podcast, I talk with my wife, Lauren Schwabish, a speech-language pathologist who helps adults recover c...
New Season, New Format: Live Shows, Accessibility, and My Favorite Dataviz
Welcome back to Season 13 of the PolicyViz Podcast! In this quick solo kickoff, I walk you through everything I have planned this season, fr...
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...
From 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,...